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Title: Oops
Post by microlight on Oct 12^th, 2003 at 5:46pm

I was flying - guess what - a microlight at Popham (near Basingstoke UK) today, and I thought you might enjoy these pics.

The smallest olane I've ever seen:

And - ooops ...

:)

Title: Re: Oops
Post by Hagar on Oct 12^th, 2003 at 5:54pm

Very interesting. looks like you had a nice day for it. ;)
The little plane looks like a Tipsy Nipper. If I'm right it's a fairly old design going back to 1951.

Title: Re: Oops
Post by microlight on Oct 12^th, 2003 at 5:58pm

Excellent weather - just a little bit windy, which made for a bumpy ride, and ... interesting takeoff and landing. Tipsy Nipper, eh. There was a Messerschmitt Taifun there too - did a couple of fast fly-pasts. Very impressive. Was the Taifun a pre-war or post-war plane? Any relation to the Me-109?

:)

Title: Re: Oops
Post by Hagar on Oct 12^th, 2003 at 6:09pm

Great stuff. The Me 108 Taifun was a pre-war light aircraft, also used for liaison work by the Luftwaffe in WWII. According to the designation it precedes the Me (Bf)109. It's quite similar & often used to simulate its big brother in war films.

PS. The one you saw was most likely the Nord N.1000 "Pingouin" which was manufactured in France after WWII. I know there is at least one on the display circuit.

Title: Re: Oops
Post by microlight on Oct 12^th, 2003 at 6:18pm

Thanks, Doug!

Title: Re: Oops
Post by Jared on Oct 15^th, 2003 at 9:16am

Thanks for sharing the pictures! They are very good!

;D

Title: Re: Oops
Post by Polynomial on Oct 19^th, 2003 at 9:15am

nice pics

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Post by GeForce on Oct 19^th, 2003 at 9:55am

Yep, great pics ;D

Title: Re: Oops
Post by codered on Oct 23^rd, 2003 at 1:11pm

There is smaller planes than that. I would never trust something that small or smaller.....