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No cheating, name it!

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dunno, looks like something Q branch came up with it the 70s, love it 😃

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tbh that’s fairly normal compared to half of the things this guy manages to dig up! https://instagram.com/cessnateur?igshid=7362aveyz4v9

Posted 2 years ago

A quick google says it’s an Edgley optica, nice looking craft designed for slow speed flying

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quick google

I did say no cheating! Pub quiz rules!

Mashr, that’s awesome. Shall lose myself in there for a while!

Posted 2 years ago

Ain’t that Mark Hamill’s plane from Slipstream?

Posted 2 years ago

CaptainFlashheart

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Mashr, that’s awesome. Shall lose myself in there for a while!

You should probably set aside the rest of the day. Helps that the guy really knows his onions too

Posted 2 years ago

Perchy, there may have been some influence from it on the ‘bubbleship’ in Oblivion.

Posted 2 years ago

Shall lose myself in there for a while!

Not possible in this though:

Oh, from G-INFO that Optica is owned by John Edgley.

Posted 2 years ago

Why yes, yes it is….

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To make up for cheating

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Saw one of these at the Fleet Air Arm Museum last week.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westland_WS-51_Dragonfly#/media/File%3AWestland_Dragonfly_HR.3_WG723_706_Sq_BAG_20.08.55_edited-2.jpg

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😂

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I think I managed to out myself as an airplane nerd last time we did this, I’m staying away from this thread.

Wait…

Posted 2 years ago

I think hols 2 aircraft is America’s attempt at a vtol back in the day. It was a bit crap.

No idea of its name.

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Edit: better angle

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Sofamans aircraft is called a cri cri although nows probably a good time to declare I’m a light aircraft engineer lol .The cri cri I think is the world’s smallest manned twin engined aircraft I believe

Posted 2 years ago

@matt_outandabout Shorts Skyvan?

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Mat that’s a shorts skyvan easy peasy

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Convair Pogo stick from hols2.

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Real name please, not the nickname.

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And also this scary looking mo fo

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I seem to remember the cri cri was powered by two chainsaw engines.

Posted 2 years ago

mrmonkfinger

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Real name please, not the nickname.

Thrust Measuring Rig.

Posted 2 years ago

Spotters autogiro towed up behind ships?

Posted 2 years ago

That Edgley was all over the news when I was a kid, being both locally made and a bit crashy.

There was a jet version of the Cri Cri which always looked fun.

Posted 2 years ago

Sarumite, ajaj?

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The Flying Bedframe or something like that is its nickname I think.

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Ok, so the Shorts was easy, if still laughably odd dimensions…

How about this…

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I used to fly from Glasgow to Belfast semi-regularly in a Loganair Shorts 360.

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I used to fly from Glasgow to Belfast semi-regularly in a Loganair Shorts 360.

Ahh, the Shorts Ultra Shed, as opposed to the Super Shed and the basic Shorts Shed shown above.

Posted 2 years ago

think that was FIAT’s attempt at a helicopter

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This is a copy of a photo taken by my dad, I think at Farnborough, I dare say quite a few will recognise it…

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This is a copy of a photo taken by my dad, I think at Farnborough, I dare say quite a few will recognise it…

Chipmunk?

Posted 2 years ago

Gosh…without googling, that’s an Edgely (spelling?) Optica, a Ryan something silly or other, a Shorts Skyvan, Flying Bedstead – sorry wasn’t it a Bristol or RR testbed (Bristol designed the Pegasus engine, subsequently merged into RR) no idea as to the name, no bloody idea as to the helicopter but the fuselage is beautifully Bauhaus hmmm, prototype British (the serial places it circa mid fifties) R&D platform with a fat fuselage possibly (speculatively) containing lift-jets hence the mesh cover. The metalwork is god-awful, as befits a low volume prototype which would have possibly been farmed out to someone like Bolton & Paul or possibly Handley Page to knock together.

Posted 2 years ago

Convair, dammit. Not Ryan. The letters spelling “CONVAIR” on the tail were a giveaway. VSTOL, which seems to be a theme.

I expect a Fieseler Storch any time soon.

Posted 2 years ago

Northwind has it. Nicknamed the Flying Bedstead. PJM I think it was entirely Rolls responsible for that thing at that point as it had two Nenes.

The scary autogyro is/was a Hafner Rotochute. Designed to replace a parachute. Apparently worked well enough, but a parachute was easier and bailing out of a fast moving airplane less problematic.

After doing that, the designer did this:

I admit defeat at XG900 and had to look it up.

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