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This evolved into the PT-7 prototype where the tracking antenna was shifted to the lower lip and enclosed in a conical radome.These were dropped for the production models which had a variable geometry shock cone inlet.[ATTACH=full]1494[/ATTACH]

 

Cheers, Willie.

Yep .. that's how you scare the opposition: poke your tongue out at 'em.

 

 

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I guess we can't let the USA off the hook, either.

 

This comical looking jet is the Vought XF8U-3 Crusader 3, developed as a successor to the F8U Crusader, and competitor to the F4 Phantom. Five were built and three flown before losing out to the F4.

 

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The ventral fins enabled speeds of Mach2+ and rotated to horizontal for landing and take off.

 

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Cheers, Willie.

 

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This Avid Private Explorer was passing through Taree today. Canadian couple touring through Auz

 

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Take the wings off that Avid Private Explorer and you could tow it behind the car. Does it have a bed near that low window at the back? Does it have a stove and sink?

 

 

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Came out in a 40' container and was put together at Bankstown. Cruises at 100 MPH with 300 ponnies up front so to get it here and then around Auz and back home again it would not be a cheap exercise, but what a way to go.

 

Cheers Scotty

 

 

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Thanks Scotty - much appreciated.

 

What an incredible aircraft! Like a furshluginer airborne lounge room/bedroom combined!

 

Now for something equally built to a purpose and not to aesthetics...

 

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Came out in a 40' container and was put together at Bankstown. Cruises at 100 MPH with 300 ponnies up front so to get it here and then around Auz and back home again it would not be a cheap exercise, but what a way to go.Cheers Scotty

Typical of the yanks with quoted performance figures, no way in the world this thing was doing 90 knots when it flew over. It had a fairly high power setting by the sound of it and it took ages from first sound/sight to out of sight.

 

 

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Now for something equally built to a purpose and not to aesthetics...

I was wondering where that photo was taken & tracked it down to the Museum of Polish Aviation in Krakow. Another museum for the bucket list.

Cheers, Willie.

 

 

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[ATTACH=full]1593[/ATTACH] yep ugly

 

[ATTACH=full]1594[/ATTACH] rubbish bin ugly

 

[ATTACH=full]1595[/ATTACH] ugly and incomplete. Points for identifying the constellation of dots near the tail wheel

 

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A couple of photos of the Aeronca C-3. The front end looks a bit like a white pointer shark.

 

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Cheers, Willie.

 

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Another French contender, the Amiot 143.

 

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Cheers, Willie.

 

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A couple of photos of the Aeronca C-3.Cheers, Willie.

The C-3 ... one of my treasured wish-objects: extravagantly, it has twice as many cylinders as our veteran car, yet has retained a certain degree of aural sophistication...

 

Please note - the second clip is labelled as a "high speed" pass ... :)

 

 

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it has twice as many cylinders as our veteran car, yet has retained a certain degree of aural sophistication...

Sounds a bit like a TE-20 Massey Ferguson.

This Chinese home built looks a bit like a smaller version of the Flying Bathtub if you stretch the imagination a little.

 

 

Cheers, Willie.

 

 

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