440032 Posted February 21, 2019 Posted February 21, 2019 Heath Center Wing Special racer from 1932. Some sort of variation of the Heath Baby Bullet. Next...............
red750 Posted February 22, 2019 Posted February 22, 2019 It matches the Wkipedia entry for Fleetwing Seabird, but airport-data.com and the US Registry list it as a Kaiser F5.
red750 Posted February 22, 2019 Posted February 22, 2019 Yep. Give me a few minutes. Check out the funny commercials on What's Up.
red750 Posted February 22, 2019 Posted February 22, 2019 The dogs were telling me I was late with their dinner.
red750 Posted February 22, 2019 Posted February 22, 2019 The design is based on another design, but it has not been mentioned here.
pmccarthy Posted February 23, 2019 Posted February 23, 2019 I reckon the photo is of N1712 a Quicksilver Sport 11S operated by Skyrider Aviation out of Camarillo.
red750 Posted February 23, 2019 Posted February 23, 2019 The aircraft is an M-Squared Breese II, registered N18VE. The M-Squared line of aircraft was started in 1996 when a former Quicksilver Manufacturing employee, Paul Mather, decided to offer retrofit kits to convert the Quicksilver II from cable-braced wings to a strut-braced configuration with jury struts.
pmccarthy Posted February 23, 2019 Posted February 23, 2019 This looks like the same machine to me, struts and all. https://goo.gl/images/5v455D not the same one, but mechanically the same?
red750 Posted February 23, 2019 Posted February 23, 2019 The Malmö Flygindustri MFI-9 Junior was a light aircraft produced in Sweden in the 1960s. The aircraft was also produced under license as the Bölkow Bo 208. This one is the original, not the licensed version.
red750 Posted February 23, 2019 Posted February 23, 2019 You might be right PMcC, but my source listed as a Breese II, as did the FAA Registry, and the Quiksilver reference is from Wikipedia.
pmccarthy Posted February 23, 2019 Posted February 23, 2019 You might be right PMcC, but my source listed as a Breese II, as did the FAA Registry, and the Quiksilver reference is from Wikipedia. You are right as usual...This from a 2003 report: Let’s face it. M-Squared is up against Quicksilver as it makes ultralights that closely (but not exactly) resemble the MX series from Quicksilver. All this is no revelation to ultralight regulars aware that M-Squared boss Paul Mather was a very long-time employee of Quicksilver and only left a few years ago because Quicksilver collapse looked more likely than success.
red750 Posted February 23, 2019 Posted February 23, 2019 Near enough. This is a M.125 version with Régnier 4Jo engine (5 built). This one looks very similar, but is from a different manufacturer.
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