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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

I've just realised my error in abusing Shakespeare. I should, of course, have resorted to the work of another poet. That would have been far more appropriate having regard to the fact that it was his day yesterday. But having searched through his works, I've found nothing that even approximates to Romano. I could have tried the addition of a Mc prefix. But that would have been more McGonagall than Burns. Oh, and we did have home made haggis for supper, but it had to be washed down with home made mirabelle plum eau de vie (Calvados - a spirit from too far north for us down here in Deux Sèvres) due to a lack of Laphroaig in the cellar!
 
Shakespeare aside, this sleek monoplane set several records in 1938. Then the war came along...

(I think a couple of you are being a bit modest here).
 
Moses03 said:
The beautiful shiny 370 it is.:very_drunk: Over to you BG.
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Thanks Moses a beautiful craft was the 370!
And here goes another floater (sorry for the grainy pic!).....
Cheers
BG
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Thanks BG - more of a slider than a floater, eh ? (they even removed the wing floats.....)

Here's a complicated-looking powerplant - on what ?
 

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Hi Mike:encouragement:
May just lucky, but just was on another site and stumbled upon the Vega Starliner with the experimental Menasco Unitwin engine.
Is that shown in your picture?
 
Indeed, Walter, you stumbled correctly ! Vega Starliner (sounds like a rock band) she is........:very_drunk:
 

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Thank you Mike:encouragement:
Found info on the Vega/Menasco on oldmachinepress.com/articles/page8
Lots of info on (old) planes, engines. cars, car engines etc and very nice HD quality photos on this site.

Will post next challenge shortly.
 
A small flying wing. Up to 3 countries were "involved" with this one-of.
 

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The Horten H-XVK. Was designed in Argentina then built in Germany (D-9003) with the first flight in 1952. It ended up in Switzerland with a Continental 65 added to it registered as HB-SAA.:dizzy:
 
Struggling a bit here, but the nearest I can get is the Huff-Daland Panther with some extra hardware in the rear seat !
 
Somewhat bemused by the silence.

This is an admittedly rare float-equipped variant of a machine that was built in very large numbers* in several countries ! (*i.e. 4 figures.....)
 
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