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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

IT certainly looks like it's rugged.. or perhaps made of solid steel, considering the wing struts.

Have to wonder if there was a spy in the Caspar factory or did someone else 'discover' their "inverted sesquiplane empennage" at the same time..
 
It looks like two Revell kits cannibalized to make one aircraft - the upper and lower wings don't remotely match, the strutting is bizarre, and as for the tail unit.....
 
This one is a real oddball. :p:

Found another view in the Moze archives. Hope you don't mind John. Hate to waste a good rare photo. (Should drive Mike, Rob, anyone else nuts.) :icon_lol:


DHC2Pilot said:
AB Svenska Jernvagsverkstaderna
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I think you are supposed to hold a hankerchief over your face when you say this.
 
And to think that all these years I've been blaming the French for making ugly aircraft....

(By the way, to us purists it is Svenska Järnvägsverkstäderna - the wee dots are awfy important, ye ken)
 
OK, you guys, you've been enjoying this, but I found it. ('had design problems' - I wonder why ???)

Shall we leave it or will Rob never speak to us again ??
 
If you know it, go ahead with the reveal. It's a cutthroat world. :) Dunno why Kevin clammed up all this time - I guess it's just his humble nature (COUGH)<COUGH>.
 
lefty said:
And to think that all these years I've been blaming the French for making ugly aircraft....

(By the way, to us purists it is Svenska Järnvägsverkstäderna - the wee dots are awfy important, ye ken)
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My keyboard doesn't have funny umlaut dots......that is unless I use ALT-characters. Too much work.
 
Shall we press on then? The beast is a Thomas-Morse TM.24. From what I was reading about it (along with design problems as Lefty said), the Army passed after tests revealed dodgy flight characteristics and too high of a landing speed.

And now for something completely different...
 
Shall we leave it or will Rob never speak to us again ??
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I just woke up and only had 1.6 cups of coffee, but the second view hit home. I knew I'd seen it before. By coffee #3 I might have had it.. maybe.. perhaps. As soon as I saw Thomas-Morse.. bingo!

lefty said:
The joys of Vista - the Language Bar - and a pop-up virtual keyboard courtesy of Kaspersky.
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My only annoyance with Vista - somehow FS9/Multiplayer sneaks a grope with the language bar and converts to Francais which is another reason for not wanting to use that archaic Chatbox.. and I keep trying to deselect it.

Onward and upward!
 
Morning chaps. Yes, Kevin it was the Dewoitine D-26-1 of the Swiss Air Force.

Curiously, both airframe and engine made in other countries than that of their origin - the former by KW in Thun, Switzerland, and the Wright 9Qc by Hispano-Suiza in Paris.

:icon29: to go with a nice wedge of Gruyère....
 
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