Guess the Aeroplane (just a bit of fun.)

I am guessing by looking at it that it maybe some kind of flying car. Not sure what it is called though.

Don't worry Sarah, I have to look them all up!
It's a Terrafugia Transition, it's Carbon fibre, the wings stow electrically?

Klipkopwildlife wrote: Don't worry Sarah, I have to look them all up!
It's a Terrafugia Transition, it's Carbon fibre, the wings stow electrically?

hehe phew, but I like trying to find them and its all a learning curve.

Spot on, its a car too! I want one, wouldn't need el stupido sat nav if I had one!
www.terrafugia.com/

Your turn Mr Klippy

Something quite special about this guy.

Special?
I suppose it depends on what you mean by 'special'. :huh:
Who made it? What engine it used? How many were made?

Quorneng said - Its obviously a still from a video so a You Tube search for 'Ultralight Glider' found it

But what you didn't get is that it was made by Boeing! (Well, their apprentices!)

Try this one -

Designed IN 1940, one of Kurt Tanks finest, the FW 189 uhu, (owl)

Obviously too easy!

Eric
The video I posted did have "Boeing Co and Flintstone merger" in the opening title.

Ah - missed that, sorry!

This is a bit unusual.

Klippy- Kawasaki Ki-60- which took me onto a whole new level of reading up about inverted-vee liquid-cooled engines arrghhh! Brain freeze! :woohoo:

Well done Willowlea but if you've done the reading as Klippy asked what was 'special' about it?

Quorneng wrote: Well done Willowlea but if you've done the reading as Klippy asked what was 'special' about it?

hmmm ok, well only 3 were made (and not successful either although the design did help improve the Ki-61which followed). At the time Japanese fighter planes were usually light armed, highly manoeuverable (acrobatic style- which is another reason they didnt like it as the KI 60 meant the acrobatics were compromised) with light weight structures- the Ki 60 was different in that it was going to be the opposite, a heavily armed fighter with heavy machine guns meant to be synchronised to fire through the spinning prop blades

Japanese aircraft used air cooled radial engines, the Ki-60 was their first aircraft to use liquid cooled.

ermmm...it failed lol, hence only 3 made, for a number of reasons

take off run for it was too long
it had lateral instability in the air
the controls were too heavy and had a poor response
it had a high stalling speed
it didn't reach the speed when flying they had estimated and was too slow

not sure which bit is the special bit though lol

Well done Sarah, the 'special interest' was the DB601 engine, built under license by the Japanese. ie, a German engined, Japanese fighter!