By: Steve T - 11th September 2004 at 01:21
Wow. So who said the Convair Sea Dart was a new idea in the 50s, eh! This audacious piece of design must rank alongside the deMonge Bugatti 100P racer prototype of the late 30s as a truly magnificent failure…
S.
By: mike currill - 10th September 2004 at 21:04
According to the link, apparently not.
I actually think it’s quite a nice looking aircraft (umm…boat)…
TNZ
Or…fishing platform 🙂
By: turbo_NZ - 10th September 2004 at 10:43
According to the link, apparently not.
I actually think it’s quite a nice looking aircraft (umm…boat)…
TNZ
By: DazDaMan - 10th September 2004 at 08:41
More to the point, did the bloody thing ever fly?! 😮
By: Mark12 - 10th September 2004 at 08:31
Plan form.
Adventurous and pretty impressive for a mid 1920’s design.
Interesting plan form for the wing.
Look familiar?
Mark
By: Jimw - 10th September 2004 at 07:12
Turbo NZ,
Correct aircraft, wrong date ( OK being a bit picky)
Piaggio-pegna P.c.7, photo taken on lake Garda late 1928/early 1929
This was designed and built for the 1929 Schneider trophy, one of two highly experimental italian aircraft that, perhaps not surprisingly, didn’t make it to the contest!
A high wing cantilever monoplane in which the floats were replaced by hydrofoils to reduce weight and whetted area when airborne. The Isotta-Fraschini motor had two clutches- one drove a water propeller at the rear to raise the wings and fuselage out of the water sufficiently to enable the second clutch to the two bladed propeller at the front of the fuselage at which point the aircraft would in theory take off. One account says that Warrant officer Dal Molin tried to make a take off but found it impossible to juggle the two clutches simultaneously as well as keep the aircraft straight and level on the foils. The aim was to have a dead stick landing with the airscrew held horizontal.
Attched is a photo of a large scale model made that was also tested on Lake garda before the full scale craft was built
By: turbo_NZ - 10th September 2004 at 05:23
Okay,
it’s an Italian PC.7 built by Piaggio-FIAT Hydro foil experimental aircraft of the ’30s
By: Jimw - 9th September 2004 at 23:13
Yup, getting warmer
By: Mark12 - 9th September 2004 at 23:11
Italian? :confused:
Mark
By: Jimw - 9th September 2004 at 23:07
Mark 12,
this was a genuine attempt to produce an aircraft for a particular purpose
Jim
By: Mark12 - 9th September 2004 at 22:58
How long will this one take? What, when where?
Submarines or Human Torpedoes not allowed! 😮
Mark
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