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Ok...
Start looking in the sixties...
Er, nope, too fast (both max speed and stall speed are too high)
GW is well within limits, though.
Unsure about the propeller.
Start looking in the sixties...
Does it qualify as an LSA?
GW is well within limits, though.
Unsure about the propeller.
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No doubt the erstwhile gentlemen from Somerset and Pembrokeshire will pich up soon.........
Just knocking off and going home soon, is it the Turner T-40 Ophelia Bumps?? (weird name or what)!!
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Amended: found out (from another source) that engines up to 150hp were later fitted in some variants of the aircraft.
It has been sold as a plans for home building.
Apparently the three-view sketch portrays one of the prototypes, while the silhouette a recent (and I mean really recent!) instance...
It has been sold as a plans for home building.
Apparently the three-view sketch portrays one of the prototypes, while the silhouette a recent (and I mean really recent!) instance...
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Turner T-40 Ophelia Bumps
turner t40 - 3Views RC Model Airplanes Plans - Home - Free RC Plans
This is for LM: see when I told ya there was quite a variety of styles...
T-40 Photos
As for the number 9, you could try here:
9 (number) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a good number in Chinese culture because it sounds the same as the word "longlasting"
indeed, since you're only nine posts away from 7k...
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Evening LM ,
Wossa number nine all about then??
Ah, enlightenment, the magic 7k,
Thanks HP
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Still haven't had time to properly silhouette my next, so It'll have to do as it is! Won't be long
,Wossa number nine all about then??
Ah, enlightenment, the magic 7k,
Thanks HP
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Still haven't had time to properly silhouette my next, so It'll have to do as it is! Won't be long
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Nuffink mate - it's seven.....
....that will be a fighter pilot then...........
a good number in Chinese culture because it sounds the same as the word "longlasting"
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See what I mean - that's not a fighter pilot......
That's onother one down! A few ribald comments about the lack of a proper silhouette and you'll be there
....bugger.....
Wozzat designed for some kind of record?
Issa manned?
NB'd the hat of the sod on the left - East European....?
Wozzat designed for some kind of record?
Issa manned?
NB'd the hat of the sod on the left - East European....?
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Not built to chase a record mate!
It was military and looks like it had the right attitude for its intended role (its short career was ended by an unintended roll)!!
Not from Eastern Europe, but it did have a pilot!
Off now, back in about half an hour
It was military and looks like it had the right attitude for its intended role (its short career was ended by an unintended roll)!!
Not from Eastern Europe, but it did have a pilot!
Off now, back in about half an hour
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You got the nose down bit OK, but it's not a dive bomber and not from B & V
Yes, where was it HP
Edit: Well; that's not where I got it from, but it'll do!
It is the De Bruyère C-1 Canard
Like M. De Bruyère, I had high hopes for this one and some nice tasty clues lined-up
!! At least I can rertire to the kitchen now and lick my wounds 
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You got the nose down bit OK, but it's not a dive bomber and not from B & V
Seen this one...
Must remember where...
Must remember where...
Originally Posted by HP
Winchester, Jim - The World's Worst Aircraft, Grange Books, p.290
It is the De Bruyère C-1 Canard
The design of World War I aircraft was not supported by such things as wind tunnels, so much of aircraft design was “let’s build it and see if it works.”
One of the most interesting designs was by the French engineer Marcel de Bruyere – the de Bruyere C.1 “Canard” De Bruyere’s aircraft was an inverted “N” strutted biplane with an all-metal fuselage that looked very much like a motorcycle sidecar, smooth and streamlined with a large, single semi-recessed nose wheel and the two main wheels suspended below the lower wing in the middle of the fuselage, giving it a distinctive “nose down” attitude. The fuselage also had two large holes on either side of the pilot for downward visibility.
The large, one-piece, moveable canard was fitted in the extreme nose just in front of the pilot, and the aircraft was powered by a 150-horsepower Hispano-Suiza 8a engine buried in the center of the fuselage, with a long shaft driving a two-bladed pusher propeller in the rear. The nose-down attitude allowed the fitting of a large ventral fin and required a long tail skid to protect the propeller, but it may have been the final innovation on the Canard that was one too many. Instead of normal ailerons, the entire wing tip of the Canard rotated to provide, in theory, the same control as a conventional aileron.
The aircraft was intended to carry the large 37-millimeter Hotchkiss M1902 cannon, a single shot, shell-firing weapon intended for ground attack and to counter the new, very large German bombers that were entering service. The Hotchkiss could either fire a one-pound high explosive shell or a one-and-a-half-pound incendiary shell and, despite its slow rate of fire, had some success in combat on other French aircraft.
In April 1917, the Canard was brought to the French Air Force test field at Etampes, Belgium for its initial test flights. Unfortunately, on takeoff it climbed a few meters into the air and then rolled over and crashed. There is some debate about whether the ailerons were too sensitive and the pilot unintentionally rolled the aircraft or whether the tail skid prevented the aircraft from getting its nose up high enough for a proper takeoff (or both). In the event, the Canard was not rebuilt and the program abandoned.
One of the most interesting designs was by the French engineer Marcel de Bruyere – the de Bruyere C.1 “Canard” De Bruyere’s aircraft was an inverted “N” strutted biplane with an all-metal fuselage that looked very much like a motorcycle sidecar, smooth and streamlined with a large, single semi-recessed nose wheel and the two main wheels suspended below the lower wing in the middle of the fuselage, giving it a distinctive “nose down” attitude. The fuselage also had two large holes on either side of the pilot for downward visibility.
The large, one-piece, moveable canard was fitted in the extreme nose just in front of the pilot, and the aircraft was powered by a 150-horsepower Hispano-Suiza 8a engine buried in the center of the fuselage, with a long shaft driving a two-bladed pusher propeller in the rear. The nose-down attitude allowed the fitting of a large ventral fin and required a long tail skid to protect the propeller, but it may have been the final innovation on the Canard that was one too many. Instead of normal ailerons, the entire wing tip of the Canard rotated to provide, in theory, the same control as a conventional aileron.
The aircraft was intended to carry the large 37-millimeter Hotchkiss M1902 cannon, a single shot, shell-firing weapon intended for ground attack and to counter the new, very large German bombers that were entering service. The Hotchkiss could either fire a one-pound high explosive shell or a one-and-a-half-pound incendiary shell and, despite its slow rate of fire, had some success in combat on other French aircraft.
In April 1917, the Canard was brought to the French Air Force test field at Etampes, Belgium for its initial test flights. Unfortunately, on takeoff it climbed a few meters into the air and then rolled over and crashed. There is some debate about whether the ailerons were too sensitive and the pilot unintentionally rolled the aircraft or whether the tail skid prevented the aircraft from getting its nose up high enough for a proper takeoff (or both). In the event, the Canard was not rebuilt and the program abandoned.
Like M. De Bruyère, I had high hopes for this one and some nice tasty clues lined-up
!! At least I can rertire to the kitchen now and lick my wounds HappyPass has control
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