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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.
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srgalahad
Charter Member 2022
Speaking of the Porterfield 35-70 an article says:
The predecessor and genesis of this aircraft model was a depression-era design by Noel Hockaday called the Wyandotte Pup which was a high wing tandem seat light aircraft similar in appearance to a Taylorcraft. Shop students at Kansas City's Wyandotte High School built the Pup in 1932/33 as a shop exercise. Noel Hockaday had earlier worked for Ed Porterfield who purchased the Pup's design rights and called upon him to develop the design after the Pup flew. Porterfield established the Porterfield Aircraft Corporation specifically to build the developed design, hiring Noel Hockaday again as now Chief Engineer and plant General Manager. The resultant design was sold as the Porterfield 35-70 Flyabout.
http://www.airport-data.com/article...terfield-35-70-FLYABOUT-Spinach-Rev-1;32.html
The same cousin-kissin' must have occurred with the later P'fields and the Hockaday 130 lefty found and it spilled over to Rearwin (the vertical fin if the Hockaday, later P'fields and a couple of Rearwins all came from under the same rock:isadizzy: )
lefty
SOH-CM-2023
Seems like those ol' Mid-Western boys, if they weren't whittlin' on sticks or doing unspeakable things to cows, would take it upon themselves to build a AIRPLANE !!!
As for the interbreeding, I couldn't possibly comment.
Moses has kindly pointed out to this old retard that he posted the floater before, so to save you all looking it up again, (LeO 23) I'll give you another flivver.. I'm in a perverse mood these days.
lefty
SOH-CM-2023
Your Scottish correspondent is the old retard I was referring to......
Re the flivver, I'll concede a small sarsaparilla to our homebuild expert - actually this is the Bartlett Zephyr, last of the Babcock-Taube line, which mysteriously meandered from Washington through Ohio, Florida, and back to California. These guys got around. Rob seems to have known most of them personally so maybe he can enlighten us as to why they were harried from state to state ?
Enjoy..............
srgalahad
Charter Member 2022
However they were, in their time, probably social outcasts who banded together because no one else would buy them beer/wine/slivovic. One would have a Eureka moment and they would all take the parts and assemble them in various (and curious) order and try to foist them off on the flying public. Then they would have their falling-out moment and each would [LINESTRIKE]steal[/LINESTRIKE] appropriate the bits for a while until re-invited to join the brotherhood.
Dozens of cases like this, from the French, the Stearman/Beech gang, the ones noted above.. and all just a giant conspiracy to strain our eyes and brains. Speaking of.. what's next?
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, Dave, after all, it's Friday !