Miniature planes

[chornedsnorkack]

What are the successfully flown planes having miniature width?

From
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/design/q0214.shtml

the interesting ones:
Sky Baby - biplane, span 210 cm, first flown 1952, stays in a museum

Bumble Bee - biplane, span 200 cm, first flown 1984.

Baby Bird - monoplane, span 190 cm, first flown 1984.

So, can anyone add any more examples - planes with wingspan under 250 cm that have flown and not crashed? What is their performance in air? On landing? On takeoff? On taxiing?

[Micky]

Smallest twin

Hi there go to aliners.net
look up cri cri don't know how to post the link...
As far as I know smallest twin in the wourld...powerd by two lawnmower engines

It is fully "Kunstflugtauglich"

Sorry do not know the english word

Cherio Micky


Grat fun watching it at a display

I will try

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?i...next_id=418378

od dear somebody help

[amanoffewwords]

There you go



Ads another dimension to the no-frills market

[Micky]

Size does matter.....

[chornedsnorkack]

Span

The Cri-Cri is nice... Though I was looking especially for planes with short wingspan - under 250 cm.

[Micky]

sorry thought that the cri cri would be under 250cm...can't be much more...

Ps The reg should have been G-SHAG

haha

[Farrell]

Can remember one of those Cri-Cris crashing at the Fairyhouse Airshow sometime in the 1980's

Mad little plane!

[Oshkosh George]

Getting varied results, but the Cri Cri wingspan appears to be 4.9m,so nowhere near the thread discussion topic.

[treadigraph]

I seem to remember a pic in the EAA Museum of "Bumble Bee" flying over San Fran Bay with a P-51D formating in the background... was I dreaming...?

First time I saw a Cri-Cri was at the PFA in '83 - pilot was turning it upside down with abandon, can't say I thought it looked suited to such antics!

[The Cameraman]

Hi Chaps,

I remember the Cri Cri taking off from the roof of a Mitsubishi Shogun, hence the registration.

Regards

Reggie AKA The Cameraman

[chornedsnorkack]

Captive takeoff?

What was the airspeed where the Cri-Cri took off? And how was it attached to the Shogun?

[The Cameraman]

Hi There,

the Shogun had a roofrack attached, accelerated to around 50mph and the Cri Cri zoomed off! I remember a locking mechanism holding the aircraft to the rack, which was released when the pilot was ready.

It made a wonderful sight.

[APG]

Here's the Bumble Bee thats now in the Pima Museum at Davis Monthan



cheers

Paul

[barit1]

Stits Sky Baby

Here is the NASM website; the Sky Baby is on display at EAA museum, Oshkosh, WI.