Miniature planes
 

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?

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":cool: :ok: :E

Sorry do not know the english word

Cherio Micky


Grat fun watching it at a display:D

I will try

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

od dear somebody help:confused:

There you go

http://images.airliners.net/photos/m...5/6/888657.jpg

Ads another dimension to the no-frills market ;)

Size does matter.....:}

Span
 

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

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

Ps The reg should have been G-SHAG

haha:}

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

Mad little plane!

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

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!

Hi Chaps,

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

Regards

Reggie AKA The Cameraman

Captive takeoff?
 

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

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.

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

http://www.airteamimages.com/imageFi.../18876_800.jpg

cheers

Paul

Stits Sky Baby
 

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