Is This Real??
05-09-2010 | 02:46 PM
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Is This Real??
Hope I'm in the right place.
I lurk here quite a bit, unfortunately I don't post much - gotta change that!!
This was posted on another site in response to 'Airplane Pictures'.
Is it real? If so what the heck is it, and where could I possibly get plans? Seen some strange stuff over the years, but this one is weird!!
I lurk here quite a bit, unfortunately I don't post much - gotta change that!!
This was posted on another site in response to 'Airplane Pictures'.
Is it real? If so what the heck is it, and where could I possibly get plans? Seen some strange stuff over the years, but this one is weird!!
05-09-2010 | 03:30 PM
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RE: Is This Real??
It's a site called Smartest Computing.us There is a weekly photo expose', the one voted best pic last week gets to pick the topic for this week. The actual topic was 'Any airplanes, old, new or in between.' And, this contraption showed up. It looks as if the propeller warps the slightest bit - the nose may be a bit shorter.
05-09-2010 | 04:40 PM
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RE: Is This Real??
Can't tell if it's a replica or even a large model but the original was a real plane. As I recall it was pre-WW II and made by one of the more well known Italian manufacturers. It was in my WW II aircraft spotter's handbook that I had as a kid. Been a while though.
05-09-2010 | 10:12 PM
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RE: Is This Real??
Thank ya'all for the info. It seems that it would make quite an eye catcher... After reading the provided bit on Mr. Stipa, I believe he should have been credited with some form of recognition for the jet era, albeit a strange looking little jug thing with a big intake and a small outlet (jet??).....
06-22-2010 | 02:27 PM
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Really no advantage to it. The only reason you would want to put a prop in a duct and power it with an IC engine would be to slow the flow down to avoid compressibility issues ... and you would need possibly an impossible amount of power to get there.
The real pioneer of early jets was Henri Coanda who although I don't think he invented what became known as the "thermojet" created the first example of one. Fortunately he survived the brief flight and subsequent crash of his 1910 biplane which used an engine of this type.
The real pioneer of early jets was Henri Coanda who although I don't think he invented what became known as the "thermojet" created the first example of one. Fortunately he survived the brief flight and subsequent crash of his 1910 biplane which used an engine of this type.
