- Location
- Fremantle, Western Australia
- Name
- Andrew
Air Asia Indonesia PK-AZE by Andrew Priest, on Flickr
Air Asia Indonesia Airbus A320-200 PK-AZE taxing at DPS
Can you supply more info on this rather interesting looking aircraft please Irene?
Burt Rutan is a "reknown" American aircraft designer known for his unique designs. He was very popular with the Hollywood set.Can you supply more info on this rather interesting looking aircraft please Irene?
Thanks, Chris.Burt Rutan is a "reknown" American aircraft designer known for his unique designs. He was very popular with the Hollywood set.
Burt Rutan - Wikipedia
Asked and answered Your post came through at 2:30am our time while I was sleepingCan you supply more info on this rather interesting looking aircraft please Irene?
We used to make a plane like that here. It was called the Nomad.Asked and answered Your post came through at 2:30am our time while I was sleeping
Of further interest might be that this was the type of plane in which John Denver fatally crashed
Also, around the time of his death, the type of plane he was flying was responsible for 61 accidents, 19 of which were fatal.
At 5:28 PM, as many as a dozen witnesses saw Denver’s experimental Adrian Davis Long EZ (which he owned) take a nose-dive into the ocean.
We used to make a plane like that here. It was called the Nomad.
Yeah, Irene. Thanks but most of them ended up like this:
this one?
That's tragic and sad they were obviously 'lemons'Thanks but most of them ended up like this:
@Richard Check this one out from WW2: Miles M.39B Libellula - WikipediaModern military aircraft have canards (small wings in front of the main wings) like that yellow aircraft to make them highly manoeuvrable for air supremacy - I'm thinking of the Eurofighter Typhoon, Dassault Rafale and Saab Gripen, which all look the same to me. The same canards which allow those aircraft to turn on a sixpence also make them inherently unstable, and they only stay in the air because powerful computers are at work between the pilot's inputs and the control surfaces.
I wonder if the yellow plane and its like, without the benefit of computer assistance, are harder to fly and more likely to bite you than conventional designs?
-R
Odd aircraft with an interesting name, libelula is the Romanian word for Dragonfly or Damselfly.@Richard Check this one out from WW2: Miles M.39B Libellula - Wikipedia