The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[Moses03]

I think you are correct Chris. That 2nd pic I posted does look like the airliner version but I was looking for the XXI designation.

 

[pomme homme]

Err, so is it me or Chris who must run with the baton?

 

[cthornburg]

You can have the baton. With the description of bomber I went looking couldn't find anything. The pix I had I failed to notice any similarity. So you did the hard work.

Chris

 

[pomme homme]

Thank you, Kevin and Chris. Here's a monoplane from a country not readily associated with aircraft construction.

 

[cthornburg]

From Ethiopia

Meindl A VII

Chris

 

[pomme homme]

I suspect that you are correct, Chris, although my source didn't identify it as a Meindl A VII. That source (Air-Britain) describes it as the Ethiopia I Tsahai, the first aircraft to be built in Ethiopia. It says that it was built and first flown by Ing. L. Weber at Jan Meda Airfield, Addis Ababa, in 1935, before being captured by the Italian forces invading Abyssinia in 1936 and being extant today, as an exhibit at the Vigna di Valle aeronautical museum in Rome. But if one looks at photographs of the Meindl A VII, the Ethiopian aircraft matches those. So over to you.

 

[cthornburg]

I hadn't heard any other description of it. I've seen it over the years only ID this way.

I think I found a stumper. All I know is the pix. Looks like it capable of flight. Anyone getting the country wins the prize.

Chris

 

[AndyG43]

I think the stump may have belonged to the guy hit by a detached rotor blade during ground running tests. The country is Nigeria, and I think the name of the guy who designed it was Brilliant Young Boy; at least that it what he gets called in every article I read about this. It got the label "Nigerian Army Helicopter Project 01" but it never came to anything; I came across it when I was doing some research into HAL helicopters as Nigeria are apparently buying the Prachand.

Brilliant Young Boy Designed And Built Helicopter For Nigerian Army. - Politics - Nigeria (nairaland.com)

All you need to know about the made in Nigeria Army Helicopter – Military Africa

Does that mean I won the prize?

 

[cthornburg]

You not only got the prize but a trophy.

Chris

This was a better attempt than other I've seen made in Africa so called aircraft/heli.

 

[AndyG43]

You not only got the prize but a trophy.

Chris

This was a better attempt than other I've seen made in Africa so called aircraft/heli.

One would hope that Brilliant Young Boy got funding to pursue his education & career properly, he could be a real asset for Nigeria.

Anyhoo. This one, I suspect, is not a stumper.

 

[Sopwith Chameleon]

....... OK - its the Baynes Bat Glider prototype ......

 

[AndyG43]

And over to you .....

 

[Sopwith Chameleon]

.......Thanks ! onwards with a another experimental ......

 

[pomme homme]

You'd have to be starck raving mad not to identify that Nenadovitch wing arrangement - as Baragouin did on 21 January 2013 and 13 June 2015! It's the Starck AS 20.

 

[Sopwith Chameleon]

....... apologies, and well spotted - you still get the suds : over to you

 

[pomme homme]

With apologies for the delay, curiously here's a non-military single seater from a major manufacturer.

 

[lefty]

Well Mike, according to various sources, I think this is F-BBGC, which is a Morane-Saulnier 560, 563, or possibly 570 ! (Think I'll plump for the middle one...)

 

[pomme homme]

Spot on, Mike, on both counts. It is F-BBGC and a MS.563, the second and last aircraft in the MS.560 series.

As I can't find a wine glass icon, I'll offer you a virtual glass of chilled Quarts de Chaume, perhaps a Chateau Bellerive 1988, to toast your success.

 

[lefty]

Well I thought I had posted a reply early this morning but it has disappeared !

Try again - a floater that has suffered from a vent malencontreux - haven't we all on occasion ??

 

[pomme homme]

..... yes, but generally without such disastrous consequences!