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Title: Name This Goofy Aircraft
Post by: ra on March 01, 2004, 05:10:23 PM

Just when I think I've seen everything, I come across this:
(http://users.adelphia.net/~randrew/wtf.jpg)

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

Name it!

ra

Title: Name This Goofy Aircraft
Post by: Pooh21 on March 01, 2004, 05:13:38 PM

its gotta be British


slow,ugly,or slow and ugly

Title: Name This Goofy Aircraft
Post by: icemaw on March 02, 2004, 03:23:56 PM

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

Title: Name This Goofy Aircraft
Post by: M.C.202 on March 02, 2004, 07:59:28 PM

Obi-Wan Kenobi's first speeder?

Title: Name This Goofy Aircraft
Post by: frank3 on March 03, 2004, 03:03:12 AM

I was thinking of that submarine in Starwars :lol
Surprises anyone that it is French?

Title: Name This Goofy Aircraft
Post by: Staga on March 03, 2004, 04:29:13 AM

That gotta be photoshopped pic.

Title: Name This Goofy Aircraft
Post by: Furball on March 03, 2004, 05:08:46 AM

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

Title: Name This Goofy Aircraft
Post by: ra 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

Title: Name This Goofy Aircraft
Post by: Furball on March 03, 2004, 07:06:12 AM

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

Title: Name This Goofy Aircraft
Post by: hawker238 on March 03, 2004, 03:02:03 PM

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

Title: Name This Goofy Aircraft
Post by: frank3 on March 03, 2004, 03:26:25 PM

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

Title: Name This Goofy Aircraft
Post by: ra 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 (http://modelbox.free.fr/photoscopes/Papin_Phot/index.html)  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

Title: Name This Goofy Aircraft
Post by: frank3 on March 04, 2004, 04:22:25 AM

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

Title: Name This Goofy Aircraft
Post by: Dowding on March 04, 2004, 04:53:33 AM

That's just bonkers.

Very Jules Verne.