The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[Sopwith Chameleon]

OK - time to move on - it's the YAK UT-21 - Open House please

 

[AndyG43]

OK - time to move on - it's the YAK UT-21 - Open House please

One of the many variations of the UT-1.

Something a little more up to date?

 

[AndyG43]

No? It is possibly a little closer to Tibet than SC's last mystery.

 

[pomme homme]

I suspect that this means that it is Chinese, but what I know about modern Chinese helicopters could be inscribed on a pin head leaving room to spare!

 

[AndyG43]

The other side side of the mountain.

And all I know about modern Chinese helicopters is that they are largely Eurocopters wearing new clothes, apart from the supposedly new Harbin Z-20 which is very obviously a reverse engineered Black Hawk.

 

[cthornburg]

HAL LCH Prachanda

Chris

 

[AndyG43]

Indeed. Over to you Chris.

 

[cthornburg]

from a well know manufacture.

Chris

 

[lefty]

Boeing NB-3

 

[cthornburg]

That didn't take long
looking forward to next item

Chris

 

[lefty]

Thanks Chris - indebted to the Larkins book for pointing me in the direction of the Boeing...

This one, although you can't see it clearly, is a trimotor -

 

[Moses03]

The Spanish Loring T.3 if you ask me.

 

[lefty]

Didn't think you would let a trimotor get by you....... Over to Texas.

 

[Moses03]

Thanks Mike.

It takes a lot of engineers to build a large biplane!

 

[Moses03]

This bomber showed up in 1921. From a well-known stable.

 

[Moses03]

Powered by a modified Bugatti engine. It made it's last flight in 1922 and was considered unsuccessful.

 

[pomme homme]

If it's a bomber, rather than a passenger/freight aircraft, I presume it to be the sole Breguet XXI

 

[Moses03]

That is the one Mike.

 

[cthornburg]

In regards to the Breguet XX,XXI I think it's the XX airliner version with all the windows. The pix I have of the XXI shows different struts.

Chris

 

[normb]

Gosh, when I see all the bracing and struts on these giant biplanes I think of Nevil Shutes book about doing stress calculations on airships. All manual calculations! Lots and lots,,

normb