This Aeropter was a design by a dear friend of mine, Sqd. Ldr. (ret'd John Crampton (a cold war flying ace), now in his 90's, if he's stil around.
He had designed a lot of planes through the years, almost all wit fixed slots, and so had the Aeropter - but the engine arrangement was simila to this one:
Australian Peter Evans have added a nose wing, and twin tails, whil John's, if my memory serves me right, looked like Cessna 150, withou an engine in the nose. The shaft was mounted spot on the CG, so th batteries were in the extreme nose!
A guy how made a VTOL craft was Australian Don Incoll, who design a lo of weird (like the Ninja Star) and less weird planes (like the Horne Wasp, the father of all 3-D planes).
He had one design that took of vertically, and I think managed t convert to horizontal flight, but not the other way ....
Anyway, while in the middle off its developement he disappeared fro the net, and stopped answering mails, et cetera.
I think John and Don exchanged a few letters, after I establishe contact between the two.
Maybe got ill, tired, och died - nobody seems to know!
Tord S Eriksson, tord At tord dot nu
PS This is my own try at a STOL, which had adjustable wing incidence:
-- Tor
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