Planet Satellite. - Page 3

duncan · 28-03-2006

Yep Dan Dare`s weekend run-about exactly !

AirshipsfNflyingboats · 28-03-2006

Ive just seen that someone spotted the vent......strange things happen trying to work on this site...

I went back to my first scan done at a very high photo rate but you can also see what may be a vent in the dorsal surface of the fuse above the wing trailing edge....it would also appear to have been two tone, there is also a diamond pattern on the sides of the fuselage mainly below the cabin but reaching back over the wing.

Heres a link to my Seagull research elswhere...if anyones interested In contributing will set up a thread here as well.
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=474190
mines the Traplet RC version.

tigertc · 30-03-2006

That aint a plane!...its a work of art. Thumbnail won't go big.
I'm drunk tho.

duncan · 30-03-2006

I`m sober and the thumbnail wont go big either. Shows the coloured flash paint-job well. The cooling remains a mystery. Any more Kiwi ?

**wonwinglo** · 30-03-2006

Any chance of a larger picture Kiwi ?

**wonwinglo** · 30-03-2006

Still cannot fully work out the cooling system vents ?

Kiwi · 18-10-2006

Some time ago Duncan asked if I had any more photos of this aircraft, well try yhtis.
Barry asked re the colour scheme, it was blue overall, with red trim and silver lettering and nose.

Kiwi · 18-10-2006

I deleted the previous small thumbnail and here is a bigger version of it. notice there is no rego applied in this photo so it must have been taken prior to the hangar shot.

**wonwinglo** · 18-10-2006

Useful picture Kiwi,must get around to doing some sort of model of this one day.
With a modern small turbojet it would have been successful,I think they realised that there would be cooling problems with the Gipsy engine,not a motor that likes being cowled up and certainly not suited to pusher work.
A machine years ahead of its time and one that the replica builders could have a field day with.