The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

I thought that it might have been done for a film but you may be right, Robert, that it was done just to entertain the crowds at Oshkosh!

I'm sure that others can answer the 'what' and so I'll provide that opportunity by refraining from answering unless and until they don't
 
Mm-kay, didn't think that this would be so difficult.

Engine of the production aircraft was from Potez.

Going to bed now, so anything more will be later on.
 
Having done likewise, Robert, and awoken to find no change, I must deduce that the 'usual suspects' have departed early on their Christmas holidays! I presume that it is a Nord 3202.
 
Thank you, Robert. Are we two the only active members at present?

Staying on the 'easy side' - in the hope that it might serve to galvanise members - I've dug into the photographs which I took, decades ago, and come up with this .....

 
Hmm. Looks like a Camel, but the cowling shape is all wrong, more like a Pup, and the guns look very phoney. Odd prop too.
Is this some sort of replica carve-up, Mike ???
 
It is a replica of a Camel but, when I described it as being on the 'easy side', I didn't mean quite that easy! It is by a well known manufacturer, who applied his own designation to it, and it's that for which I'm looking. It's now in a well known museum. It was at White Waltham when I photographed it in 1979.
 
At na3t.org there is an old picture of a Camel replica C1701 registered as G-AWYY which could be the plane on the photo.
A google search gave as result, that the G-AWYY was built by Slingsby as Slingsby Sopwith F.1 Camel Replica.

Am I on the right track, Mike?
 
Yes I found that too. It's a pretty poor effort.
Bit like a Madam Tussaud's doing Audrey Hepburn and putting Jimmy Durante's nose on her.......:playful:
 
Robert has it :)icon29:). It is G-AWYY, the Slingsby T.57 Sopwith Camel F.1 replica. Originally produced for film work (does anyone know which film?), then registered in the USA as N1917H and now in the FAAM at Yeovilton.

Oh, Mike. I'm just waiting for you to post 'bah, humbug'!
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It is, Mike! :encouragement:

The sole Hirtenberg which found its way to the UK and survived the war.

It seems we are playing ping pong at the moment, I hope some participants will awake from their winter sleep. :very_drunk:

Santé :icon29:
 
That's the CASA- built Jungmeister 1-133C EC-AMO at Blackpool. The engine is a mystery - I know the prototype had a Hirth motor, but this almost looks like Argus ?
 
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