The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

You are very warm, Jorge. You have the manufacturer but not the type. This one was built as a single seater rather than as a two seater. Only one was built and that crashed in Romania. When it was built, the factory then was in Imperial Russia. The city in which that factory was would not now consider itself to be in Russia - and, no doubt, would have no wish to become so again!
 
Hmm ...

Sikorsky worked for a company in Russia that had three factories: Riga (current Latvia), St. Petersburg (still in Russia, but known as Leningrad during USSR times), and Moscow. Since Riga is the only one that is not in Russia, my guess was that it was an aircraft built by the Russo-Balt Co. (Sikorsky was the lead designer from what I've found out so far) at their Riga plant, which eventually made it all the way south to Romania.

Since I still couldn't find anything about the actual model, though, I did more digging. The tail and wings look like a version of the Anatra airplane in the link I posted, but Anatra was a Ukranian company within the Empire. It was based in Odessa. Russo-Balt -- where Sikorsky worked -- was Russian.

So ...

I took a longshot and checked for "Anatra" and came up with this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatra_Anadis

Picture's on the bottom right-hand side.

Looks like this thing would've been a good fighter had it been produced!

Jorge
Miami, FL
 
This time you've hit the nail on the head, Jorge. It is the Anatra Anadis fighter. With this one done, I look forward to seeing your challenge 'mystery' aircraft! So over to Miami - where, curiously, the temperature today appears to be lower than in Western France!
 
This one may not be an easy one, but we'll see. I'm currently working on aircraft.cfg-based dynamics for the FS9 one available here at SOH.

aero_quiz_01 by Jorge Rechani, on Flickr

This unique find is from the 1930's and somewhat obscure compared to its more prevalent, older cousin. It would've been another, "Pirate of the Caribbean," if it had gone into production, but alas, there was only one manufactured -- yet two were built.

It's name would continue, however. Its "son" (in name) would be a type of "eliminator" who would "whistle death" upon its enemies. Its "grandson" would carry the name until retired in the 1990's, though use of the "grandson" in other countries continued until 2014..

I censored out the national insignia (albeit misspelled), but other than that it's a stock picture.

Jorge
Miami, FL
 
My appologies.

Chris,

I'm late in getting back to this, but yes, you were correct. It was the XO4U "Corsair" scout bomber prototype.

Sorry for the late reply, but didn't get a chance to get back on-line here until today.

I'm working on updated textures for your wonderful rendition and should have them out soon!

Regards,

Jorge
Miami, FL
 
I'd hoped that someone else might step up to the mark. But as it seems not, I must say that I believe that this is a CFA Salmson D.7 Cri-cri Major - and not a D.57 Phryganet, because the rear glazing of the cockpit is wrong for that. More specifically, I think that it is F-BFND,

It's always been a source of amazement to me that the Compagnie française d'aviation (which had been, more simply, the Societé des moteurs Salmson before the war) could have taken a design that was seemingly antiquated in the thirties, and recommenced production of it on the cusp of the fifties, and expected to sell the aeroplanes into a far more sophisticated post-war market. Maybe that's why there were only ten Cri-cri Majors produced - and only two Phryganets. I won't go into the other variants as it may do no good for Lefty's state of health!
 
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