You haven't seen a Lysander fly? Were you not at Shuttleworth last summer??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWWwsCI0lgk&feature=related - take-off for
Duxford
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgrZTz6PiE8&feature=player_detailpage -
landing at Duxford
And here is a 25-year old clip from BBC2 Timewatch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsqvgPIgMlQ&feature=related
Best I know the Lysander did have leading edge slats,(see at about 7:24 in
the BBC2 clip above) and was a Teddy Petter design - he went on to design
the Canberra and Folland Gnat, similarly "different" (if that concept is
permissible) aircraft. "Over there" you know the Canberra as the Martin
B-57.
I don't know about the insect, but German "Storch" is "Crane" - the bird,
which looks pretty ungainly in flight!
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Barker [mailto:ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 30 August 2011 18:08
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] OT:Mustang overhead
Yes. The Westland Lysander was a similar aircraft, but it had no slats, as
far as I know. But then I haven't seen a working version. And the Storch
flew extremely slowly. We estimated that it landed at around 20mpg
groundspeed, stopping on the grass strip in about 30yds. I have heard that
the Germans called it the Crane Fly and I could see why, watching it fly.
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