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The Jane's entry is the only thing that I've been able to find on the Aeroneering Miller Lil Rascal. Supposedly, a biplane designed for "home"-building in schools. Did it ever exist??? --Rlandmann 02:23, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

The only reference to it on Google appears to be these articles ! Are there any more clues in the Janes entry? MilborneOne 19:22, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Very little! Its appearance in the Jane's volume should mean that it appeared in All the World's Aircraft one year before 1980 - but which one? The full entry (p.31) reads:

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Aeroneering Miller Lil' Rascal (USA) Two-seat sporting biplane designed to be constructed by amateurs and schools. Powered by one 63.5 kW (85 hp) Continental C85-8 flat-four engine or a 67 kW (90 hp) Franklin engine.

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That's it! What has me baffled is its absence from some of the sites that do usually have exhaustive coverage of obscure types - aerofiles (since it was American) and HOAE (since it was to be powered by a flat-4). This makes me think it was vapourware, or in my more fanciful moments, even a spurious entry inserted to catch copyright infringers (the way that street directory publishers purportedly do!) --Rlandmann 19:48, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

I suggest that we move it from this list and park it somewhere in a to difficult list. This would make topic 1 100% !!. MilborneOne 20:32, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

I was thinking that too - but wonder whether it's better to leave it here in the hopes that it would attract more attention from anyone who could help, since it begs the question "Why only 99.6%?" - sand for the oyster! :) What do you think? --Rlandmann 21:04, 1 May 2007 (UTC)