FORUMLEDEN met NOSTALGIE......"vreemde" kisten

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Fouga Cyclone "Gémeaux" (de CM-88R versie)

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Welterusten, ik kijk morgen wel wat het geworden is.... :sleepy:
 
Ik vond het er al zo Fouga-achtig uitzien, en heb nog gezocht op "Fouga twin", als ik nou het Franse woord voor Twin had gebruikt... (gémeaux)!
Bart
 
Ha, een De Havilland Comet!
Ik ga vast een nieuwe uitzoeken...
Bart
 
Horten IV

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http://www.nurflugel.com/Nurflugel/Horten_Nurflugels/ho_iv/Falvy_Pics/falvy_pics.html

At the Nationals, Button sold the Ho IV to Mississippi State University, where Dr. August Raspet was studying the aerodynamics of sailplanes. In 1953, Raspet ran flight tests on it to research why it would not achieve its calculated glide ratio of 37:1. Between 1953 and 1959, he and a team of research students overhauled it: they smoothed out the warped, wooden wing surfaces, modified the center-section canopy and added a streamlined housing for the nose skid. Even with the modifications, its glide ratio could not be raised to the calculated level and even dropped to around 29:1. Dezso Gyorgyfalvy, the MSU student who presented the findings of the 1959 test flights at a conference of the Organisation Scientifique et Technique Internationale in Cologne, Germany, estimated that modern flying wings of approximately the size of the Ho IV should achieve a glide ratio of 50:1. "The handling of the Horten IV is not essentially more difficult than that of any other high-performance sailplane," he writes. "The extremely good-natured stalling and circling characteristics, as well as the excellent landing maneuverability are to be noted especially. ... On the other side of the balance, however, the marginal directional stability, unusual response for rudder control coupled with pitch and, above all, the wingtip flutter, appearing above 1401zrn/h, should be noted."

In 1959, Dr. Raspet, the driving force behind the Ho IV research, died in an accident, and following his death, all research using Ho IV stopped, and it languished for a few years before being sold by the university in 1964. LA-AG z25 changed hands a few more times until it was acquired by Planes of Fame Museum owner Ed Maloney in 1975 for permanent public display.
 
Goodyear GA-33 / AO-2 Inflatoplane ?

GA-33, -447 Inflatoplane 1956 = 1pOmwM; 40hp Nelson H-63A; ff: 2/13/56 (p: Dick Ulm). Inflatable, rubber air-mass construction, somewhat like a giant inner-tube. Structural integrity was retained in flight with forced air being continually circulated by the motor, and required less air pressure than the average auto tire. Designed and built in only 12 weeks. Take-off run on grass was 390'. Concept based on Taylor McDaniel inflatable rubber glider experiments in 1931. POP: 1 [N39635], led to subsequent improved, enclosed-cockpit GA-447 with new wing design (span: 34'0") for military evaluation; tested with various gear arrangements, from tricycle to uniwheel, also on a hydroskid for operations on water.

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ben ik warm?
 
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