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Thread: The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

  1. #23276
    the picture is from 1980
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  2. #23277
    Surprised our flying wing expert has not nabbed this..

    If this were a colour photo, Uli, would the bands on the winglets be, by any chance, black, red and gold ???

  3. #23278
    not from !
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    It hasn't shown up from a search for flying wings or tailless aircraft yet!
    Keith

  5. #23280
    It looked kind of motorglidery to me so I wandered off the wrong path. But I found it- a Mitchell U2 Superwing.

    http://www.nestofdragons.net/weird-a...itchelwing-u2/

  6. #23281
    Pretty confident so I will press on as I will be away until mid day tomorrow.


    A compact floater up next. Please feel free to move on if you know it!


  7. #23282
    The Mitchell U2 Superwing it is! A big glass to Kevin!
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  8. #23283
    And Kevin's cute wee floater is the Loening Duckling, from 1918.

  9. #23284
    As Kevin indicated we should move on in his absence, and I am 10% sure about the Loening - here's one to keep us going - a rather droopy twin (not difficult !)
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  10. #23285
    Quote Originally Posted by lefty View Post
    ..... I am 10% sure about the Loening .....
    A missing digit?

    The photograph is the first prototype of the 1939 SNCAO CAO.600 torpedo bomber, I believe.
    Last edited by pomme homme; August 1st, 2021 at 04:31.

  11. #23286
    Yes, Mike, typos are the bane of my life and a sure sign of advancing senility. You are of course 100% correct on the SNCAO inverted gullwing. Over to you...

    (by the way, reverting to the Loening Duckling, there was a 1929 amphibian by Loening also called Duckling - I can find nothing about it other than what is on Aerofiles. Anybody ?)

  12. #23287
    No luck yet on the 1929 Duckling.

  13. #23288
    While were also looking for 1929 Duckling.

    Anyone have a pix of Luscombe XT8E NX2788K first flight 1947. 3 built?

    Chris

  14. #23289
    Thank you, Mike, and my apologies for the delay. I've been busy with the rams!

    This was a one off and, if not for the depth of knowledge here, I might get away with this curveball!


  15. #23290
    Curveball indeed ! I'll plunge in - it looks like a modified Dassault 316T single-fin version, but with the SNECMA-Renault engines. However, the square windows are the real mystery....and the very short fuselage !

  16. #23291
    Dassault MD.312B no 01 F-WCZN
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  17. #23292
    Mike was close but Uli has it.

    It is the Dassault MD.312B F-WCZN with a pair of 580 hp SNECMA 12S engines. Even that ugly great tail doesn't distract from the obvious Flamant fuselage shape!

    The later MD.316T looked rather different, with two 800 hp Wright C7BA radial engines, eight round windows on each side of the fuselage and a revised nose undercarriage arrangement.

    Over to Germany!

  18. #23293
    Thank you Mike

    Continue with something more minimalist
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  19. #23294
    To help you: Power comes from a Revmaster 2100-D and the design is based on a VERY famous aircraft
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  20. #23295
    My first thought was some kind of Bede offshoot.

  21. #23296
    you are on a good track!
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    The only relevant thing I could find is the Mace M-102 "Scorchy" (N5588N) but haven't found a pic of it yet so I won't bet heavily on the outcome.

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    Thanks Uli. That pic was a rare find

    Let's try this - it's a museum piece and a recreation but the original flew ("hopped") way back when...
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  25. #23300
    Must be the Gibson Twinplane 1910 replica.

    Putnam's Canadian volume said it crashed into some oak trees after staggering about in a crosswind. William Gibson was unhurt but the machine was damaged beyond repair.

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