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Unusual banner tow
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 |
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Unusual banner tow
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/attac...mentid=2011616 Craig |
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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/AAUPi...EagleJesus.jpg Craig |
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Unusual banner tow
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/AAUPi...EagleJesus.jpg Craig |
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Unusual banner tow
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/attac...mentid=2011616 Craig Yep, that's it...thanks. rj |
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Unusual banner tow
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/attac...8d63f62a984b4a... Craig http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contri...Wesch/3166.htm |
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Unusual banner tow
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. |
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