The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[pomme homme]

Thank you, Kevin.

Because, many years ago, I'd used that aeroplane on another forum, I recognised it immediately - but couldn't remember its identity! Thus I had to resort to a rather protracted trawl through the 1930s avions de tourisme on the aviafrance website to provide a jog to my ailing memory.

Perhaps we can remain in broadly the same period of time whilst moving from low wing to high wing monoplane?

 

[lefty]

Gourdou Leseurre ET1 ? But those struts look enormous....

 

[fabulousfour]

Maybe the ambulance plane Gourdou-Leseurre GL.23 TS without (or with retouched) markings?

 

[pomme homme]

I'll let you gentlemen knock the finer points out of it. I have it as the 1923 Gourdou-Leseurre GL-22 fighter trainer F-AIDS (that wouldn't be a PC registration mark nowadays).

 

[fabulousfour]

Mike (from Scotland) please go on with the next mystery, you were the first talking about Gourdou-Leseurre.

 

[lefty]

The more you look into Gourdou Leseurre, the more complex it gets - umpteen variants and sub-variants of the basic parasol - mention of one (the GL-21 C1 Chassis #6) with reinforced struts, which sounds like this one.
Anyway, I have nothing on the drawing board, so Robert please continue !

 

[fabulousfour]

Thanks for your offer, Mike, here we go with a vintage floater.

BTW: According to the French Civil Aircraft Register the F-AIDS was a ... Gourdou-Leseurre GL.23TS.

 

[pomme homme]

.... and just to prove Mike's point about French aircraft designations, the caption to the photograph I used (the work of a well known French aviation history author) is: 'Gordou-Lesseure GL-22 F-AIDS, à Soissons en 1935'!

 

[lefty]

I think, Robert, that this is an R.E.P. monoplane.

One such (number 11) was flown by Henri Mollat in the Competition for River and Colonial Seaplanes (!) in Temse (Tamise), 7-16 September 1912.

 

[fabulousfour]

And the beer goes to Mike.

It is the REP (hydro-) monoplane from 1912.

Please show us your next mystery

 

[lefty]

No water involved here - it's a bit more recent, too -a tidy wee twin -

 

[pomme homme]

Pilatus PC-8 Twin Porter?

 

[lefty]

That's the one, Mike -

 

[pomme homme]

Thank you, Mike.

Flivver, flivver, please forgive her .....

 

[giruXX]

Carmier Dupouy T.10

 

[pomme homme]

That's the girl!

Over to you, Uli.

 

[giruXX]

on with some kind of zebra

 

[Sopwith Chameleon]

I think this the MS 345 from La Belle France ?

 

[giruXX]

you think quite right, SC I have it as 342/2 (with enclosed cockpits)

 

[Sopwith Chameleon]

Thanks ! .... Here's a sleek number ....