The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Thank you, Mike.

I hope that the Irish do well this afternoon and that, a fortnight hence, the Scots don't spoil what should otherwise be 'le grand showdown' in Paris on the evening of 14 March!

What makes the Espadon memorable for me is that its wings seem to have been an afterthought, added when its designer remembered that there wasn't otherwise anything into which the main wheels could retract!

Here's an attractive two seat parasol wing monoplane that doesn't appear to have been used here before. However I doubt that it will last long.

 
Interestingly, Robert, I had intended to ask broadly the same question - namely what are the aircraft in the background of the photograph - although I hadn't arrived at the possiblity of them being Ju 88s. But that must be a likely as a number of the type were constructed in the same country and more were recuperated in the same region as that in which the aeroplane in the foreground of the photograph first flew and the type went on to serve in that country's air force and navy after the war in Europe ended. But returning to the aeroplane in the foreground, it was powered by a Potez 3B radial - which should identify its country of origin (if that wasn't already obvious) - and first flew just three months after the war in Europe ended.
 
I reckon they are 88's in French markings, Robert. But that hasn't helped a lot !
 

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Hi pomme homme:encouragement:
A Sauterelles?. I understand one was re-built/restored after WW2 by Jacques Delattre as JD-60
 
I looked at the Potez 60 also, Walter. But if he did restore it, he completely altered the fuselage, wing, struts, tail unit and gear ! But with the French, everything is possible......:banghead:
 
Uli has it. It is the 1945 Michel 01 F-WCDP (which never migrated from that experimental registration to a CDN or CNRA registration).

I think that the Sauterelle that you have in mind, Walter, is F-PVQB which flies with Espace Air Passion at Angers Marcé.

Next stop, Germany!
 
Thank you, Uli. Here's something of an earlier vintage. It might be described as a 'before' photograph. Its brethren have hitherto manifest themselves in this place but not, I think, this model.

 
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