Name that Flying Machine
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Think it's a Dyke Delta.
Didn't some one on here, or maybe Flypast, see a French one visiting the UK last year?
Didn't some one on here, or maybe Flypast, see a French one visiting the UK last year?
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Have to be an open house...
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That would be a Transland aircraft of some description (trusting my rickety memory) from the USA in, I think, mid to late 1950s, intended for aerial application of spray against unsuspecting caterpillars or some such. And that would appear to be a monstrosity of a wing section, and a very broad undercarriage track too.
That would be a Transland aircraft of some description (trusting my rickety memory) from the USA in, I think, mid to late 1950s, intended for aerial application of spray against unsuspecting caterpillars or some such. And that would appear to be a monstrosity of a wing section, and a very broad undercarriage track too.
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And that would appear to be a monstrosity of a wing section
This is the Texas/Transland/Weick Ag-1.
But I leave the honor too Dux.
Dduxbury,
as I have no experience in crop spraying; is there a significant difference in spraying unsuspecting caterpillars and suspecting caterpillars?
I could imagine the latter ones go into cocooning????
That's the one. The Ag-1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_A%26M_College_Ag-1)
Designed by Fred Weick of Ercoupe fame* (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Weick) when he was at Texas A&M. He subsequently designed the Ag-3, which morphed into the Pawnee. Obviously, Redwoods were hard to come by in College Station!
I found these aircraft while looking for information on the Pawnee, in advance of flying my gliding club's new towplane!
dux has control.
* PS Fred had many other achievements that are not as well known as the Ercoupe. I didn't know until I read the Wiki article, that he was involved in the development of the NACA cowl - http://naca.central.cranfield.ac.uk/...aca-tn-301.pdf
Designed by Fred Weick of Ercoupe fame* (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Weick) when he was at Texas A&M. He subsequently designed the Ag-3, which morphed into the Pawnee. Obviously, Redwoods were hard to come by in College Station!
I found these aircraft while looking for information on the Pawnee, in advance of flying my gliding club's new towplane!
dux has control.
* PS Fred had many other achievements that are not as well known as the Ercoupe. I didn't know until I read the Wiki article, that he was involved in the development of the NACA cowl - http://naca.central.cranfield.ac.uk/...aca-tn-301.pdf
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Well I never! I thought with the Pawnee, Piper had just turned a Cub upside down!
Piper had just turned a Cub upside down!
PS dduxbury310 has control.
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Look s like Yorkshire to me
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Geographers can spot them too!
Early effort by Yorkshire Sailplanes?
Early effort by Yorkshire Sailplanes?