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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

My last try Vickers Type 178 Mk.III Valpa raiso built in Portugal with Gnome-Rhone Jupiter engine
Cheers
Carlo

After all the scruffy gang looks awfully portuguese!
 
I have to say that I found myself thinking Spanish Civil War republicans - which, if so, would open a veritable Pandora's Box when one has regard to the aeroplanes which they used!
 
I'm going to give this to Carlo for sheer persistence, also because he at least got the manufacturer right !

Those gentlemen are Bolivian, and it's a Vickers Vespa, of which they had four, I think.

Over from a wet Fife to, I imagine, a slightly sunnier Tuscany...:very_drunk:
 

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lefty said:
I'm going to give this to Carlo for sheer persistence, also because he at least got the manufacturer right !

Those gentlemen are Bolivian, and it's a Vickers Vespa, of which they had four, I think.

Over from a wet Fife to, I imagine, a slightly sunnier Tuscany...:very_drunk:
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Thanks for your benevolence Lefty...however it's getting late here and I'll revert Tomorrow morning with a new mystery….thanks!
Cheers
Carlo
 
Thank you, Carlo. Initially I took myself on a wild goose chase, convinced that it was a German akaflieg aeroplane. Then I noticed that it was a sesquiplane, rather than a biplane, which led me to Pander.

Now here's another picture with both aeronautical and automotive interest .....

 
I have it as the NVI Carley C.1 Baby of 1922. But having regard to how confused is the aeronautical nomenclature of this period (even allowing for the fact that this one is Dutch rather than French!), I think it highly probable that it also was known as Carley C.12. So over to you, Uli.

p.s. I've no idea what the car is - but hopefully not a Carleycar!
 
and here comes a contemporary which, to my knowledge, isn’t another Carley:
 

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Thanks. Here is a similar design which came later.

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It's listed at Aerofiles but under the registration only. Odd that.

There was a later version with a windscreen and wheel pants. Circa 1931 Oklahoma.
 
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