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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Here is a nice looking racer



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Moses, Have you hacked my PC, or are you an encyclopedia:ques:

Anyway have a :icon29:
Time for another :running: to the library
 
Thanks sandar. Certain planes come up from time to time and the I-16 is one of them. Lefty is the encyclopedia, I'm just the guy who sweeps up at night.

Now for something completely different...
 
Nothing on this one yet - I started off assuming it naturally was American, but I wonder ?
 
Oh dear, I'm having to log in every time now..............

Think I'll surrender here - not too good on the modern stuff - think it might be Russian ?

Anyone else ?
 
Sorry guys, had a migraine today and have only just had a look. :isadizzy::barf:
:blind:

My first thoughts were German and Dornier immediately sprang to mind, so did Grob.
I can't see any evidence of wheels, so that means a true flying boat, not an amphibian.
 
I feel your pain sandar. Have suffered from migraines on and off since I was about 11yrs old. Miserable times.

This one is a bit obscure so I think I will move it along. It's a Poschel P-420. :germany: Was a testbed for the Equator P-300.


Onward with this dandy biplane-
 
I don't think I would have ever got the Poschel. After you revealed the answer, I 'Googled' 'Poschel' and only got three relevant results, two of which resulted in the same page (password protected) and one that didn't load properly!

Fortunately I don't get too many migraines, normally one, possibly two a year and, according to my doctor, they are mild ones (could have fooled me).
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Now for a look at the mystery biplane.

Grumman(ish)/ Curtiss(ish) undercarriage, bubble canopy (Canadian?), possibly a Canadian car and Foundry FDB-1
 
Blast! Beat me to it - although I could actually claim it as I think it is FBD-1 !
Well done Sandar.
 
I have just browsed through a few pages of books and the internet and have found that it is variously described as FDB-1 and FBD-1. Dunno which is correct. Dyslexia or incompetence rules KO
 
It gets worse - Molson and Taylor's 'Canadian Aircraft' lists it as both FBD- and FDB-1 on the same page !

Anyway, fire off your next mystery - good to see you in the ranks of this forum.
 
...I have a horror of being wrong & blundering ahead, but fairly confident about that one.

Have to go to work now, so here's mine - maybe very easy, though it's only just crossed my aviation radar as I'm into postwar airliners at the moment.

:USA-flag: Congratulations to you US voters & President Elect Obama (I've heard he's very keen on Sim-Outhouse HWS & looks in here all the time, when not busy with other stuff!) I thought President Bush's message to him & your country was very dignified.
 
Handley Page (Reading) HPR-1 Marathon

I too, have an interest in post war civil aircraft
 
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