Payen Pa 49 "Katy", 1954
An all-wood, tail-less, delta-winged, turbojet powered, experimental aircraft, and a very weird-looking one too.
I haven't managed to figure out what this was for. The wing design seems to be for high performance, even supersonic aircraft. But with its non-retractable main undercarriage, the plane reached a cruise speed of only 350 km/h and a maximum speed of 500 km/h, so it would never be possible to test the airframe at transsonic, let alone supersonic speeds.
Some experimental early jet planes from the 1940s looked pretty weird. But by the mid-1950s aircraft design had moved on.
I wonder who "Katy" was, though?
Musée de l'air et de l'espace, Paris, France.
Camera: Nikon FM2n
Lens: Cosina Voigtländer Ultron 40 f/2 SL II ASPH
Film: Kodak Portra 400 professional grade colour negative film
Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de
Payen Pa 49 "Katy", 1954
An all-wood, tail-less, delta-winged, turbojet powered, experimental aircraft, and a very weird-looking one too.
I haven't managed to figure out what this was for. The wing design seems to be for high performance, even supersonic aircraft. But with its non-retractable main undercarriage, the plane reached a cruise speed of only 350 km/h and a maximum speed of 500 km/h, so it would never be possible to test the airframe at transsonic, let alone supersonic speeds.
Some experimental early jet planes from the 1940s looked pretty weird. But by the mid-1950s aircraft design had moved on.
I wonder who "Katy" was, though?
Musée de l'air et de l'espace, Paris, France.
Camera: Nikon FM2n
Lens: Cosina Voigtländer Ultron 40 f/2 SL II ASPH
Film: Kodak Portra 400 professional grade colour negative film
Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de