Today's Wazzit!

[richard C]

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Did a cessna 210 and Lancair Evolution spend a night unsupervised together in a closed hanger

my thoughts exactly !!! What happens when you don't put on the gasket.

[Argonaught]

Is this aircraft related to Comp Air by any chance?

[Whirly]

Few years ago I saw a 210 kit that was available in Kitplanes. Maybe someone actually built one. I can't remember what the specs were or what exactly it looked like.

Whirly.

[Mike Wissing]

The airplane I posted is a prototype, designed as a possible replacement for the CIA’s stealth observation airplane based on s Schweitzer sailplane the Lockheed YO-3 Quiet Star.

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I doubt anyone will get what it is, so I’ll end the pain now.
It is a Nighthawk QS3, and I was blessed to see her maiden flight right here in my hometown of Bend, Oregon - KBDN. Website below. It is a remarkable airplane with two engines. One is turbo diesel, and the other a small jet housed in the rear fuselage if it’s needed in an emergency. The crew it one behind the other……

https://nighthawkaircraftllc.com/specifications/

[Fransw]

The airplane I posted is a prototype, designed as a possible replacement for the CIA’s stealth observation airplane based on s Schweitzer sailplane the Lockheed YO-3 Quiet Star.

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I doubt anyone will get what it is, so I’ll end the pain now.
It is a Nighthawk QS3, and I was blessed to see her maiden flight right here in my hometown of Bend, Oregon - KBDN. Website below. It is a remarkable airplane with two engines. One is turbo diesel, and the other a small jet housed in the rear fuselage if it’s needed in an emergency. The crew it one behind the other……

https://nighthawkaircraftllc.com/specifications/

Interesting aircraft. Do you have any idea what turbo diesel engine they used?

[ddevos]

Interesting aircraft. Do you have any idea what turbo diesel engine they used?

According to the spec list on their website, it's the Safran SR305-260E, 260 HP.

[Ugly Duckling]

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Night Hawk NH1
https://nighthawkaircraftllc.com/

[Volo]

As you say Mike - This aircraft had its origins in a converted Schweizer 232 sailplane that the US used to patrol the Mekong river at night in the latter part of the Vietnam War.
It was said to be inaudible @ 100 metres above the river .
I think it had a Lycoming motor suitably muffled driving a large 6 blade wooden propeller on a pylon .
I think the SAAF acquired the one and only Schweizer 232 in South Africa during the 70s in a bid to create our own stealth patrol , however I don't know what happened to it .
I flew the 232 before it went missing .

[Volo]

Wazzit with a difference .. the name / registration and even c/n is known.
What is not known is who the manufacturer was.
14 of these microlights were registered on the SA Register during the early 80's so its not a one off
The remains of Grasshopper Microlight ZS-UWF c/n 37 at Krugersdorp Airfield FAKR
31 Oct 2024

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Horrid little thing - looked the same before or after the accident which was always a certainty .

[Fransw]

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[ddevos]

Somehow we keep on bumping into aircraft I've never heard of before, this time the Beardmore Inflexible / Rohrbach Ro VI Transport.

https://oldmachinepress.com/2020/11/

[richard C]

Fascinating !!!

[Bearcat]

Somehow we keep on bumping into aircraft I've never heard of before, this time the Beardmore Inflexible / Rohrbach Ro VI Transport.

https://oldmachinepress.com/2020/11/

Agreed.. that was a very good Wazzit .. I had never heard of this aircraft before

[Fransw]

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[ddevos]

I guess this is what you get when a shipbuilding company starts building aircraft, they have come up with some VERY weird designs during WW II. They also built thousands of aircraft for other companies. This one is the Blohm & Voss BV P.111, below you can see how very weird the layout was...