Author Topic: Name This Goofy Aircraft (Read 1559 times)

ra · « **on:** March 01, 2004, 05:10:23 PM »

Just when I think I've seen everything, I come across this:

I can't tell if the guy is biting his fingernails or smoking his last cigarette.

Name it!

ra

Pooh21 · « **Reply #1 on:** March 01, 2004, 05:13:38 PM »

its gotta be British

slow,ugly,or slow and ugly

icemaw · « **Reply #2 on:** March 02, 2004, 03:23:56 PM »

By the looks of the cap I would say French spam in a can.

M.C.202 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 02, 2004, 07:59:28 PM »

Obi-Wan Kenobi's first speeder?

frank3 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 03, 2004, 03:03:12 AM »

I was thinking of that submarine in Starwars

Surprises anyone that it is French?

Staga · « **Reply #5 on:** March 03, 2004, 04:29:13 AM »

That gotta be photoshopped pic.

Furball · « **Reply #6 on:** March 03, 2004, 05:08:46 AM »

hes clenching his fist - "you havent seen me..... RIGHT?"

ra · « **Reply #7 on:** March 03, 2004, 06:58:41 AM »

Quote

Originally posted by Staga
That gotta be photoshopped pic.

Nope, I got it from a book called "French Aircraft of WWI". That thing was meant to fly.

ra

Furball · « **Reply #8 on:** March 03, 2004, 07:06:12 AM »

is the wing supposed to spin like a helicopter blade or something?

hawker238 · « **Reply #9 on:** March 03, 2004, 03:02:03 PM »

Damnit, that's definitely a photoshop.... Who would design a piece of crap like that?

frank3 · « **Reply #10 on:** March 03, 2004, 03:26:25 PM »

Looks like some submarine.
At the far left, you see a hatch which opens to nothing?

ra · « **Reply #11 on:** March 03, 2004, 04:40:14 PM »

Papin-Rouilly Helicopter.

The disk on the left contains an 80-hp Le Rhone rotary engine turning a ducted fan. The air was pumped out through the tip of the rotary wing to push it around. Some of the air was pumped through that tube to be used for pitch and yaw control.

It was tested in 1915 but mostly just scared the fish.

Here's a modelling site in French which has more pictures.

You have to give the designers a high score for imagination. And at least no one was hurt.

ra

frank3 · « **Reply #12 on:** March 04, 2004, 04:22:25 AM »

Imagination? Yes
That ends about everything I would prove good about the idea

Dowding · « **Reply #13 on:** March 04, 2004, 04:53:33 AM »

That's just bonkers.

Very Jules Verne.