The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Jim wins by a neck - but it seems that Chris is already off and running in the next race!

Curiously, Farnborough's 1917 Aerial Target did have a person in it:

One example was later converted to a manned aeroplane by No 3 (Western) Aircraft Depot at Bristol, and was fitted with a wheeled undercarriage and ailerons. As a rebuilt aircraft it was allotted a serial number from a batch allocated for that purpose. It received the number B8962, with numerals similar to those of its original, uncertain identity, and this has caused much ill-founded conjecture among latter-day historians. By 1934 it had been disposed of, and was owned by Mr Ron Shelley of Billericay, but it was broken up without appearing on the civil register.
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The Royal Aircraft Factory (P.Hare, Putnam 1990)
 
I had a hard time finding anything about it. It is Bell I have a H73 on the id for the pix I don't know if that's associated with it or not.

Over to you.

Chris
 
It's not listed in the Bell/Putnam book either. NASA had a hand in it so maybe there is another designation there?


On with a nifty twin tail tourer.

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Looks French.
At secretprojects I found a drawing of an aircraft which shows some similarities but also differences.

Could this be the Lauwick/Mourlot FM.60?
 
France is a good place to start but it's not the FM.60 Robert. This one had retractable gear. From 1946.
 
Max Holste MH.52G at the 1946 Paris Salon.

Edit: On reflection, I'm not now so sure. I think that I've found the photograph, taken at the 1946 Salon, which was cropped to produce the image at post #23804, which shows this aeroplane on the same stand as the SNCASO SO.90 Corse and the MH.52 on another, adjacent stand. But assuming its not the MH.52, but a SNCASO product, I've not yet found anything from that company, from around that period, which matches what I can see in the image posted.
 
Didn't realize there were so many twin tailed, single engine touring French monoplanes from this era.

Mike has it with the SIPA S.20.:guinness:
 

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Thank you, Kevin. I apologise for pursuing such a convoluted route to get to the S.20.

Here's something which, according to my search, has not appeared here before. It might be considered somewhat deceptive.

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Thanks, Mike.

Here is a vintage aircraft surprisingly on a colored photo.
 

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The photo is not as old as the aircraft that's one reason why it is coloured. The hangars in the background are Old Warden & the aircraft is a 1910 Deperdussin.
If correct Open House as have nowt in reserve - sorry.
Keith
 
Good enough for me, it is the Blackburn Type D from 1912.
Hard to believe that the original is still existent and even flying on some occasions.

Over to you. :icon29:
 
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