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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Unfortunately I couldn't tell you where I ran across the pic of the Tupolev....somewhere in the dark corners of the WWW.
 
A transport-

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This one was used for all kinds of purposes; cargo, passengers etc. Only one built and it crashed after six months of service due to engine failure. First flight 1927.
 
It looks like one of my earlier plastic kits where the bits didn't quite fit properly - those doors are an afterthought ! Can't find this - presume it's American ??
 
Hi,

I'm pretty sure that is the new May B Stealthy Fighter/Tea tray/Mobile Library from Iran. It definitely flies under the Radar anyway as it has a Health and Safety defined operational ceiling of 250 ft and a maximum water enabled TakeOff Speed (or is it Landing?) of 32 mph.

Andy
 
You're right - the He44 was a development, but reverted to a rear pilot's cockpit, and had smaller tail surfaces.

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Never seen a pic of the He40 before without the jazzy newspaper paint job !
 
To continue... I don't normally do the early stuff, but this is such a wonderful photo, and the machine so bizarre, that I just had to include it. Amazingly, it got off the water !!
 
It looks like Favre's Hydroavion.

(And if so, open house. I don't have anything at the level of expertise required here, sorry.)
 
You got it, Dan ! Don't do yourself down - post anything you like - the locals here are friendly.......

I still wouldn't have believed M. Fabre's machine would have hauled itself off the ocean if I hadn't seen the photograph.
 
OK i'll give it a try.

the plane model is probably easy to id, so the question is: who are those people and what is happening in this photo?
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Operation Solomon

You got it. This is an El Al 747 with all seats removed, for the emergency rescue of the Ethiopian Jews just before the takeover of Adis Ababa by the Muslim rebels in May 1991.
The Israeli air force evacuated 14,000 people in a 36-hours airlift, with 747s and C-130s stripped of all seats and everything removable. One of the flights set the world record for passenger load, when a 747 carried 1,122 passengers to Israel. :icon_eek:

(Haile Selassie himself was not part of the repatriated, being 15 years dead in 1991. He was killed by the DERG in 1975. Besides, being the Rastafari messiah, it is doubtful whether he would have considered himself a Jew :icon_lol: )

The air force called the operation mivtza shlomo, in English operation Solomon, after the biblical king. The origin of Ethiopian Jews is not known with certainty (all written documents destroyed during persecutions), and one of the theories is that they are descended from king Shlomo and queen of Sheba.

Congrats and over to you, Lemonadedrinker :icon29:
 
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