The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[pomme homme]

Hinkler Ibis.

 

[giruXX]

Hinkler Ibis.

That's the one

 

[pomme homme]

Open house, please.

 

[Moses03]

Here is a nifty little number.

 

[wout]

hi Kevin
The Fergusson 101 (N1033C) from across the street?

 

[Moses03]

AKA the Ferguson Experimental Special of 1961. Spot on Walter. Have attached some additional info for your archives!

 

[wout]

Hi Kevin
Thank you for the info. Also allowed me to us the correct spelling (one S only).
Next challenge started 25+ years ago of as one-of-a-kind, but by 2013 already 3 had been built (although no plans/kits were ever available).
Will accept name of the original and name of the pictured green/white one.

 

[giruXX]

I see it on a picture from EAA AirVenture 2015 but I can’t track it via its registration.

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[giruXX]

Now I got it! The registration reads: N136BC

and then it is called Bounds Bearcoupe

 

[lefty]

What, pray, is the EAA ? It seems all the plastic flivver posts refer to it ?

Googling it, I find the Edinburgh Architectural Association.........

 

[giruXX]

There is even more: According to an article in “Experimenter”, April 2014 the "Bearcoupe" is based on Fred Keller's Prospector STOL from 1989.

 

[wout]

Hi giroXX
Indeed the Bounds Bearcoupe (in FAA register), but essentially a Keller FK-1 Prospector STOL with some cghanges.
Keller built the first one (N4XK) for personal use, then a second example (N5XK) for a friend. N136BC was built by Robert Bounds.

 

[giruXX]

For “plastic flivvers” I recommend the IPMS (UK) Scale ModelWorld, Telford UK, 12th & 13th November 2016

Something less exotic from my side again. Sorry lefty, it’s post 1975 and presumably mostly plastics.

 

[giruXX]

The picture was taken before its first flight. Meanwhile it flies in the skies of the “old world”. According to Wikipedia two examples have been built so far.

 

[wout]

Hi giruXX
My guesses would be the Flywhale Adventurer two-seater from Germany amd the first of 2 examples sofar.

 

[giruXX]

Hi wout, that's perfectly perfect

 

[wout]

Sorry for grainy picture. Hope I removed anough to hide the registration.

 

[lefty]

Looks like that well-known chap, Conrad Bumblebee...?

 

[wout]

Hi Mike
That is her. Can you be the judge? Is it Bumblebee or Bumble Bee? (not for this one but for the cousin of the honey bee in general)

Your turn, Sir!

 

[lefty]

Either will do, Walter - I like bees - we need them !

Here is something which is very easy, I fear, and there are persons in Italy and France (not to mention the USA, Holland and the rest of the world) who will snap it up......(by the way, gxx, is your 'Black Forrest' the Schwarzwald we know, or is there another one somewhere ???)