'Name The Plane' - ID MAKE And MODEL For Free Bacon! (8.16.12)
Thursday, August 16, 2012 at 12:04PM 
(click pic to enlarge) Hot homebuilt from the 60's - Ed Lesher's record setting Teal
GAME OVER - correctly ID'd by 'seerjfly' as the Lesher Teal
I really thought my cropped pic below would last at least 24 hours in the Name The Plane game that I put up at lunchtime today. I was wrong. In a little over an hour, 'seerjfly' offered up the correct answer of the Lesher Teal. Getting this airplane correct from that cropped pic is definitely worthy of the bacon sandwich prize at OSH13!
I have lots of memories of seeing this little all-metal one-of-a-kind homebuilt from the mid 60's out on the flightline at Oshkosh in the early 70's. I spent a lot of time looking over the details, and it inspired a whole lot of thinking in my not-yet-a-teen head. I think this airplane deserves a lot more attention than it typically gets... hopefully one of these days I'll have the opportunity to put together a really detailed post on both Ed Lesher and his 500kg class (1,102 lb) record-setting Teal. This little Continental O-200 powered airplane set a lot of closed course records, and near the end of it's record days, in 1975, set the straight line distance record of 1,835 miles!
Ed Lesher passed away in 1998 at age 83. I never knew him, but his little aluminum pusher with the odd retractable landing gear sure was an important part of my early days of learning about home-built (and home-designed) airplanes. His children donated the airplane the EAA Museum in 2002.
You can learn more in this wiki page about about Ed Lesher and some cool record-setting details about the Teal in this page from the EAA Musuem.
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GAME OVER - correctly ID'd by 'seerjfly' as the Lesher Teal
You never know when I'll feel the urge to throw up a little Name The Plane action here on AirPigz. Usually it happens on a Saturday night, but here we are on a Thursday in the middle of day with a new game popping up... and it's also your first chance to win a bacon sandwhich at OSH13! The first correct answer in the comments area below (with both make and model) wins a tasty bacon sandwich at next year's Oshkosh.
I've dug deep into aviation history with this challenge, and I'm specifically hoping that no one comes up with a correct answer in the typical 45 minutes or less. I'd be very happy if we get 24 hours out of this game : )
All you gotta do is ID both MAKE and MODEL to win - 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!
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, but to win, you have to give me both the MAKE and MODEL! : )
NTP Email Article
Reader Comments (8)
Hughes H-1?
Craig - nope
Sud-Ouest Triton?
Jason - very cool guess, but nope
Lesher Teal.
seerjfly - Wow, very impressive! And yes, it indeed the Lesher Teal... well done my avgeek friend : )
I did'nt google it either ! : ) If I'd have seen fit to read your entire post before answering, I'd have held off. : )
Impressive, seerjfly.
Beautiful plane.