Thanks for posting that – I have this strange affection for those little industrial saddle tanks.
Excellent to see that your empennage access facilitator is the bees knees 😀
Excellent update – you and your fellow team members are doing a wonderful job.
A delight to see as usual. Keep up the good (and entertaining) work.
Have you accessed the monographs by Ian Baker?
Completely agree – that’s why its called the Knapkinwaffe. The Cold War forced development of advanced types shows just how long it took to bring a small fraction of radical designs into production and that was in a period of peace. Anyone can sketch an “aircraft” shape with radical features, but the really really hard part is getting it to the flyable and useful stage. One wonders how much of the Nazi war effort was wasted by designers playing with this fantasy stuff when the Allies were winning the war by showing just how real aircraft production works. One such design for example is the Osprey – decades of experimental work before it was turned into a relatively useful product.
Aptly called the Knapkinwaffe 😀
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Good luck to you – keep it going. The longer the bucket list the greater the enjoyment. 🙂
Don Gentile managed to do the same thing but survived.
The fact that there were 30 or 40 odd people living on the island at the time running a copra plantation, including their European overseer, I would have thought that someone somewhere might have noticed the event occurring. And to cap that the commander of the search aircraft flight that arrived a couple of days after her disappearance actually landed in the lagoon and spoke with the overseer who didn’t even understand what all the fuss was about as they hadn’t seen a thing. But then in the world of Earhart theories perhaps I am being a little too sensible.
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That’s fantastic – looking better and better with every post.
Getting better every time we see it.
Wonderful – lovely to see more updates and progress.