The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Yes it seemed familiar somehow - unlike this one - a newbie here, I believe -
 

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If I told you that this machine had two possible designations, an inspired guess may tell you its provenance...engine by Wout.
 
Yes , Robert, also known as the Centre Gaucho ! :very_drunk: Over to you..

Pierre Gaillard ? Pascal Brugier ? I am not familiar with these worthy gentlemen..
 
Mike, Pierre Gaillard is the author of the book "Les Avions Francais de 1944 à 1964" cited by the other Mike and several similar editions.

Must have missed it there.

Floater time.
 

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.... as well as the companion volume 'Les Avions Français de 1965 à 1990'. As far as I am aware, Pierre Gaillard did not produce a subsequent volume dealing with aircraft constructed in France from 1991 onward.

I don't believe anyone has had the time, commitment or courage to produce a similar volume(s) recording aircraft constructed in France in the years to 1943. Having regard to the enormity and complexity of the task, combined with the probability that much of the relevant documentary material is likely to have been lost in the Fall of France and the subsequent German Occupation, I suspect that it would be practically impossible now to produce anything definitive on the subject.

As to Pascal Brugier, he is the author of 'Registre France', a compilation of brief details of all aircraft registered in France since 1920. Rather like Ian Allan's CAM on steroids!
 
Give up. I even checked out the prices of Les Avions Caudron, by Hauet. Vol 1 £260, Vol 2 a staggering £860. Silly prices - and not for me !! Please reveal, Robert.
 
Ok, it is the Caudron C.51 F-AIBL which first flew 1921 and won the Monaco meeting the same year.
Mike, I would suggest that you make a new mystery since you came quite close to the correct answer.

BTW: Thanks to a guy from Argentina (!) my unknown biplane from post 22942 finally has been solved.

It is the Zhuchenko Resava from Yugoslavia registered as UN-PAY and later as YU-PAY.

Some more information about that plane can be found here:

https://www-paluba-info.translate.g...r_sl=bs&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=nui

I am wondering how the Resava managed to get onto a French (!) postcard...
 
Thanks Robert, but I have nothing lined up, so let's have an OH, please......

Postscript to the last one - couldn't find the C.51 in Aviafrance, checked elsewhere and found that it changed its designation to C.125 ! Vive la France......
 
Very familiar with that site, Mike, but you can't actually purchase from it. I use Amazon, Amazon France, Abebooks, for a guide to prices, which I think are driven up by Americans.
 
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