The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[fabulousfour]

Let's go on with a nice floater.

 

[Sopwith Chameleon]

The not very successful Koolhoven FK-34 .....

 

[fabulousfour]

It is the Koolhoven.

Enjoy your pint.

 

[Sopwith Chameleon]

Thanks ! Now for a powerful beast .....

 

[cthornburg]

It's no mystery when you left title of the pix with the name of the aircraft

Chris

 

[Sopwith Chameleon]

Doh ! Let's move on - it's the Anbo Viiii from Lithuania - OH please ....

 

[pomme homme]

I'll break the impasse with a minimalist helicopter.

 

[fabulousfour]

Could this be the Adams-Wilson Hobbycopter, Mike?

 

[pomme homme]

It certainly could be - because it is, Robert. This example is powered by a 650cc BSA motorcycle engine and is for sale in the Paris region (I had to crop the image to remove the leboncoin caption!). Across the border to Germany we go.

 

[fabulousfour]

Thanks, Mike, must be really breezy (and fun!).

I think it has been a while since we had a racer.

 

[pomme homme]

I know that it isn't, but it looks like the illegitimate offspring of an illicit relationship between a Percival Mew Gull and a Morane-Saulnier M.S.406!

 

[Moses03]

Looks to be the Rider R-4 of 1936.

 

[fabulousfour]

It is the Rider R-4!

Have you been on vacation, Kevin? You first mystery for ages

Enjoy your cold beer

 

[Moses03]

Thanks Robert. Not on holiday, although I could use one. Maybe a month long visit to a beach in Tahiti would be just about right.



Here is a real curious one.

 

[giruXX]

is that fuselage from a DH.60 Moth?

 

[Moses03]

Yes it is.

This new build was flown in late 1931.

 

[Moses03]

This one-off was designed and flown away from the UK...very far away. In the Southern Hemisphere no less.

Unfortunately it ended the life of the inventor with a fatal dive in November 1931.

 

[Moses03]

This photo is from Meggs Australian aircraft volume one. It is the Galway aeroplane of 1931.

Continuing on with a much easier mystery.

 

[Sopwith Chameleon]

Fairchild F-24 Argus ....

 

[Moses03]

Right on Jim. Over to you.