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Came across this today. The one and only prototype Twin Mooney.

Included as GA single due to retractable undercarriage. Can be built as fixed gear in the Recreational 3-axis category.

Hi Gareth,

Very interesting. Maybe you can supply some of the missing data not even listed on the company website. The things missing are:

Cruise speed

Range

Takeoff distance

Landing distance

Rate of climb

Service ceiling.

If could PM some or all of them, I will add them to the data panel.

Thanks,

Peter.

22 minutes ago, Blueadventures said:

Sorry don't like the tail plane shape; looks wrong.

Looks like a surfboard sideways.

18 minutes ago, FlyBoy1960 said:

some unusual fencing

You're not referring to the fixed leading edge slots are you Nev?

This information is copied from Wikipedia. The specs say the quoted weights are with the 80hp engine, but states other engines can be fitted. Further details not shown.

A little known fact: The A-4 was designed to be capable in the event of a hydraulic failure, to land on the two drop tanks nearly always carried by these aircraft. Such landings resulted in only minor damage to the aircraft which could be returned to flight status in less than an hour.

My sincere apologies, gentlemen. No idea how that happened (wearing the wrong glasses probably). Over 1300 profiles and never had a screw-up like that before. All corrected now.

2 minutes ago, eightyknots said:

The Yuma has a Savannah/CH701/Land Africa appearance

Did you read para 2 of te description?

When copying the specs fro Wikipedia, it listed height as 0.83 m (1.25 ft). I thought, that doesn't seem right. So I looked it up on all-aero.com and it said the same. Very odd. Checked the Aviastroitel website - should be 1.25 m. You have to be careful.

From the description above,

"Alluminum alloy construction, light-weight and durable material, corrosion resistant, UV protected."

Here are a couple of still frames from the TV report.

The only completed An-225 was destroyed in Russia's attack on Ukraine when the Antonov airfield was targeted. There are no reports on the partly built aircraft in a hangar.

From the Ed Coates Collection,re the heading photo-

Imported in November 1930 for Sky Travel Pty Ltd of Brisbane, this Junkers F.13 was powered by a 460 h.p. Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar engine.   This rare shot above is from the Charles Ohlson collection via the Civil Aviation Historical Society archives.   Below is a newspaper-extracted image from the Melbourne Argus for 18 November 1930 and was a Shell Oil Co photo taken just after the aircraft had been imported through Melbourne.      The Junkers either did not fit well into the Australian environment or Sky Travel went broke, since a year later it was sold in South Africa as ZS-ADR.   I assume it went to Union Airways who already had several of the type.  Anyway, it was impressed  into service with the SAAF during WW II with the serial 1429.    Odd that it did not find a new home in New Guinea in the early 1930s. 

Another major source of aircraft listings is the manufacturers production lists on airport-data.com, here.

Sometimes has good photos, but no design or development details, few specs, (seating capacity and engine) and no performance details. Often may list 30 or more airframe profiles by registration/construction number with no photos, particularly Canadian registered aircraft.

The major problem with this listing is that it is sorted by registration (tail number) and numbers with photos have a camera icon beside them. The tail number may have been allocated to a number of airframes over time. You may be looking for a particular aircraft, but the tail number has also at some stage been allocated to, say, a Cessna 172. When you click on the tail number to open the page, you may findthat there is a photo of the Cessna, but not the aircraft you are interested in. Having identified a model, then you have to do an internet image search for photos.

There are dozens, possibly even hundreds, of interesting aircraft which may only have 1 or 2 photos, and virtually no details or specifications on the internet, such as this example. Unknown on Wiki,  all-aero.com,  or any other database.

They pop up anywhere. There are lists on sites like Pilotmix, mostly LSA types, some from Wiki lists, such as List_of_military_aircraft_of_the_United_States, often find them while looking for something else. Surprising what pops up when you put an odd enquiry into a search engine. Sometimes you watch a Youtube video, and the playlist down the side, or at the end of a video will throw up something rare or unique.

Downward wingtip fins on single seat variant, upward on two seat variant. 

Looks like rudders on the wingtip fins.

Yes, you are right Arron25. The above was copy and pasted direct from Wikipedia. You'll have to send a correction to Wiki. 

Copy failed, posted previous field. Must be this heat. Now corrected. Thanks OK.

Thanks for the pickup Marty. All fixed. It was an RV-9.

Thanks kasper, trying to do too many too quickly, with outside interference. Error corrected. Not many photos of it around.

Here is a screen print from their website.  Last line is a classic.

There is a link to the movie in the profile.

Grunau Baby now replaced with a Kookaburra IV.