The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.
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fabulousfour
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That looks like the student project from the Northrop Aeronautical Institute.
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pomme homme
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Is that the SIPA S.200 Minijet?
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Assuming that Keith and I are correct, Robert, please award the next challenge to Keith as I have nothing which is waiting and ready to go!
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It is the SIPA Minijet, Mike.
I was hoping that with this point of view where the jet exhaust isn't visible the SIPA might look like a prop aircraft.
Santé
to both of you 
Since Mike doesn't have a new mystery, do you have a new challenge for us, Keith?
I was hoping that with this point of view where the jet exhaust isn't visible the SIPA might look like a prop aircraft.
Santé
Since Mike doesn't have a new mystery, do you have a new challenge for us, Keith?
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Mike, the Firefly has Dutch insignia (which I cut off) and according to the article the photo was taken in Gilze-Rijen.
You can find the article (in Dutch) in the following link with some additional photos of the Minijet.
https://issuu.com/knvvl/docs/luchtvaartkennis_web_2013-04/1?ff&experiment=new-links
My Dutch isn't very good but as I understand the article the RNLAF had some interest in that plane.
You can find the article (in Dutch) in the following link with some additional photos of the Minijet.
https://issuu.com/knvvl/docs/luchtvaartkennis_web_2013-04/1?ff&experiment=new-links
My Dutch isn't very good but as I understand the article the RNLAF had some interest in that plane.
I will try this one - & also admit have not done a search!
I remember seeing a SIPA Minijet displayed at Coventry in the 50's whilst walking with other racing pilots, one being Nat Somers who was funding Kendall to make the SK1, who said he was throwing money down the drain when he could buy one of those.....
Keith
I remember seeing a SIPA Minijet displayed at Coventry in the 50's whilst walking with other racing pilots, one being Nat Somers who was funding Kendall to make the SK1, who said he was throwing money down the drain when he could buy one of those.....
Keith
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I think that the SK.1 may be in France - possibly with Classique Aéro Service at Orbigny - undergoing a long term rebuild.
Otherwise known as a Curtiss Seamew although that photograph is labelled Seagull! I've never seen that aircraft before having just tripped over it searching for something else.
Over to you sir,
Keith
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Vis à vis the SK.1, see https://minijets.org/fr/150-300/turbomeca-palas/somers-kendall-sk-1.
