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Re: Quest: Guess what is depicted here
« Reply #4524 on: November 03, 2018, 07:47:41 PM »

No unfortunately.

Since it is the literal last of it’s kind we can’t take the risk of it being destroyed.
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Re: Quest: Guess what is depicted here
« Reply #4525 on: November 03, 2018, 10:14:22 PM »

Found a bit more info on the aircraft :)

During the late 1920s and 1930s American aircraft designer Vincent Burnelli had conceived and built a series of aircraft that sought to combine the attributes of a true "flying wing" with the practicalities of stability and size. These culminated in the UB-14 which first flew in 1934.  A fuselage of wing profile provided a spacious and strong passenger cabin. A twin boom tail provided the lateral stability impossible in true flying wing designs until the use of "fly-by-wire" technology. Closely grouped twin engines minimized asymmetric handing problems. The first prototype crashed in spectacular fashion but the passenger cabin escaped with little damage, vindicating the designers claims for the inherent safety of the design. A second prototype was soon flying (the UB-14B) and attracted world-wide interest.



Burnelli never succeeded in getting his brainchild into production in the USA. However he had little problem attracting interest in other countries. Unfortunately in each case he ended up negotiating license production with companies that wanted to break into the aviation marketplace rather than ones already established in it. A deal with the Canadian Can-Car company led to only a single aircraft that only flew in 1945, while production in Holland fell through altogether. In the UK the "Scottish Aircraft & Engineering Company" was formed to build the UB-14 with British Rolls-Royce Kestrel engines. At the time there was huge unemployment in Scotland in the aftermath of the economic depression and there were various schemes to subsidize the setting up of factories in Scotland, especially in the Glasgow area (Blackburn was one company that took advantage of this, setting up a flying-boat factory at Dumbarton). It seems the Scottish Aircraft & Engineering Company was set up to take advantage of these schemes, although the only addresses listed in its many press advertisements were in London. These press adverts were prodigious and a lot of interest was whipped up for their version of the Burnelli which they called "The Clyde Clipper", no doubt a reference to where they hoped to produce the aircraft (there was also to be a cargo-carrying version to be called the "Clyde Freighter").  With war clouds looming they also advertised a "Burnelli Bomber" version. All of this came to naught- the company collapsed with only a wooden mock-up of the Clyde-Clipper to show for its efforts.
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Re: Quest: Guess what is depicted here
« Reply #4526 on: November 04, 2018, 01:48:45 AM »

With war clouds looming they also advertised a "Burnelli Bomber" version.
That would have been interesting ; let's see a dozen of this kind on a bombing raid to berlin, escorted by a few Spitfire Mk.Ia  :D
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Re: Quest: Guess what is depicted here
« Reply #4527 on: November 04, 2018, 01:55:18 AM »

Next, another interesting design:



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Re: Quest: Guess what is depicted here
« Reply #4528 on: November 04, 2018, 02:27:13 AM »

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Re: Quest: Guess what is depicted here
« Reply #4529 on: November 04, 2018, 02:44:06 AM »

That's correct. Screenshot from that very same film.  8)
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Re: Quest: Guess what is depicted here
« Reply #4530 on: November 04, 2018, 03:31:54 AM »

Well in that case it's open round as I'm on the road right now.
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Re: Quest: Guess what is depicted here
« Reply #4531 on: November 04, 2018, 06:25:34 AM »

Cycleplane was developed by Dr. W. Frederick Gerhardt in 1923. The plane really did fly. In July 1923 it was towed by a car into the air a few times and released and it flew short periods of time. It also did one human-powered takeoff and flew 6 meters climbing to height of 60 cm.

The Cycleplane became (in)famous because of the film above. The footage is often shown in compilations along with other ill-fated attempts at human flight from the pioneering days of aviation. It is also shown in some famous movies such as Airplane! and And Now for Something Completely Different.
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Re: Quest: Guess what is depicted here
« Reply #4532 on: November 04, 2018, 12:20:36 PM »

This is a pretty easy one.


Try this:





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Re: Quest: Guess what is depicted here
« Reply #4533 on: November 04, 2018, 03:39:14 PM »

Yep, it is. It was made where van Gogh went to school.
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Re: Quest: Guess what is depicted here
« Reply #4534 on: November 04, 2018, 03:45:41 PM »

It also has a pretty telling hint attached to it.
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Re: Quest: Guess what is depicted here
« Reply #4535 on: November 05, 2018, 08:51:59 AM »

Fokker F.25.  Wiki says its design was derived from a design for a home built to escape Occupied Holland, which seems weird.  Apparently it was derived from the Difoga 421

Anyway, my Yak skins are up here:  http://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads2&file=details&id=8028
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