Heikkis' Silhouette Challenge
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Saiman 200?
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dook, Thanks. An interesting challenge and surprisingly, it was missing from my favourite reference book "Aircraft and the Air" by Eric Sargent.
No silhouette technology available so Open House.
No silhouette technology available so Open House.
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Here’s one that’s more modern.
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I had never heard of the Aermacchi AL.60 so I looked it up and discovered it is the same aircraft as the one I posted, which is the Lockheed-Azcarate (LASA) 60.
An interesting history - designed by Al Mooney when he was at Lockheed:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aermacchi_AL-60
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Quemerford has control.
An interesting history - designed by Al Mooney when he was at Lockheed:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aermacchi_AL-60
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Quemerford has control.
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Interesting to say the least.
Am I right in thinking that the aircrafts' right engine is on the fuselage ?
If so, then the strut between the two engines might be to improve torsional rigidity.
Am I right in thinking that the aircrafts' right engine is on the fuselage ?
If so, then the strut between the two engines might be to improve torsional rigidity.
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Anyone up for severe/ extreme asymmetrical flight?
Surely not dook. Unless some weird testing aircraft experiment gone wrong.
That's a trusy old PA-32 Seminole - if ever I've seen one - and I've flown it.
Oh sh1t - wait - that strut - and the tail wheel - not it's not.
Piper though...wait a minute...that's high-wing - hence dook's confusion...
Surely not dook. Unless some weird testing aircraft experiment gone wrong.
That's a trusy old PA-32 Seminole - if ever I've seen one - and I've flown it.
Oh sh1t - wait - that strut - and the tail wheel - not it's not.
Piper though...wait a minute...that's high-wing - hence dook's confusion...
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It looks like the mess you'd get if you crossed a Piper twin with a Cessna twin with some idiot adding "an extra leading edge" between the engines - and to stop them falling off.
I'm going to go back to original guess and say it's an Experimental prototype Piper.
Those are 360 Lyco's under those cowlings or I'll eat my hat.
I'm going to go back to original guess and say it's an Experimental prototype Piper.
Those are 360 Lyco's under those cowlings or I'll eat my hat.
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Looks a bit like a modified Do-28A?
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Helio Twin Courier!
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