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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

It is, but not one of the 'run of the mill' version, from the forties, but the unsuccessful attempt, fifteen years on from the debut of the original, to relaunch the aeroplane as the SUC 11G Super Courlis, powered by a 240hp Continental engine. The fact that only one Super Courlis was built tells you all that you need to know about the success, or lack thereof, of this aeroplane. Over to you, Kevin.
 
Ah well, 'tis a better day for posting than most this month (With a METAR like this I'm staying inside - METAR CYYC 161500Z 34026G33KT 5/8SM -the vis is reduced in SMOKE thanks to the 30 Kt wind blowing all the wildfire smoke down from the northern half of the province)
so let me offer this...
 

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Oh wait! I know that one! Saw it in the catalogue the other day.
Apparently it only takes minutes to assemble with the included little L-shaped Allen wrench!:bump:
 
IKEA wasn't even a twinkle in Ingvar Kamprad's eye when the designer of this triplane commissioned Gabriel Voisin to build it! But as you mention large stores, curiously he, the designer, had a connection with a famous London department store.
 
Well I've no idea who the designer is, but I'd lay good money down on the department store being Selfridges, sounds like the sort of circles Gordon Selfridge frequented.

I know there is a Voisins department store in St Helier, Jersey (from childhood holidays), still family owned apparently; but I have no idea whether there is a familial link to Claude, I'm having enough fun tracing my own family tree (which has thrown up some very big surprises!!) to dig into it.
 
A Goupy? Not as far as I am aware, Kevin. This triplane - or some say one of two triplanes - started life in France before finishing it in England. However its journey between the two countries was made by land and sea, rather than by air - which says much about its flying capability. This, apparently, amounted to no more than a series of 'hops'. There is no record of it achieving sustained flight. It carried the name of its designer, which should be easily ascertainable by pursuing a line of inquiry from the answer to the clue given by AndyG43 in the first line of his last post here. He - the designer, not AndyG43! - produced one new design post-WW1 and then disappeared into obscurity.
 
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