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Old January 13th 09, 02:45 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Nyal Williams[_2_]
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Wow!!!

Three hours and twenty-one minutes in that contraption! Makes today's
pilots who want to do away with the five-hour flight look like wimps.

Look at the pictures on the links below.

At 19:17 12 January 2009, sisu1a wrote:

That was in 1922. =A0Can someone name this machine and point me to a

pict=
ure
of it?


It's undoubtedly the Peyret Tandem Wing. Used to have a great 1922
Aviation Magazine with it on the cover.

http://www.crowncoast.com/nest/weird_08_peyret.htm

http://www.jadu.de/luftfahrt/flugwes...neyrol_jpg.htm

http://www.planadoresjundiai.org.br/mtorretaEA_1.htm

-Paul