Ah, thanks for the clarification on that.
I was just taking the word of a couple of articles I found relating to it, I didn’t have too much time to dive deep into it when I made my initial post.
Some absolutely lovely machines doing their thing and you’ve captured them very well. Thanks for sharing.
They certainly were built sturdy. I’m not sure about aerobatics, the wing was optimised for low speed and low altitude operations. These days they get a fair bit of use as glider tugs.
As a crop duster by design, they pretty much had to be tough enough to handle rough field operations and all the other things that come with agricultural work.
It’s only ugly until you see the turboprop version of it, that’s hideous!
It was quite impressive to watch it landing yesterday, it did quite a short final in some nasty crosswinds and was rock solid all the way down.
In comparison, the crosswinds were giving the Cessna flyers a good tossing around and even more so to a Piper 28.
Tricky….
I want to say a Morane-Saulnier or Deperdussin design; but it’s not entirely right for either.
It’s at the air museum in Olomouc, Czech Republic.
Gerard gave you a link to some of my photos over on Britmodeller.
Here’s a link to my write up about it on my blog. In the blog entry, you’ll find links to the museum’s web site and Facebook page:
http://pickledwings.wordpress.com/museums/czech-museums/olomouc-air-museum-olomouc-czech-republic/
Staying on the theme of nose jobs, Here’s an Avia Av-14FG:

The Piaggio P.180 Avanti is a pusher prop and seems to be successful, there’s a fair number of them flying and it’s still in production so far as I know.
Does anyone know if any companies out there are still experimenting with unducted fan engines, or was that just a fad that died quietly?