The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[Moses03]

It is the fictional Stiles Skystreak that crashed trying to perform an outside loop at an airshow in Waldo Pepper. But before that it was a garden variety Chipmunk first flown in 1951 so the nod goes to Keith.

I think the spoked wheels were a nice touch!

 

[Dev One]

Thank you Moses, I was wondering to which part of the undercart the flying wires were attached to, & did they flex with the stroke of the oleo?

Anyway, here is my offering that I don't remember seeing before.
Keith

 

[cthornburg]

PN-3 from Estonia s/n 160

Chris

 

[Dev One]

Chris, correct .
Over to you.
Keith

 

[cthornburg]

and now for a fling wing

Chris

 

[wout]

Hi Chris
I have this chopper as the "Viki Helicopter" built after he came to the USA and nearing completion around 1998/1999.
Undersrtand engine was an Allison 250 turbine and coukld be that much of the fuselage came from an Enstrom 280.
Maybe not flown as in my notes I see that Mr. Viki deceased prior to flight testing. Have no idea whether an N-number was assigned and equally no idea about involvement of Mr. Dustin Harley (from Utah?). Seems she was still around 2009/2010.

 

[wout]

Sorry, important part fell out of the text.
Design of Finnish-born Mr. Viki who imigrated to the USA.

 

[cthornburg]

Right on over to you.

Chris

 

[wout]

This snowwhite has been around for a couple of years.

 

[fabulousfour]

Looks like an Ilyushin 103 on steroids

 

[wout]

Two countries involved in this 5-seater

 

[giruXX]

5-seater is a good hint! I was asuming a six-seater for too long.

It's the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) and Mahindra Aerospace NM5 or C-NM5 from India first flown in Australia in 2011.

 

[wout]

hi giruXX
That is her! The Australian connection is via GippsAero (of GA-200 and GA-8 fame). The prototype was VH-XNM.
My shoebox-notes tell me that (possibly) a second proto flew in India in 2012, but I have never seen photos or similar to confirm this.
Your turn sir!

 

[giruXX]

Let's keep to color pictures:

 

[fabulousfour]

Could be a Van's with a Wankel-engine.
No side-by-side-seating, so probably a RV-4, Uli?

 

[giruXX]

Cheers Robert

That's all right.

It went through the media as "Mike Wills Mazda 13B powered Van's RV4": https://sites.google.com/site/actualliga/motor-wankel

 

[fabulousfour]

Must have missed that completely. Maybe that I read the wrong media.

Here is a kite that is considerably larger.

 

[lefty]

That, sir, is the Packard-LePere LUSAO-11.

 

[fabulousfour]

That, Mike, is correct.

Enjoy your pint.

Strange, I did a search for this plane whether it had been shown here before and found nothing
When I was googling now for some hints, Kevin's mystery of 2014 (post 9458) popped up...

 

[lefty]

Thanks Robert. You just have to look at the number of posts, and how long this forum has been running, to realise it is very difficult to find something new !

At one time Ferry was keeping a track and cataloguing all the mysteries, but I don't know if he's still doing it..

Here's one that has been here before, but doesn't show up in the Search box...(some people would call this one a parasol....)