The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

There's not a lot to be found about this little co-axial Russian helicopter. What there is says that it is the Getmantcev or Germanceva helicopter, work on which was started in 1969 with first flight in 1971. It appears to have emerged from obscurity and returned to that!
 
You are spot on. I found it some time back while trawling through the Secret Projects forum, it piqued my interest sufficiently toyed with the idea of reproducing it in plastic.
 
Thank you, Andy. Without that clue I wouldn't have had a chance of identifying it.

The mystery depicted below might be more appropriately located closer to Russia whereas it is, as you can see, in the heart of ye olde worlde rural England!

 
Well done, Chris. It's an I-12, more precisely YL-ABS, parked outside the Old House at Home public house in Burton, near Chippenham, probably immediately post-WW2. And as you might surmise, there's a story attached to that!
 
Didn't show up in search. When I just looked for it on google showed up quite different but I believe same aircraft just modified.

Chris

as and aside asking for help. Many years ago I ran across a pix of a "Twin Bonanza" which I thought would be a good subject for here. Since I'm into military aircraft didn't save the pix. It's a single Bonanza with two engines one on top of the other. The pix showed the engines installed but not cowled. Would like to see a finished pix of the plane if completed. It's the Beech model 40. That's all I know. Thanks
 

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..... as is the second cockpit. I know that it is claimed that two Streaks were produced, the second of which 'had provision for a second cockpit' (q.v. https://www.nickcomper.co.uk/the-kite), but I've haven't seen any corroboration for that claim or a photograph of a two seat Streak and I know of only one Streak with a British civil registration mark, namely G-ACNC. The Kite, which was registered G-ACME, emerged from the Comper works a little more than a month after the first flight of the Streak. It had a fuselage slightly longer than the Streak. But for the Streak having a Gipsy Major and the Kite having a Pobjoy Niagara, the two aeroplanes visually were very similar. But they were two different aeroplanes. However, all of this is just for the record and I have no wish to be an impediment to SC posting the next mystery.

All the best

pomme homme
 
Thank you, Chris, lefty and SC.

Here are the mortal remains of something that was quite advanced in its day.



P.s. what was the source of your photograph of the Kite, Chris?
 
Well done, you Ancient Mariner. You saved me trotting out my Peter Green/Fleetwood Mac clue! This bird was brought low (well, that's being rather dramatic - it force landed) at Pucklechurch on 6 October 1940 and its mortal remains are depicted outside the Old House at Home public house in Burton, Wiltshire, having been recuperated by the indomitable Jim Packer.
 
pomme homme

When I'm wandering around the web and find something I think might be used here. I just download it. So where I found this I don't know. I try to get a collection of mystery pics that I can use. Most times it's been used before. Just like the pix of the Beech Model 40 I should have saved it but didn't. I try to find something of interest that will spark saving the history of it.

Thanks

Chris
 
pomme homme said:
Well done, you Ancient Mariner. You saved me trotting out my Peter Green/Fleetwood Mac clue! This bird was brought low (well, that's being rather dramatic - it force landed) at Pucklechurch on 6 October 1940 and its mortal remains are depicted outside the Old House at Home public house in Burton, Wiltshire, having been recuperated by the indomitable Jim Packer.
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So, if the truth is to be told, 'tis the remains of DH Albatross:
Fingal
Passenger variant was registered G-AFDL and delivered to Imperial Airways (later BOAC) as Fingal in 1939. Destroyed in a crash landing near Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire, England on 6 October 1940.

The quote, as others may have discerned, is from the Samuel Taylor Coleridge epic "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere" (1798), which, in my warped youth I once recited in my English Lit. class - all 650+ lines of it.
As the myth goes, to shoot an Albatross will bring untold hardship and a lasting curse or death. "Frobisher", Albatross G-ADFI was destroyed on the ground during a German air attack on Whitchurch Airport on 20 December 1940. 'Nuff said...

I'm in the midst of reconstructing a wall in the basement originally made by someone with NO (zero, zilch) skills or knowledge. If I do not post a mystery within 12 hours, consider it open house.
 
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