The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Well done, lefty. It is the Lignel type 46 Coach - with remarkably modern lines for 1947, particularly when contrasted to Lignel's broadly contemporary product, the type 44 Cross Country. But enough of this. A wee dram to you, sir, and over to Ecosse.
 
Thank you Mike -dram appreciated - it's getting a bit chilly here. This one is not as sleek as the last, but is a chunky wee racer -
 

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Thank you, Jim. I apologise that Ardea became Idea (I've just had to change it again). If you don't keep a watch on that predictive text .....! I'll try to find the next mystery in the morning.
 
I apologise for the delay. It's been a rather strange morning .....

Now we haven't had an aerial blender (didn't he play guitar in Mott the Hoople?) for a while. This one man helicopter, with contra rotating blades, allegedly flew for ten hours. I find that hard to believe, unless one applies a much stretched meaning to the word 'flew', but who am I to say!



p.s. no clues offered as to the identity of the manufacturer of the engine which powered it.
 
This was, I believe, the designer's only venture into the field of rotary wing aircraft. He's better known as a quite prolific designer of powered and unpowered fixed wing aircaft, many of which remained on his drawing board rather than coming to fruition. Of those which did, several have appeared here in the past.
 
Well I tried the notorious de Monge - struck me as the kind of daft thing he would do, but no.
Must be the only picture of a backpack helicopter i've seen where the 'pilot' doesn't even bother wearing a helmet ! But there again, French.....:dizzy:
 
Bien sûr, Robert. I thought that I'd exhausted Georges Sablier's output, with my last post concerning him, but I had forgotten the Sablier-Phély Orthoptère Individuel of 1956. The above photograph shows the second example, powered by a 175cc Ydral motorcycle engine. I have to say that it appears more likely to fly that the first example - which looks more like an inverted ceiling fan than a helicopter! Over to Germany.
 
Thanks, Mike, so it appears that Georges Sablier built two micro-helicopters.
I did find a picture of Sablier's helicopter at the secretprojects-forum during my search but since it looked very different to the type shown above (e.g. rounded and less separated rotor blades) I discarded it.
It seems that the orthoptère hadn't flown when the picture was taken, on the wall are results of motocycle races of 1955.

Nuff said, here is another whirlybird for your amusement.
 

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