-
There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.
If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.
Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.
The Staff of SOH
The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.
- Thread starter Ferry_vO
- Start date
Have at it.
cthornburg
Members +
Chris
cthornburg
Members +
cthornburg
Members +
Chris
cthornburg
Members +
Open House
Chris
fabulousfour
Members +
cthornburg
Members +
Don't know where I found the picture at this time. My library still boxed up in HNL. I've been doing PDF files for aircraft companies. Did Cessna which is where I got it from but don't remember where I got it. So sometimes when you guys come up with an interesting aircraft I try to do a company PDF on it. So you won't stump me next time. Although some of the military aircraft you've put on have stumped me with a different view of the aircraft. Aerofiles is great wish someone would take it over and continue it. It doesn't have everything as I find out with my project on the worlds air forces. I'm always still finding aircraft used that I didn't know about. Best thing here is finding aircraft the experts aren't familiar with.
Right now looking picture for the 1st Swearingen SA26 Merlin with piston engines have the SA26-T Merlin II which might be the same airframe with turbines added don't know.
Chris
giruXX
Members +
You are correct on the first SA-26 (Merlin I). Construction started when plans called for installation of 400hp Lycoming TIGO-541 piston engines. When development of that engine was halted, Ed Swearingen decided to use 578hp PT6A-6 turbines. This also allowed more fuel and thus higher weights. The prototype SA-26-T Merlin II was born. FF 13 April 1965.
Source: Letter from Ed Swearingen.
giruXX
Members +
some kind of Curtiss Fledgling, perhaps?
Found a similar view in Curtiss aircraft 1907-1947: Curtiss N2C-1
fabulousfour
Members +
It is the XN2C-1, so Fledgling is perfect!
cthornburg
Members +
Chris
Ferry_vO
Retired SOH Administrator
giruXX
Members +
I think Peterson came later. Both crafts are perhaps impossible to distinguish from a single photo. Therefore, I think the
should go to Ferry_vO.)* does this mean that there were 459 wrens before?
Ferry_vO
Retired SOH Administrator
I have it as Wren 460)*. http://www.wren460.com/aboutprice.html
I think Peterson came later. Both crafts are perhaps impossible to distinguish from a single photo. Therefore, I think the
)* does this mean that there were 459 wrens before?
Without registration it would be hard to distinguish both versions, as according to the link I posted:"Todd Peterson has acquired the rights to the original Wren modifications and currently markets them under his name."
And:"Apparently there is some confusion buzzing around about the difference between the Peterson and Wren. For clarification, Todd Peterson acquired the Supplemental Type Certificate for the Wren and produced a number of them in the early 1980s under the designation 460P. He evolved the Wren design into the Peterson 260SE."
Anyway, here's a nice picture of a floatplane:
