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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Looks like a Bede pusher to me.

I put "Masschelein Mass-302" into Google and absolutely nothing came up. :dizzy:
 
Hi Jevin:encouragement:
The pic was taken by a friend many years ago through the hangar door windows. I guess the Mass 302 was not really succesful. I agree it looks like the BD-5, but had a composite material consruction.
To keep me busy, here is the next challenge. A clearer pic would immediately give away the identity.
 

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A brief aside, if you'll permit me. The aeroplane whose photo appears in post #12954 (07.06.16), which was identified as the Guédon Monoplane (an identity with which then I concurred), may not, in fact, be that. In consequence of my rather sablier-centric research of this week, I'm now of the opinion that it may, in fact, be the Sablier Avionnette Biplace of 1936 (q.v. http://claudel.dopp.free.fr/Les_planeurs/Histoire/Georges_Sablier/Georges_Sablier_machines.htm).
 
Can't decide if the prop arc is 4 or 5 bladed. Going by how the wheels are not fully retracted out of view, it might be the Breda Zappata Bz 308?


Wow Mike, that Sablier link you provided above is a treasure trove of rare photos and info. Thanks!
 
Moses03 said:
Can't decide if the prop arc is 4 or 5 bladed. Going by how the wheels are not fully retracted out of view, it might be the Breda Zappata Bz 308?


Wow Mike, that Sablier link you provided above is a treasure trove of rare photos and info. Thanks!
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Let me concur with Moses if I may, the pointed nose gives it away as a Breda Zappata 308....
Cheers
BG
 
Hi Kevin:encouragement:
The BZ-308 it is :very_drunk:
Please see this photo. Did not know that the designation (at least in this pic) was written as B.Z.308

Your turn, please
 

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Thanks Walter. Such a beautiful airliner. Shame it didn't go into production.


Here is one that had a couple of different names. Any will do!

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Thanks BG -here's one that has appeared before but still interesting - looks like a floater but........
 

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Weymann WEL-50. As the photo appears to have been taken at the Paris salon, I assume that it's not the slightly more successful WEL-52.

Edit - no, it seems that I'm wrong. I've just found a copy of that photo and it's captioned as the WEL-52!
 
52 it is - the wee wheels at the front always seem a tad pessimistic to me - M. Weymann must have known some pretty dodgy pilots in his time !

Over to rustic Gallic bliss.......:very_drunk:
 
lefty said:
52 it is - the wee wheels at the front always seem a tad pessimistic to me - M. Weymann must have known some pretty dodgy pilots in his time !

Over to rustic Gallic bliss.......:very_drunk:
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Just for closing this file: I have it as Weymann-Lepère 52 "Aeromobile"....
Cheers
BG
 
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