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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Twin tail boomer with inverted V-tail. No, not the Avispa in a distorting mirror
 

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This is the Aviacom AF-129 from Poland. Developed by students of the Warsaw University of Technology. Work started 2005-2006. Engine 100hp Rotax 914. The AF-129
was first flown in 2011. Registration SP-YWI

Open House, please
 
As the images of the aeroplane itself do not seem to ringing any bells, may I try one of the designer before, if this does not work, throwing in the towel and declaring open house?

 
Welcome back, Carlo. I hope that you've weathered the storm and that things are not too bad for you at present.

The little single seater is indeed a (the?) Sablier type 100 as manufactured by la Vicaina Aviacion at Fabrica de Garay y Sesumago (or Fabrica de Gomas Garay, according to another source), Viscaya, Bilbao.

Carlo having declared open house, whilst awaiting the next challenge can anyone tell me why Georges Sablier was dressed in thigh length boots, lederhosen kurze and leather gloves for that photograph?
 
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can anyone tell me why Georges Sablier was dressed in thigh length boots, lederhosen kurze and leather gloves for that photograph?

Some of these French chappies do have rather exotic personal proclivities. Had they been Wellington Boots, I would have suggested he was about to go out and check on his sheep.......:mixed-smiley-010:
 
....... puts me in mind of someone else ...
 

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I fear that M. Sablier might have searched in vain for sheep in the 16th arrondissement, which is where in Paris he lived. I doubt that the sheep could have afforded the rents in that quarter. I suspect that the only sheep that he was likely to have found there would have been butchered, cooked and on plates in the restaurants.

N.b. an error above, that I can't now revise - the company was la Vizcaina Aviacion. I omitted the z!
 
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