The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

I'm impressed, Mike! :encouragement:
Of course it is the SPCA.
Didn't even know that there was a difference between the two aircraft except for the engines. That must be a great book!

Over to Scotland. :icon29:
 
fabulousfour said:
I'm impressed, Mike! :encouragement: That must be a great book!
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I suspect that it is, Robert, but I can't say for certain as I didn't read it before sending it on to Mike! However, having regard to how poorly it was packaged for shipping, I don't think that its publisher paid it the respect that its content quality would seem to deserve.
 
Well apart from one slightly crumpled corner, it is just fine, and the contents make it all worthwhile.

Got a busy day ahead, so will recycle an entry from long ago. I rather like this machine, although it does look a bit like the result of an illicit liaison between a Beaufighter and a DC-2.....
 

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And this is the Piaggio P.111 from Thompson's Italian aircraft book that Lefty kindly mailed to me years ago and is still a favorite in my library.
 
Indeed it is the one-off Piaggio, Kevin. Glad you're still finding that book useful !

Over to Texas - :icon29:- is it warming up over there yet ?
 
Thanks Mike. Yes, the heat is headed this way like a light in a narrow train tunnel.

Here is a scrubby bipe.

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This was a much altered Curtiss with a common OX-5 engine. The well-known pilot at the time was attempting to fly from Mexico to Russia!

Las Vegas was one of the stops...
 
Flight was in 1921. Made it as far as Alaska before heavy winds destroyed the airplane while it was on the ground.
 
For some reason, something yelled 'Czech' at me ! Went to my rather tatty copy of the Letadla bible (don't think bookbinding was a Czech speciality) and found the Aero A-11J with Walter Jupiter motor.
 
Might that be the Airspeed Oxford IV with the experimental Gipsy Queen IV inline engines? It's a guess because I can't find a picture of the aeroplane online and I don't have H.A.Taylor's book.
 
I think the engines would be Queen II's if Military or Gipsy Six Series 2 if civil & have CSU's & Constant speed props. Gipsy Six series I in Rapides & Miles a/c.
Anyway how is France these day Mike? Now moving to Cheltenham having found a bungalow!
Keep up the good work, I'm still surprised how many unknown aircraft have been built!
Keith
 
Yes Mike - not proceeded with because they had so many Cheetah engines lying around, apparently.
Over to you :very_drunk:
 
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