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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Lucky break, that one. Had decided from the start it was a Hawker, stumbled across the A.W.

Will have to look out some more exotics - in the meantime here's one to keep it rolling.
 
Nearly fell into the Ashton trap there, but of course it's the Tudor 8.

Well done on the Fouga, still referred to in my Janes of the period as a Castel-Mauboussin C.M. 100 ! :icon29: (bit early but have one anyway.)
 
Very, very good! :ernae: In fact you're better than my early 1950s book, which has mistakenly labelled VX195 'The Ashton', though it was, indeed, the Tudor 9 (such as WB490 on the right below) that was so-designated. VX195 was the only Tudor 8, with RR Nene Mk 5 turbojets.

Can anybody ever beat lefty at this game? :d
 
Who knows. Maybe either of us creative flying Finns could give him a tough nut to crack someday.
 
I was really hoping those cocky Finns would falter on this one !

Another beer heads for the prairies.....................
 
The triplane also had an "interesting story". Purpose built for one event.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:eek:ffice:eek:ffice" /><o:p></o:p>
 
This one was built for the Dole Race of 1927. It crashed taking off from San Francisco and never made it down to Los Angeles for the start.

Well done Lefty. :icon29: Have at it-
 
I can't find a complete picture, but relevant verbage leads me to believe this is a Salmson-Moineau S.M.2.

"One aircraft may have been fitted experimentally with a Salmson P9 engine. A single S.M.2 aircraft, with an additional Salmson 9A engine in the nose driving a conventional tractor airscrew, was tested with poor results, due to inadequate engine cooling, in 1918."
 
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