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Is that the De Bruyne Snark?
The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.
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fabulousfour
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Your eyes didn't fool you, Mike.
It is the De Bruyne Snark.
It is the De Bruyne Snark.
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Thank you, Robert. What did cause me to hesitate is that never before have I seen a photograph of the Snark flying. Can you reveal its source?
I'll try to find something entertaining to follow on before the afternoon is out.
I'll try to find something entertaining to follow on before the afternoon is out.
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Mike, source of the photo is "Aeroplane" from June 2001.
In that issue an extract of the biography of Sir Peter Masefield, the later owner of the Snark, is printed.
In that issue an extract of the biography of Sir Peter Masefield, the later owner of the Snark, is printed.
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Thank you, Robert. Here's something a little more modern and a little less conventional to be going on with ..... !
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Correct in all respects, Walter. This geodetric masterpiece is the Mirouze AM.1 Pulsar.
I haven't come across a F-W or a F-P registration for the first Pulsar (pictured) which, having regard to what I say below, might not be altogether surprising. But the second is said to have carried the marks F-WTXF although doesn't seem to have migrated to the CNRA register.
Some sources talk about the Pulsar undergoing a test flight. Another suggests that this might be rather rich. That source says that it was overweight but in 1977 made a high speed run, without unsticking, and then leapt into the air, only to fall back almost immediately with sufficient force to collapse its undercarriage and damage itself beyond repair. However I have to wonder whether this account might relate to the second Pulsar as the first was completed in September 1974 and it seems unlikely to have waited three years to make its first attempt to fly.
Now if you can drag yourself away from acquiring expensive motor cars, perhaps you'll offer us the next challenge.
I haven't come across a F-W or a F-P registration for the first Pulsar (pictured) which, having regard to what I say below, might not be altogether surprising. But the second is said to have carried the marks F-WTXF although doesn't seem to have migrated to the CNRA register.
Some sources talk about the Pulsar undergoing a test flight. Another suggests that this might be rather rich. That source says that it was overweight but in 1977 made a high speed run, without unsticking, and then leapt into the air, only to fall back almost immediately with sufficient force to collapse its undercarriage and damage itself beyond repair. However I have to wonder whether this account might relate to the second Pulsar as the first was completed in September 1974 and it seems unlikely to have waited three years to make its first attempt to fly.
Now if you can drag yourself away from acquiring expensive motor cars, perhaps you'll offer us the next challenge.
Hi pomme homme
Thank you for the info. I may add the following. F-WTXF is described (in FoxPapa)m as the Drezet-Mirouge MD-1 with a first flight (PB) in 1973. She is a small biplane that also appears in l`Avions Francais 1965-1980 on page 119. Another biplane by Drezet is on page 100.
As to the AM-1 Pulsar I have as "date of first flight" 11 November 1974. The aircraft later joined the collection of the now closed RSA-Museum at Brienne-le-Chateau and it seems she has disappeared since.
Finally a photo of the Pulsar 2, reportedly completed in 1984. No F-.... known to me. Can it be that this was basically a ULM (did that class already exist in France in that time?)
Thank you for the info. I may add the following. F-WTXF is described (in FoxPapa)m as the Drezet-Mirouge MD-1 with a first flight (PB) in 1973. She is a small biplane that also appears in l`Avions Francais 1965-1980 on page 119. Another biplane by Drezet is on page 100.
As to the AM-1 Pulsar I have as "date of first flight" 11 November 1974. The aircraft later joined the collection of the now closed RSA-Museum at Brienne-le-Chateau and it seems she has disappeared since.
Finally a photo of the Pulsar 2, reportedly completed in 1984. No F-.... known to me. Can it be that this was basically a ULM (did that class already exist in France in that time?)
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Is it the photograph or does it have a lack of ailerons? If so, does it have an all moving upper wing? As to its frontal profile, it looks to have the same nasal charm as the Angus Aquila!