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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Dave, a wee hint - if you leave the reg. on, it makes it terribly easy to google it and come up with the answer !
In this case, I recognised the RAE Zephyr anyway, (honest) but it is quite OK to photoshop out registrations, service markings, etc as long as you don't alter the structure of the aircraft.
 
Hmm, still smarting over Moses' Chinese horror - no mention of that in my Chinese tomes - BAH !


How about an odd chopper....
 
Certainly a difficult view to work from.

The machine is not American, Canadian or Italian.

It was a service type in modest numbers for its time.

It was powered by a 220 hp 6 cyl engine and comes from a manufacturer that is not obscure but is certainly not among the best known of its day.

This photo is on the web.

Dave
 
Has a German feel to me despite the roundels. Not sure at all. Would be nice to see the empennage if possible.
 
There are other images available.

This one may be of some use. If not, I will post another in a couple of hours or so.

Dave
 
The manufacturer is probably best known for an earlier product.

Here, however, is a nice photo of our Challenge machine.

Dave
 
Thanks. In the first photo you posted, I though that was a gun sticking up from the front of the fuselage, not an exhaust stack. That led me astray for a while.

Oddball time!
 
It was featured in Popular Mechanics but better known as the Farnham FC-1 Flycycle. Have a cold one! :icon29:

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<SMALL>"Lawrence Farnham, Fort Collins CO.</SMALL>
FC-1 Fly-Cycle 1954 = 1pOlwM; 75hp Continental A-75; span: 29'7" length: 19'0" v: 85/x/30 range: 150. A genuine flying motorbike; the pilot had no cockpit, but rode the plane sitting astride the fuselage with his feet resting on the wings. Control was by means of handlebars and a twist-grip trottle in the right grip. As a "working" plane, containers for crop-spraying could be carried in its wings. [N201A]."
 
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