• 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

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Well it is certainly F-PYBQ, but I have it as the Starck AS.37

Being French, it probably has several more designations, but I don't really know where Rudolf Nickel came into it ???

Anyway, back to France - :very_drunk:
 
As I understand it, Mike, all the AS.37s were equipped with pusher props. The SN.01 was, as depicted in your photograph, equipped with tractor props. And at the risk of being accused (again?) of pedantry, can you really describe it as 'a wee twin' when the only thing it had in duplicate were its props, which were driven by a single engine installed within the fuselage? If André Starck was anything, he wasn't conventional. Look at the length of time over which he persisted with the Nenodovitch wing formula.

I'm afraid that I haven't anything which is champing at the bit to be posted as the next mystery. However if time permits I will, this evening, go into the dusty recesses of my files (can one have virtual dustiness or recesses?) to see if I can find something that hasn't already been used here. If I can't, I'll throw the board open to those who are better prepared.
 
The more one reads, the more one learns. Thus I hope that my knowledge now is greater than when I posted on that thread over four years ago. To the best of my knowledge the only version of the AS.37 with tractor props is the Starck-Nickel SN.01 F-PYBQ. But I'm content to be corrected.

As there were no overnight offerings, here's a curious little aeroplane to be going on with. But no prizes for stating what powered it!

 
The more one reads, the more one learns. Thus I hope that my knowledge now is greater than when I posted on that thread over four years ago. To the best of my knowledge the only version of the AS.37 with tractor props is the Starck-Nickel SN.01 F-PYBQ. But I'm content to be corrected.

As there were no overnight offerings, here's a curious little aeroplane to be going on with. But no prizes for stating what powered it!

This must be the Shapley Kittiwake (G-AFRP?)..sorry for my long silence but I was in the Dolomites for one week to avoid the terrible heat of last week...by the way after a few days of lower temperatures a new hot wave is expected for the Whole of nest week nstarting Tomorrow...terrific!
Carlo
 
So when someone posts a picture of the Hendy Hobo, will the response be 'rapids thunder', and, if so, maybe the AC-35 will elicit 'gentle outpourings'? :excitement:
 
The small door is No.151 I think - the oil cooler air exit flap.
Belongs to the mighty Avenger! :untroubled:
 

Attachments

  • Scan0124.jpg
    Scan0124.jpg
    40 KB · Views: 8
Back
Top