'Name The Plane' - ID MAKE And MODEL For Free Bacon! (9.23.11)

Game Over - correctly identified as a the Ray Hegy Chuparosa homebuilt
 

 GAME OVER - Congrats to Bill Rayfield for having the correct answer! Above is the full picture that the cropped picture for the game came from. The airplane is the one-of-a-kind homebuilt built and flown by Ray Hegy and named El Chuparosa (the Spanish word for hummingbird), or sometimes simply as Chuparosa. The airplane was first flown in 1959 and it became a mainstay of the early days of the annual EAA Fly-In and Convention which was held at Rockford Illinois from 1959 until 1970 when it moved to Oshkosh.

 Ray was often the first person up in the air early in the mornings flying this tiny 12 foot 10 inch wingspan Continental A-65 powered cutie around the pattern. In the old days, a large part of the day was taken up by allowing homebuilt, antique or classic airplanes to fly in a pattern around the runway. I remember as a kid hearing Ray streak thru the sky in the early morning as a perfect wake-up call for the day!

 Ray was well known as a wood prop maker, and of course, the prop on El Chuparosa was carved by him. The airplane has been on display in the EAA Museum for many years now. Ray passed away in 2002.

 Here's a pic I posted as a CoolPix a while back of El Chuparosa after the very first Oshkosh in 1970 had ended. Click the pic to go to the full post (with big image) and more info on Ray and his really cool little homebuilt.

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 I'm still trying to make sense of this last week... but in the middle of it all, life seems to go on. With that in mind, I figure it's time for another Name The Plane challenge. All you gotta do is ID both MAKE and MODEL to win a bacon sandwhich prize at OSH12 - and this one should be a pretty good challenge. So, if you've got sharp aircraft ID skills, be the first person to ID both MAKE and MODEL of this aircraft to be the winner! (I'll allow a little room for different interpretations of make and model on this one)

 Your answers must go in the 'comments' area in this post, and as always, please don't use the shotgun approach to answers - only put up truly educated guesses that you've arrived at via really thinking it thru.

 And I'm not sure if I mentioned this already, but to win, you have to give me both the MAKE and MODEL! Have fun : )

Comments

[Bill Rayfield]

Hegy Chuperosa biplane

[Martt (admin)]

Bill Rayfield is correct! This is the really small and very cool one-of-a-kind homebuilt built and flown by Ray Hegy.

[aircraft hose]

I was thinking of a name Airfield Red Bird is that sound good?Is this kind of plane have aircraft hose?