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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Yup, you got the Breda, Ferry. It is very difficult to get pictures of the Jetcruzer 450 - I worked it out from similar configuration to the 500, which is actually first in one of my books, AASI coming before even Aermacchi.

Your turn now. I wonder what lefty's buying? Christmas presents? :confused: Another :icon29: to Ede!
 
Yep, it looked like the Beech Starship 2000, of which Scaled Composites (Burt Rutan's company) once built an 85% scale model, called the model 115. I then recalled the Jetcruzer had a similar wing configuration, and I did find out about the 450 model, but it was getting too late to look any further. And I'm not exactly an 'early bird'. ;)

Here's something interesting:
 
Well I bought no presents today, but did get my cards.

Ferry's right - his mystery is interesting - it is the Planet Satellite from, believe it or not, 1948 !

I don't feel so bad now about my De Monge, because this one here definitely did not fly !
 
lefty said:
because this one here definitely did not fly !
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Yes it did ! Not for very long, and it crashed on both occasions, but it did fly! (Well, hop actually..) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Satellite

"The Chief Test Pilot at RAE Farnborough, Group Captain H.J. Wilson (holder of the World speed Record in the Gloster Meteor), after several long runs down the runway, managed to get the Satellite airborne at Blackbushe. The first "hop" was followed by the collapse of the undercarriage. After repairs, the prototype was flown off the ground and after reaching an altitude of barely 20 ft was put down on the ground gently but nonetheless, the main keel had been cracked by the force of the landing. The conclusion of the Air Registration board investigating the "accident" was that the aircraft was badly understressed and would necessitate a complete redesign.
The manufacturers had already begun the production of a second prototype and despite an investment of £100,000, chose to wind down the program with no further attempts to fly the Planet Satellite."

To make it even more interesting, the fuselage of the second protoype was used in 1952 to build the 'Firth Helicopter' which never did fly.
 
Off to watch Scotland being slaughtered by the Springboks.

Just to prove it ain't only French kites that are ugly...............
 
That's the 1922 Bristol Racer (G-EBDR). BTW- I was fascinated by the DeMonge.

Moving the show along-
 
Well, reverse-rake windscreens (sorry, windshields) were largely a Western Hemisphere fashion (an ugly one at that -did they not possess wind tunnels?) so I suppose we'll have to delve into those archives.
 
This is from Europe and was built for a single purpose, except that it wasn't finished in time so it ended up delivering mail until the war broke out.
 
Yep, it's the Air Couzinet 10 v2 built for the Istres-Damascus-Paris air race. The first one was a completely different model.

Close enough just guessing the AC-10. :guinness:Over to you.
 
Looks like a Sadler Vampire but I never heard of an armed version before. Maybe a creative owner..?
 
That was quick - it is the Sadler A-22 - converted from the Vampire not by a belligerent owner but by Mr Sadler. Apparently they nearly
sold it to the Turkish Air Force. Here it is ready for bed. (Like me - goodnight all)

:icon29: to Ferry.
 
No doubt that the Greek would have been mightily impressed by those Turkish two-cylinder armed ultralights! :costumes:
 
Ta Ferry - that Lockspeiser hung around for a wee while when I put it up some time ago.

So did this one.......
 
I have been waiting for Lefty to break out the Ahrens AR 404.

Don't want to hold up the show so here is the next contestant. A nifty twin boom pusher...
 
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