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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

A someahat unusual two-seater using the so called lifting body principle. Did leave the ground but had a sad history.
 

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Hi Mike :encouragement:
The picture may have been taken before full completion. She had a pusher engine/prop.
Btw, the only pic I ever saw of her.
 
Hi P H:encouragement:
The side with the canard wings and nose wheel. Engine was a 78hp Revmaster/VW 2000. She was allocccated a registration, but have no idea where they put it (maybe it is not yet on in the pic).
 
hi giruXX:very_drunk:
By all chances, the Jonas Hummingbird (also seen spelled Humming Bird). Registration N14GJ
Sadly involved in a fatal crash. If interested please google NTSB N14GJ
 
Viv Bellamy's baby, the Bellamy Hilborne BH.1 Halcyon, G-ARIO. It revved its engines and charged up and down the runway at Eastleigh, but it never left the ground. Ultimately his baby was abandoned!
 
Thank you, giruXX.

Now to assuage possible concerns by Lefty, this fragile little creature doesn't come from the Thunderbirds prequel or use a warp drive. As illustrated, it had no source of propulsion. It glid! But I'm informed reliably that subsequently it 'got the power' - a 400cc flat twin ABC motorcycle engine mounted on its nose - and flew with the aid of that. But no image of it, in that form, is known to exist. Posterity does not record what became of it. However its constructors went on to build another unusual aeroplane, which exists today and, apparently, is under restoration, to flying condition, by a descendant.

 
I don't think so, Keith, as this aeroplane apparently was built in Nottinghamshire (there, I've disclosed its nationality!). So I don't think that it would have been putting in any appearances at any of the International Birdman competitions, on any of the south coast piers, which it pre-dates by a significant margin.
 
The Granger Brothers’ Linnet was built as a glider but was subsequently fitted with a small engine to enable it to fly as an unofficial and unregistered powered aircraft.
 
Well done, giruXX. That's the bird! Over to you.

The Granger brothers went on to build the Archeopteryx which, after being withdrawn from the custody of the Shuttleworth Trust, apparently has been undergoing restoration by Richard Granger, the son of one of the brothers, with the intemntion that it should fly again.
 
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