CMC Leopard video

[TobyV]

Aplogies if this has been posted before!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbZBhNoPV7o

Sound is only available in the engine startup scene unfortunately. Looks rather good fun this, shame it didn't get any further.

[DaveB]

WOW! Tks for that Toby. Can't recall having seen it before

ATB

DaveB

[Kevin Farnell]

I recall seeing one (or at lest a mock up) at Farnborough some years ago.
I visited my uncle, in Bournemouth earlier this year and saw one (painted red) sat on a roundabout

Kevin

[DaveB]

Eek.. that film never showed a VTOL version



ATB

DaveB

[dodger]

Hi,

A bit late but the first prototype flew 22years ago yesterday, 12th December 1988, the second flew on the 2nd June 2009.


Ian Chichester-Miles, the chap behind the project, was another one of our great forward thinking people in the our aircraft industry in the UK, as usual it all went to Pot like many other aircraft projects in this country of ours!

Roger.

[jonesey2k]

Why wasn't that put into production? There are loads of VLJ's knocking about these days and this is by far the best looking!
Another British masterpiece down the toilet...

[robcarrich]

The second prototype is now in the main hanger, with wings removed, at the Midland Air Museum.

[DaveB]

How longs it been there Rob??

ATB

DaveB

[robcarrich]

Hi Dave,
Not sure how long its been there but I saw it when I went along last year to have a look at their Gannet, I remember thinking, that would make a nice model.
I think it first flew in 1997 and, according to the museum website, made 84 development flights.
It seemed very small, I thought at first it was just a model, but that may have been because it was on low trestles, obviously it was not standing on it’s main gears, having had the wings removed.

Regards
Rob

[TobyV]

Hi Dave, its been there at least the lat (two?) times I was at the Midland Air Museum, so guessing something between 12 and 18 months. It went there after Bournemouth's museum closed.

I was hoping the comment about the other one being painted red and being by a roundabout wasn't actually the case, but a quick google turned up this:

http://factoidz.com/the-cmc-leopard-a-j ... e-highway/