Silhouette challenge

[Ridge Runner]

ah well.... enjoy it!!!!!

[Lightning Mate]

We will. We have one nights' dinner booked at "15".

Musn't say more - the moderators might consider it advertising.

Where's hesham.....????

[mat777]

Apologies to Lightning Mate, sorry for bending the rules - it wont happen again

RegDep,
without hijacking hesham's control of the thread too much...
There are one or two silhouettes and and artists impression in existance on the web but I cannot remember now what keywords I used in Google to find them - the aircraft is unfortunate in sharing its name with a much more well known aircraft. It was one of the pet projects of a very eminent scientist.

Regards,

Matt

[Lightning Mate]

Apologies to Lightning Mate, sorry for bending the rules - it wont happen again

Nice to see you back mate - no problems.

One of our rules is that it must be imaged or referenced on the web so that everyone has a fair chance of finding it.

Please stay with us.

I rather think that, if we don't hear from hesham by some time this evening, I shall open house the thread. A dead thread is not fun at all and kills its' spirit.

LM

[dazdaz1]

Just passing by....I'm 'Biting at the bit' I have some good ones. But I must wait for the chance/win one challenges before posting.

Dazdaz (1)

[Lightning Mate]

OK guys - I've had enough of this!

OPEN HOUSE.

Bad luck hesham - stay with the thread spirit, and stop ing us about!

[RegDep]

My words exactly. As said before, I wouldn't object a six -hour rule. Legitimate reasons happen, too, and one should not deprive others of their fun for any reason.

[Lightning Mate]

nice call from my wingman............

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ninety port......go.............

[Lightning Mate]

.....sleeve..............................

[skytrain10]

Evening chaps. Well I finally manage to log on but no challenge despite some green lights....?

Edit, well looks like everyone has gone....kind of ironic after declaring Open House due no response from someone!

Flying home tomorrow so will look in again on Saturday. Night night.

[Lightning Mate]

Graeme.............??????

[hesham]

Again sorry for my late.

[SincoTC]

Originally Posted by hesham

Again sorry for my late

Well, thank you at least for coming back to apologise! However, you must appreciate that it was over ten hours since you posted what I'm pretty sure you knew was a correct answer and your return, during which time the thread was stopped and nobody could play. For all I know, you may well have intended to return much sooner and some unforseen circumstances prevented it, but seeing as this isn't the first time it's happened, I doubt that this was the case! The remedy is simple, all you have to do is to say when you post your answer "Open House please if correct" and the thread can then carry on without delay, as soon as the issuer of the challenge declares you the winner.

Also, If you want to play fully and issue a challenge, then you have to be prepared to stick around and monitor it, otherwise, as happened the other day, the thread is stalled again for hours and everyone gets upset, so play your part and we can all have fun

The guideline "Rules" are here if you need to check them http://www.pprune.org/aviation-histo...est-lists.html

[SincoTC]

OK, rant over!!

Good morning LM,

First time on the thread today (yesterday), been awful busy and only just got in!

I don't know of many twin-engine combat aircraft like this that only have a single fin, so is you're challenge an AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-kuo ??

[Lightning Mate]

Good morning to you TC.

Thanks for the rant support mate.

AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-kuo ??

Delete the question marks - 'coz 'tiz.

Over to you.

[SincoTC]

Good Morning and thanks LM,

I thought it could only be that 'coz of all the F-CK-1ng missiles hanging on it!!

Now for something a little more sedate!



Off to work in half an hour, will put light on again when I get there.

[SincoTC]

Just a test, I seem to have downloaded it, but I can't go to next page and If I repost it said it was a duplicate and spits it back. Maybe this'll unstick it!

Edited to say Yipee it did, but why does it always F-CK- you about when you're in a hurry

[Lightning Mate]

Looks fairly high aspect ratio with a small engine.

An early motor glider?

[SincoTC]

It's not classified as a motor-glider in my source, but as the intention was to minimise the cost of amateur flying, I guess it needed to be pretty efficient and somwhet miserly on power requirement.

PS. Got your 'phone message OK

[Lightning Mate]

Back to the drawing board then........