The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.
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Ambrosini SS.4?
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The same - only flew once, killing the pilot I believe ....
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Thank you, Jim.
I believe that the SS.4 was flown twice, both by the same pilot. Apparently he enjoyed the first flight so much that he wanted a second - which was that in the course of which it crashed, killing him.
Now here's something less than sleek. We haven't had a motorglider for some time. This is an early example.
I believe that the SS.4 was flown twice, both by the same pilot. Apparently he enjoyed the first flight so much that he wanted a second - which was that in the course of which it crashed, killing him.
Now here's something less than sleek. We haven't had a motorglider for some time. This is an early example.
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I can see from where you're coming, Uli. I doubt that there was a country in Europe that didn't produce a Zögling type glider in the twenties. I don't know if DFS produced a 'motorzögling' glider but, it it did, this is not it. This originated in a different European country and was the handiwork of someone who shared a name with a better known, and more prolific, constructor in a yet another European country!
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Spot on, Uli . Jose Maria Ansaldo designed and built it in Madrid and powered it with a 600 cc Douglas motor. Take it away.
. Jose Maria Ansaldo designed and built it in Madrid and powered it with a 600 cc Douglas motor. Take it away.
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It reminds me of a Monnett Sonnerai, but it has too many non-common aspects to be so, I fear!
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That, Mike, is the Simmering-Graz-Pauker (what a name!) SGP M.222 Flamingo V3 from 
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The Whitney Boomerang from Oz 
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It is the Whitney Boomerang. 
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