On 30 May 2007 05:47:05 -0700, "
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On May 30, 12:58 am, Ruediger LANDMANN wrote:
I came across a reference to the Aeroneering Miller Lil Rascal in Jane's
Encyclopedia of Aviation; which pretty much just says that it was a
biplane intended for building at home or in schools. I can't find any
other reference to this - does anyone here know anything more about it?

It may have been nothing more than a proposed design. It might have
been even less than that: I'm listed as a vendor in the program for
the French space program vendors' show in about 1990, because I wrote
to them asking about the show.

The idea that it might be a copyright trick is a good one, and lacking
other data on the design, is what I'd assume to be the answer.

I've got the EAA Sport Aviation on CD-ROM, and I get zero hits for "Rascal" in
the title of any articles. "Aeroneering" also doesn't get any hits, either in
the titles or in the text of the articles.

"Miller" in the title gets ten hits. Three dealing with the Miller Brewing
Company, two dealing with a "Miller Sport", described as a "Poor Man's U-2"
(doesn't sound like a biplane...). There's a reference to Miller lightplanes
built in the 1920s, a Miller SX-300, the Miller JM-2 (the blurb refers to
fallout from high-speed technology), a replica Bleriot built by a guy named
Miller, and a Cessna U-3A owned by Dave Miller.

"Rascal" occurs in the text of 16 articles. The three-line blurbs that
accompany each item don't seem to point to specific airplanes, it appears that
the word is probably used as an adjective.

The "Rascal" search does show a hit in an article about a small biplane, but
there's no mention of Miller, Aeroneering, etc., and the reference to "Rascal"
is in just one sentence: "...we are in the act of flying away the time
restrictions on the bipe and getting to know the little rascal more intimately."

I glanced through some of my other old-homebuilt references, didn't find any
mention of it.

What's bothering me, though, is the feeling that the name is familiar. Perhaps
it was the sort of vaporware plane Popular Mechanics was featuring on covers in
the '60s.

Of course, I might just be getting distracted by the Sig radio controlled model
of the same name....

Ron Wanttaja