Unusual banner tow

[Ralph Jones[_2_]]

Saw an odd airplane towing a banner over downtown Denver today. It was
a biplane, with a higher aspect ratio than I've ever seen on such a
machine. And the leading edges were swept over about the outer third
of the span...it looked for all the world like two Discus wings
grafted onto a Jungmeister fuselage. Anybody know what this thing was?

Incidentally, the banner carried the logo of FirstBank, and read "This
is the closest thing we have to a private jet". And just to drive the
message home a bit more, the airplane emitted a puff of black smoke
every so often...

rj

[Craig[_2_]]

On Apr 10, 5:18*pm, Ralph Jones > wrote:
> Saw an odd airplane towing a banner over downtown Denver today. It was
> a biplane, with a higher aspect ratio than I've ever seen on such a
> machine. And the leading edges were swept over about the outer third
> of the span...it looked for all the world like two Discus wings
> grafted onto a Jungmeister fuselage. Anybody know what this thing was?
>
> Incidentally, the banner carried the logo of FirstBank, and read "This
> is the closest thing we have to a private jet". And just to drive the
> message home a bit more, the airplane emitted a puff of black smoke
> every so often...
>
> rj

DW-1 Eagle?
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/attachment.php?s=237c1b38d63f62a984b4a2e732f4098a&attachmentid=2011616

Craig

[Craig[_2_]]

On Apr 10, 5:18*pm, Ralph Jones > wrote:
> Saw an odd airplane towing a banner over downtown Denver today. It was
> a biplane, with a higher aspect ratio than I've ever seen on such a
> machine. And the leading edges were swept over about the outer third
> of the span...it looked for all the world like two Discus wings
> grafted onto a Jungmeister fuselage. Anybody know what this thing was?
>
> Incidentally, the banner carried the logo of FirstBank, and read "This
> is the closest thing we have to a private jet". And just to drive the
> message home a bit more, the airplane emitted a puff of black smoke
> every so often...
>
> rj

and a picture
http://www.agairupdate.com/aau/AAUPictureArchive/pictures/EagleJesus.jpg
Craig

[Fred Blair]

If it was anything along the design of the Jungmeister, it probably had some
swept edges somewhere. A friend of mine built a Bucker Jungmeister while I
was in high school and he was showing me in the blueprints that every angle
on the aircraft was 13 degrees; it was like the designer had only one
measuring device and it was cut at 13 degrees. Even the control stick had
several joints that were each 13 degrees.

"Craig" > wrote in message
...
On Apr 10, 5:18 pm, Ralph Jones > wrote:
> Saw an odd airplane towing a banner over downtown Denver today. It was
> a biplane, with a higher aspect ratio than I've ever seen on such a
> machine. And the leading edges were swept over about the outer third
> of the span...it looked for all the world like two Discus wings
> grafted onto a Jungmeister fuselage. Anybody know what this thing was?
>
> Incidentally, the banner carried the logo of FirstBank, and read "This
> is the closest thing we have to a private jet". And just to drive the
> message home a bit more, the airplane emitted a puff of black smoke
> every so often...
>
> rj

and a picture
http://www.agairupdate.com/aau/AAUPictureArchive/pictures/EagleJesus.jpg
Craig

[Ralph Jones[_2_]]

On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:32:52 -0700 (PDT), Craig
> wrote:

>On Apr 10, 5:18*pm, Ralph Jones > wrote:
>> Saw an odd airplane towing a banner over downtown Denver today. It was
>> a biplane, with a higher aspect ratio than I've ever seen on such a
>> machine. And the leading edges were swept over about the outer third
>> of the span...it looked for all the world like two Discus wings
>> grafted onto a Jungmeister fuselage. Anybody know what this thing was?
>>
>> Incidentally, the banner carried the logo of FirstBank, and read "This
>> is the closest thing we have to a private jet". And just to drive the
>> message home a bit more, the airplane emitted a puff of black smoke
>> every so often...
>>
>> rj
>
>DW-1 Eagle?
>http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/attachment.php?s=237c1b38d63f62a984b4a2e732f4098a&attachmentid=2011616
>
>Craig

Yep, that's it...thanks.

rj

[Dave Nadler]

On Apr 11, 2:32*am, Craig > wrote:
> On Apr 10, 5:18*pm, Ralph Jones > wrote:
>
> > Saw an odd airplane towing a banner over downtown Denver today. It was
> > a biplane, with a higher aspect ratio than I've ever seen on such a
> > machine. And the leading edges were swept over about the outer third
> > of the span...it looked for all the world like two Discus wings
> > grafted onto a Jungmeister fuselage. Anybody know what this thing was?
>
> > Incidentally, the banner carried the logo of FirstBank, and read "This
> > is the closest thing we have to a private jet". And just to drive the
> > message home a bit more, the airplane emitted a puff of black smoke
> > every so often...
>
> > rj
>
> DW-1 Eagle?http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/attachment.php?s=237c1b38d63f62a984b4a...
>
> Craig

http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/Wesch/3166.htm

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Bellanca built them. In fact the type certificate and production
tooling is for sale if you want to own an aircraft factory. The use
wooden wings like the vikings. Operators say they have a wonderful
spray pattern.