The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[Sopwith Chameleon]

It's not what it seems ..........

 

[cthornburg]

From memory I thinks it's a modified Tiger Moth for a movie.

Chris

 

[giruXX]

you have it!

The caption says: The Tiger Moth T7438, c/n 83817, converted by Film Aviation Services Ltd. at Croydon in 1961 to represent a Fokker D.VII for the film "Lawrence of Arabia”.

 

[cthornburg]

a 30ish something maybe 20s

Chris

 

[fabulousfour]

I think this is the Orta St. Hubert G.1

 

[cthornburg]

That didn't last long over to you.

Chris

 

[fabulousfour]

I had the Orta a while ago in another aircraft mystery, so it immediately rang a bell.

Here is a more modern trainer.

 

[fabulousfour]

This is one of two built prototypes, the type was built in series.

 

[pomme homme]

Is it the Turkish MKEK-4 Ugur (which originated from the THK-15)?

Afterthought: maybe I should have put that the other way around, namely the THK-15 which, when in production, was known as the MKEK-4 Ugur.

 

[fabulousfour]

Mike, the mystery was built far away from Turkey

Only the prototypes had this engine, the later built aircraft had a very different one.

 

[pomme homme]

Oh well, c'est la vie. It'll probably transpire to be one of those oddities from Indonesia!

 

[lefty]

No, Mike, I think it's the Wackett prototype with Gypsy Major motor....

 

[fabulousfour]

Mike from Scotland has it.

It is the Wackett prototype with a Gipsy engine which made the plane look substantially different.

Slàinte

 

[lefty]

Thank you Robert

back to the water -

 

[cthornburg]

Thomas Morse S-5 or S-4B

Chris

 

[lefty]

'Tis the S-5, Chris. Over to you -

 

[cthornburg]

An old biplane

Chris

 

[cthornburg]

in a famous russian family

Chris

 

[lefty]

Polikarpov Po-2 U-2L (or U-2SPL ?)

 

[cthornburg]

That's it more than I had it just a a version of U-2

Chris