By: Mark12 - 26th June 2005 at 22:19
Well its a rotol prop and hub, maybe one of the post war Howard Hughes machines with a griffin prop grafted onto a Radial.
Zute
Please see post#43
Mark
By: Zute - 26th June 2005 at 22:10
Well its a rotol prop and hub, maybe one of the post war Howard Hughes machines with a griffin prop grafted onto a Radial.
By: David Burke - 26th June 2005 at 21:44
I seem to remember it visited the U.K (Filton) a couple of times and may well have been in the 1979 Ian Allan special on Bristol engines.
By: EHVB - 26th June 2005 at 17:23
It ended its career into military/governemental use. Here it is in full military livery. BW Roger
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 24th June 2005 at 23:15
Which foot?
The twelve inch one.
By: ZRX61 - 24th June 2005 at 20:52
Nike?
Which foot?
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 24th June 2005 at 20:23
oh yeah, ok my turn, Identify this “trainer”
Nike?
By: ZRX61 - 24th June 2005 at 20:22
Look again – racer’s in quotes.
oh yeah, ok my turn, Identify this “trainer”
By: Mark12 - 24th June 2005 at 20:14
Which promptly negates the entire bloody *test* :rolleyes:
ZRX61,
I fear you are taking this far to seriously. 🙂
Who can forget the air racing DC-7 howling round the pylons?
Mark
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 24th June 2005 at 17:41
Hm, too bad there isn’t one of those still about. Aesthetically it looks like a mix of 049 Connie and DH91, with four Fury engines! Yum. How many were built?
S.
This may be a wild guess but I would say less than two!
By: Steve T - 24th June 2005 at 17:24
Now that’s a propliner…
Hm, too bad there isn’t one of those still about. Aesthetically it looks like a mix of 049 Connie and DH91, with four Fury engines! Yum. How many were built?
S.
By: dhfan - 24th June 2005 at 15:46
Look again – racer’s in quotes.
By: ZRX61 - 24th June 2005 at 15:41
Did I say ‘Racer’? Sorry, I meant ‘Racy’.
Which promptly negates the entire bloody *test* :rolleyes:
By: dhfan - 24th June 2005 at 15:04
I’ve got the book but it didn’t ring any bells with me. 🙁
By: JDK - 24th June 2005 at 13:57
Cooo! Never seen that one before.
On the Christmas list I think.
Nice one Mark.
Rats.
By: turbo_NZ - 24th June 2005 at 13:57
I must say, that is one good-looking aircraft !!
TNZ
By: HP57 - 24th June 2005 at 13:43
Yes, that’s the one I meant. But the name? must be because it’s so hot here that the brain becomes twisted and associates the need for ice with an Italian aircraft manufacturer 😀
Cheers
Cees
By: Mark12 - 24th June 2005 at 13:38
‘Racy’ little Italian beauty
The Breda-Zappata BZ308 seen here in Italy with Dowty Rotol technicians in 1948. The gentleman with arms folded is Ted Edwards.
Note the ‘Bungee Launch’ in the third image. 🙂
These photos are from the late Robert Rudhall Collection and clearly sourced from Dowty-Rotol. Further reference can be found in the book ‘Rotol – The History Of An Airscrew Company’ by Bruce Stait.
Did I say ‘Racer’? Sorry, I meant ‘Racy’. 😉
Mark
By: Swiss Mustangs - 24th June 2005 at 13:35
Breda Zappata 308 Airliner project – first flight August 1948, sold to the Air Force.
By: Mark12 - 24th June 2005 at 12:25
Nearly there.
Could it be the postwar Italian civilian four-engined passenger aircraft which had four fivebladed props. Caproni (Campini) something. I remember seing a drawing of one when I just started to get interesting in aircraft in the early eighties.
Cees
Do you know Cees, I think you are getting remarkably close there?
“Just one Cornetto” 🙂
Mark
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