What aircraft is this?

[silvercity]

Can anyone tell me what type of aircraft this is? I've never seen it before.

 

 

 

[Guest Maj Millard]

I believe it is a Palatus specifically used for towing targets...................Maj....

 

 

[pmccarthy]

Or a clever piece of Photoshopping with a Pilatus nose, greenhouse from a WW2 trainer and rear fuselage from a WW2 bomber. Must look ungainly on the ground with its nose in the air.

 

 

[metalman]

It's a mark 1 fugly,,,,aerodynamically challenged but luckily the earth found it repulsive!

 

 

[Guest Maj Millard]

I like it....ugly like a Storch , but purposfull........................Maj.............

 

 

[Karl]

It's a EKW C 3605 Swiss aircraft ,build for the Swiss airforce last used for towing targets.

 

Any way that's what Google tells me when typing in the rego.

 

Karl

 

 

[silvercity]

Thanks for the info ... ugly but interesting.

 

 

[Denny Fiedler]

Great airplane, was a passenger in one of them (at a German Airshow) ages ago, best flight so far, had to sit down for 15 min afterwards.

 

That's the one I flew in http://www.bredow-web.de/DO-3605.JPG

 

two years later and after slicing through a Robin 2160 camera plane while filming a commercial.

 

 

[Guest Maj Millard]

Ouch, looks like the Robin may have come off second best there !......................Maj......

 

 

[Bandit12]

That is one rugged little aircraft

 

 

[facthunter]

Looks like it was built of whatever was left over from other projects. How would you see over the nose? .Be curious how it would spin. Primitive flap. Nev

 

 

[silvercity]

"Great airplane, was a passenger in one of them (at a German Airshow) ages ago, best flight so far, had to sit down for 15 min afterwards.

 

That's the one I flew in http://www.bredow-web.de/DO-3605.JPG

 

two years later and after slicing through a Robin 2160 camera plane while filming a commercial. "

 

Thanks for that info Denny. Love to get to that airshow one day. Maybe this is it?

 

http://forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=55583

 

 

[Marty_d]

"Great airplane, was a passenger in one of them (at a German Airshow) ages ago, best flight so far, had to sit down for 15 min afterwards.That's the one I flew in http://www.bredow-web.de/DO-3605.JPG

two years later and after slicing through a Robin 2160 camera plane while filming a commercial. "

 

Thanks for that info Denny. Love to get to that airshow one day. Maybe this is it?

 

http://forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=55583

What a line up!! What's the aircraft with the fishbowl cockpit?

 

 

By the way, am I the only one who thinks the vertical stab & rudder on the AN-2 is almost comically oversize?

 

 

[Guest Maj Millard]

Mono spar ??.........................Maj.....

 

 

[silvercity]

Here's info on the "fishbowl cockpit" aircraft.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_Ae-45

 

 

[viewfromright]

[quote=silvercity, post: 399329,

 

http://forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=55583

 

Thanks for sharing the link - what a great set of pics!!

 

 

[Denny Fiedler]

Thank you for the link Silvercity, I guess my next family visit will coincide with Hahnweide2014 airshow.

 

 

[Marty_d]

Thank you for the link Silvercity, I guess my next family visit will coincide with Hahnweide2014 airshow.

Unfortunately it looks like it's a biennial event - so having been held in 2013 it'll next occur in 2015.

Bit of a bugger - I got all excited too as I'll be in Europe in September next year, until I read that bit.