The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Thank you, Robert.

Here's something broadly contemporaneous with the Baby. But whilst the Baby might have been described as pretty, even by trying hard, one couldn't have been more complimentary about this one than by describing it as utilitarian.

 
Ahh, I've dined well, it being Burn's Night, on haggis, along with bashed neeps and tatties, washed down with a glass of Islay's finest. But enough of such trivialities. The lack of response, to the latest mystery, seems to necessitate a clue. Well, how about the suggestion that this aeroplane was powered by only half an horse power!
 
Well congratulations on your choice of supper, Mike (where do you get a haggis in your part of Gaul?? Do you have an old recipe ?) We had an identical meal, but with a cask-strength Aberlour rather than an Islay malt. Just can't handle the phenol kick of those...
Your mystery machine is the Central Centaur IV. Your reference to half a horsepower had me puzzled for a moment, then the drachma dropped....:wink:
 
That's the kite, Mike, the Central Centaur - although your intervention deprived me of the opportunity to play my next clue, namely to suggest that it was a half attempt at man powered flight!

As to the haggis, it's home made - one of the advantages of having one's own herd of sheep. When did you last see ovine lungs on the butcher's slab? My wife makes it to her own recipe, which she has fine tuned over years of production. However she tells me that if I were to dislose it here, I'd have to shoot all this thread's users!
 
Thanks Mike. We found a new haggis supplier - it is the only time you will find my better half eating offal of any kind - no liver, sweetbreads, tripe, etc for her!

I know some of our American friends are sensitive on such matters, so we'll move on - here's a (non-floating) floater - and a parasol to boot -
 

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That's the one, Uli ! :icon29:

If we are going to have to avoid photos that are well known to you, sir, we might as well give up now !
 
On with something far less modern. I'd like to know the small biplane in the foreground.
 

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