The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Going by the back end of the car, it's early to mid 70's USA. (1974 Chevy Nova perhaps).

That is all I have.:biggrin-new:
 
This is the Puddle Jumper (N37BP) by Bryce and Joe Petersen of W.Virginia, ca.1980/1981. Engine was a 55hp HAPI/VW1600, mostly composite construction.
Reported as a scaled-up version of a 1/4 scale model with which the designers set several FAI records in 1978.

OH suggested, all agree?, go-ahead then:jump:

and for the coming new year, I like to wish you double of what you wish for me.
 
A Happy New Year to all of you.

Here is a mystery which shouldn't bother you for too long, but you can earn an extra beer if you tell me the location where the picture was taken.
 

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Happy New year Robert and all!

I'm seeing an Isthmian Airways Hamilton H-47 anchored near Taboga Island (Panama) about 1930.
 
Thanks Robert.

Will follow suit, the chopper is not so difficult but the location is interesting. Can you name both?

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It is the Hiller Mike, but the photo hails from the land down under. 

How about a guess at the most highest latitude spot on the continent? (Think peninsula).


Edit: Mike, the board is yours of course. An extra pint for anyone who can guess the geography bit.
 
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My apologies. Only now have I read the edit to your prepenultimate post, Kevin. Hitherto I'd assumed that the baton had passed to lefty, as he'd answered the hard part of the challenge. I think that equity dictates that this is how it should be. So Scotland, we await you!
 
It was only a supplementary, which merely required a bit of Googling, so the baton rests fairly and squarely in France. I have nothing for the moment anyway.
 
Well, I don't think that identifying a Hiller UH-12 deserves much credit but .....

Here's something that flew but in a singularly unimpressive manner. And it was plug-ugly (in the non Baltimore sense of the word) too!

 
If my understanding is correct, 1953 saw her only flights (and to use that word is to stretch a point). The picture shows her as a scrap heap queen in the following year. Bonus p[o]ints for identifying the source of the engines in the foreground!
 
OK, extra p(o)ints are tempting: Hants & Sussex HS.1 Herald with some Airspeed Oxford engines in the foreground, if my source is right.
 
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