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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Hi PH :very_drunk:
The name is spelled somewhat different (Douglas S. Wheeling), but no doubt you meant his design. To be honest. am not sure she ever flew, although the pic was taken at Oshkosh 1982.
Registration was N17PJ, the engines were two Gluhareff G2-8-130 pulsejets (mounted on the back). The FAA register mentioned as A/W (Airworthiness) date 28 JUne 1984, but that does not always mean the PJ1 actually flew.

Your turn, sir!

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Thank you, Walter.

The only reference that I found, online, to the PJ-1 was on the minijets.org website, which uses the spelling that I employed. Hence my error. Right aeroplane, wrong spelling!

Here's an attractive light aeroplane that seems to have had a relatively short life and an unknown fate - unless someone can tell me otherwise.

 
Another animal from the French zoo: Petitbon RP-40 'Le Voyageur' No. 1, F-PGYK

It's a pity, but I don't have much information about the aircraft, either. :beaten:
 
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Hi giruXX:encouragement:
When Mr. Günter Seibel first met her, she was of the high wing family. The GS-2 Starling from Canada (C-GUDA). Piper J3 fuselage/tail feathers mated to own design wings. C90 engine. First flown 1976 and dismantled 1982.
 
Sorry for the delay. Keeping the pusher theme going.

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Well, the guy behind the engine reminds me of Mao Tse-tung or alike. :bee: Could that feeling be a hint that this aircraft comes from the eastern side of the iron curtain?
 
No oriental influence gX.

This pusher made a few test flights in 1936 and had a rough landing after the engine failed. The project was not continued after that.
 
Think eastern side of iron curtain where most of the grainy photos come from...:biggrin-new:

BTW- There is conflicting info on flight year. Could be either 1936 or 1937. The name of the aircraft was also reused later on in other designs. By one account, it flew well if underpowered by the 2-stroke engine.

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Hi Lefty
out of curiosity I have in my files the pic of a "MAI Grushin Oktiabrienok" however this is a diminutive monoplane with conventional Salmson pusher engine produced in the Soviet Union in 1936...could it be that there might be two completely different items with the same name?
Cheers
BG
 
Moses03 said:
Mike has the right one.:very_drunk:

More info and another photo here:

http://ram-home.com/ram-old/oktyabryonok.html


BG- There were a couple of other designs with that name, one being a tandem wing layout. Not sure about your Salmson pusher?

Edit: Here is the tandem wing one I was thinking about.

http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=9291.0;nowap
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Thanks Moses for the additional "Oktyabryanok" photo. The tandem wing one on "Secret projects" is exactly what I meant in my previous thread (I wrote by mistake "conventional Salmson pusher engine" instead of just "conventional Salmson engine")...sorry for the mix-up!
Cheers
BG
 
Gentlemen, will you please indulge this intervention on my part. Attached is a miniscule image of an aeroplane that I might well have bought if SWMBO hadn't put her foot down. But evidently someone else's SWMBO didn't take the same attitude as the advertisement soon thereafter disaapeared from the website where it had been. Sadly all I saved was the image itself. The advertisement also included hyperlinks to youtube videos showing the aeroplane being taxied frantically around a field. But I didn't save the hyperlinks and despite all the permutations subsequently introduced into the youtube search engine, I've failed since to find the videos. But back to the aeroplane.

To me it looks to be a formule Mignet aeroplane. But the resolution of the image is so low that I can't say whether the forward wing is parasol mounted or mounted on the upper fuselage. If it's the latter, then maybe it's a tandem wing rather than a Mignet formule aeroplane. But if that's the case, I can't see any signs of ailerons on that wing. Which fact drives me back to the formule Mignet theory because, perhaps, the fuselage forward of the cockpit - which can't easily be seen in the image - is lower than the fuselage aft of that, which may be higher by virtue of the 'high back' fairing which can be seen. If so, this would enable the forward wing to be parasol mounted and thus be pivoted à la Mignet.

This matter has been driving me mad for ages. I've sought enlightenment on other 'expert' forums but no-one on those has been able to shed any light in my darkness. Can any of you succeed where I and others have failed? If so, I shall be most grateful to you.

 
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