Ugly Airplanes, pt 9 - Stipa.jpg (1/1)

[Mitchell Holman]

[Chris Roy-Smith]

A nice photo of this craft can be found at

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0320209&size=L

It made it a bit more obvious why the body is so deep.
I winder if the duct made anything better.......

[Mitchell Holman]

Chris Roy-Smith > wrote in
:

> A nice photo of this craft can be found at
>
> http://cdn-www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0320209&size=L
>
> It made it a bit more obvious why the body is so deep.
> I winder if the duct made anything better.......


The fact there were no followups or imitators speaks volumes.

[Mike Mackenzie]

Chris Roy-Smith > wrote:

>A nice photo of this craft can be found at
>
>http://cdn-www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0320209&size=L
>
>It made it a bit more obvious why the body is so deep.
>I winder if the duct made anything better.......

Here's a couple more shots of it from different angles, which I took
at Toowoomba a few years ago. Apparently they flew it once, briefly,
but it was so unstable nobody wanted to try again.

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[Peter Hucker[_2_]]

On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:37:44 +1000, Mike Mackenzie >
wrote:

>Chris Roy-Smith > wrote:
>
>>A nice photo of this craft can be found at
>>
>>http://cdn-www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0320209&size=L
>>
>>It made it a bit more obvious why the body is so deep.
>>I winder if the duct made anything better.......
>
>Here's a couple more shots of it from different angles, which I took
>at Toowoomba a few years ago. Apparently they flew it once, briefly,
>but it was so unstable nobody wanted to try again.

There is a special warning sign for them.
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