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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

It does look like some kind of ersatz Sikorsky but it isn't. This one is from deep within the Moze archives. :d
 
The only other one I can find with a similar configuration is the Yugoslav Mitrovich MMS 3, but this is obviously earlier. Another design by the same chap, perhaps ?
 
Not from Eastern Europe.

Pics are hard to come by on this one. This grainy shot reveals that it is a trimotor.
 
That explains why the propeller attachment looked odd and of balance.

For some reason, my mind kept urging me toward a Blohm and Voss creation, but I can't find anything like this one.
 
Think I'm going to surrender here too - was going to have a stab at Italian - tailplane shape looks vaguely Savoia-Marchetti-ish, and they did a lot of twin-boom stuff, and there is a lot of photoshopping on it (to remove telltale tail markings?) but the whole thing is altogether too crude.
 
My initial thoughts were along the same lines as everyone else (and I've not got much time for researching this week) so I'll give up too.
 
I know where Sandar is coming from with B&V, but of course the wretched thing looks like an amphibian, but isn't ! At least, I wouldn't like to be the one to try a take-off with the lower wings underwater!
 
This funky one is a French Weymann CTW-66 of 1933. One-off built for Colonial duty. BTW- I did remove markings from the tail.


Keeping the trimotor theme rolling-
 
lefty said:
I know where Sandar is coming from with B&V, but of course the wretched thing looks like an amphibian, but isn't ! At least, I wouldn't like to be the one to try a take-off with the lower wings underwater!
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Or with that bulge under the nose. It is also a lot later than I thought, I suspected a mid twenties design
 
Don't think it is, but we'll pitch in with a Corman 3000 ?

(Got to dash off to the curling rink)
 
Drawing a blank here. I never realised there were quite as many high-wing trimotors.......................
 
Didn't think this would stump everyone. It's an Aussie Larkin (LASCo) Lasconder from 1929.

Maybe something a little more modern?
 
Er, this looks awfully like a Sturmovik to me........................

Don't know where you found the Aussie obscurity!
 
No point in splitting hairs. It's an IL-10 not a IL-2 but I guess they were both referred to as "Shturmoviks". One of two captured during the Korean war.

You were supposed to be asleep! :icon_lol: Lefty :guinness:
 
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