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Excellent mystery plane kasper!

 

Not a KJ design was it? If so I didn't think he was an aero Eng, though he's still alive and flying last I heard, at about 84 years young. I guess I'm wrong though as I don't think any of KJ's designs offered plansets. And his infamous 72kg Joey motorglider had a pylon mounted engine.

 

Musing - Australian aero Engineers that designed ultralights - Whitney ... I don't think it's one of his ... was David Betteridge qualified? (Anyone got a pic of his Hornet?) Um ... Dafydd L has many design parts but no whole aircraft I think (wish he'd design one, it'd have some clever aspects I'm sure, based on what he's done with the Seeker). Swanson ... It also looks a little like the Resurgam copy, the Rouseabout, but that also had a tubular rear fuselage although it was kevlar composite I think, rather than aly tubing.

 

OK, I give up, for now :-)

 

As far as the rudder is concerned - the lower the flying/stalling speed of the aircraft the greater the rudder 'volume' has to be to manage crosswinds for takeoff/landing management (i.e volume = larger fin/rudder for short rear fuselage, smaller fin/rudder for long rear fuselage). This one looks quite appropriate in area/length to me and would probably still have the usual deflections of 25-30 degrees each way. The aerodynamic counterbalance might be more than ideal though, perhaps leaving the pilot with very little control-force feedback.

 

 

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Was it a Moya or Moyra.. ?I remember seeing it in an early AUF mag but cant be sure of the name

OK that's close enough - it's the Maya designed by Graham Percy down in Victoria.

 

http://www.geocities.ws/gjp57/

 

And it is an all wooden airframe with fibreglass fairings only.

 

The original was registered 95.10 as 10-0030

 

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Still looking for the name of the flying dunny seat ... also from Victoria ...

 

 

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HITC with rudder, it all depends on the aileron adverse yaw level and that plane has a fair wingspan.. It also has little dihedral and the leading edge is straight and I think would be pleasant enough to fly. The rudder effort could well be overcompensated but it's in the propwash so strange effects might happen.

 

Look up Heath Parasol as a practical design Nev

 

 

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YEAH!!!!!!!!!!! Yep the Dehn Ringwing

 

Last sighted by me in Airworld Wangaratta - no idea where it went after the closure/sale.

 

If someone else doen't post up an other mystery plane I'll post next Wednesday the next one from my little stash of oddness

 

 

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Ok - Wednesday and no new posts so here goes again.

 

Theme - one designer, 3 different aircraft built in 3 countries 40 years apart. Name the designer and at least two of the aircraft - bonus gold star for naming the countries in which the aircraft were constructed ;-)

 

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The glider is the Horten Ho X a and the bottom photo is the Horten PUL-10. Designed by Reimer and Walter Horten. Originally in Germany, but later in Argentina.

 

 

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The glider is the Horten Ho X a and the bottom photo is the Horten PUL-10. Designed by Reimer and Walter Horten. Originally in Germany, but later in Argentina.

Well done, get the gold star but missed the Australian link...

Photos 1 and 2 are Bill Moyes Horten Xc

 

3 is the Horten Xb from Argentina

 

4 is the Horten designed PUL10 (Panek UltraLight 10m)

 

Love the woodwork in the H Xb ...

 

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Correct kasper. HAL-HT-2 re-engined with a Lycoming 160 hp engine.What about this one?

 

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That cowl and nose leg looks familiar but the canopy and rear fuselage looks purpose built. A prototype drone / glider tug or spotter plane.

 

 

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