The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[Moses03]

Pretty confident so I will press on as I will be away until mid day tomorrow.


A compact floater up next. Please feel free to move on if you know it!

 

[giruXX]

The Mitchell U2 Superwing it is! A big glass to Kevin!

 

[lefty]

And Kevin's cute wee floater is the Loening Duckling, from 1918.

 

[lefty]

As Kevin indicated we should move on in his absence, and I am 10% sure about the Loening - here's one to keep us going - a rather droopy twin (not difficult !)

 

[pomme homme]

..... I am 10% sure about the Loening .....

A missing digit?

The photograph is the first prototype of the 1939 SNCAO CAO.600 torpedo bomber, I believe.

 

[lefty]

Yes, Mike, typos are the bane of my life and a sure sign of advancing senility. You are of course 100% correct on the SNCAO inverted gullwing. Over to you...

(by the way, reverting to the Loening Duckling, there was a 1929 amphibian by Loening also called Duckling - I can find nothing about it other than what is on Aerofiles. Anybody ?)

 

[Moses03]

No luck yet on the 1929 Duckling.

 

[cthornburg]

While were also looking for 1929 Duckling.

Anyone have a pix of Luscombe XT8E NX2788K first flight 1947. 3 built?

Chris

 

[pomme homme]

Thank you, Mike, and my apologies for the delay. I've been busy with the rams!

This was a one off and, if not for the depth of knowledge here, I might get away with this curveball!

 

[lefty]

Curveball indeed ! I'll plunge in - it looks like a modified Dassault 316T single-fin version, but with the SNECMA-Renault engines. However, the square windows are the real mystery....and the very short fuselage !

 

[giruXX]

Dassault MD.312B n[SUP]o[/SUP] 01 F-WCZN

 

[pomme homme]

Mike was close but Uli has it.

It is the Dassault MD.312B F-WCZN with a pair of 580 hp SNECMA 12S engines. Even that ugly great tail doesn't distract from the obvious Flamant fuselage shape!

The later MD.316T looked rather different, with two 800 hp Wright C7BA radial engines, eight round windows on each side of the fuselage and a revised nose undercarriage arrangement.

Over to Germany!

 

[giruXX]

Thank you Mike

Continue with something more minimalist

 

[giruXX]

To help you: Power comes from a Revmaster 2100-D and the design is based on a VERY famous aircraft

 

[Moses03]

My first thought was some kind of Bede offshoot.

 

[giruXX]

you are on a good track!

 

[srgalahad]

The only relevant thing I could find is the Mace M-102 "Scorchy" (N5588N) but haven't found a pic of it yet so I won't bet heavily on the outcome.

 

[giruXX]

Yes it is the Mace Scorchy http://all-aero.com/index.php/53-planes-l-m-n-o/16928-mace-m-102-scorchy

 

[srgalahad]

Thanks Uli. That pic was a rare find

Let's try this - it's a museum piece and a recreation but the original flew ("hopped") way back when...

 

[Moses03]

Must be the Gibson Twinplane 1910 replica.

Putnam's Canadian volume said it crashed into some oak trees after staggering about in a crosswind. William Gibson was unhurt but the machine was damaged beyond repair.