Guess This Aircraft ?

[derekliston]

1 hour ago, kasper said:

Not only 10.  Over 20 of them.  The 10 was the modified ju87 with jettisoning fixed gear.

 

to help - 26 in total built. 
 

next clue tomorrow 
 

Can only find the Edgley Optica but 23 of them built apparently. No idea about jettisonable undercarriage though!

 

[pmccarthy]

Thinks... must have been a fixed gear aircraft that was expected to spend a lot of time over water. Post war, so slow heavy lifter?  Hmmm

[pmccarthy]

Ok it took a while. The Short Seamew.

[facthunter]

Explains why it confounded us for so long.  You wouldn't particularly want a short anything if the normal one was available. Nev

[Garfly]

But you'd have to walk miles to find something more ungainly.

[kasper]

Well done.  Yes. The short seamew.  A plane design hit repeatedly with the ugly stick and then given half the power it needed.   Whack a double mamba in the front and I think it would have had half a chance in its role

Edited February 28, 2021 by kasper

[derekliston]

What is more annoying is that there is another post on here about the Seamew and Airtruk!!! Yet nobody picked it before pmccarthy! Well done that man.

[pmccarthy]

[pmccarthy]

Supposed to be capable of 18 hours endurance but at 75mph and took an hour to climb to 10,000 feet. Designed to defend England from Zeppelins, it was a failure.

[red750]

Another one without a photo.

 

What helicopter had two angled tail rotors?

[pmccarthy]

Boeing AH-64 Apache

Edited April 6, 2021 by pmccarthy

[red750]

The desccription of the Apache's tail rotor I have seen is simply a 4 blade tail rotor. Although the two pairs of blades are not at right angles, they appear to be to one unit and do not counter-rotate. The machine in question has separate tail rotors at the end of two Vee shaped booms.

 

 

I believe the odd spacing of the Apache's tail rotor reduces noise, similar to the odd blade spacing on some fenestrons.

[pmccarthy]

Sikorsky S-56 then!

 

[red750]

This is a photo of the S-56. It looks nothing like the image above. This aircraft is from around the same era, but is European. It was later modified to a conventional single tail rotor.

 

[pmccarthy]

The caption on this photo says it was an early experimental version of the S-56 but the caption may be wrong. I will keep looking. 🙂

[pmccarthy]

The very first Sikorsky also had twin tail rotors. But it is not the one you are thinking of.

[red750]

Let's put this to rest. The machine I came across was a SNCASE SE-3110 or Sud-Est SE-3110,

a French two seat experimental helicopter with unusual twin, angled tail rotors, first flown in 1950. After brief tests SNCASE decided to concentrate on a closely related but single-tail-rotor design.

 

 

 

[red750]

[Student Pilot]

Spanish built Hispano Battle of Britten star Buchan?

Edited April 10, 2021 by Student Pilot

[red750]

Yep. The way to spot the difference from the Bf-109 is the higher placement of the exhausts, like the Spitfire. Bf-109 exhausts are below the propeller drive shaft.

[red750]

[kasper]

Can’t remember it’s name but I read about it years ago.  It’s an American one off experimental built to be a flying caravan/home for a retired guy and his wife.  But it was under powered when complete and he was losing interest in it.  Was somewhere down south in the USA - can’t recall if it was Florida or Georgia. .  

[440032]

Global Explorer.

[Methusala]

Dean Wilson's Twin Explorer

[red750]

Yes. Wilson Global Explorer. Sleeping accommodation for 7 persons. Was retired after flying from Australia to France in 1998. A smaller, single engine version, Global Explorer 2 was also built.