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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

You deserve your applause:applause:!
It is the german made Caspar C33 of 1928 (a very proficient company indeed Caspar was! They even sold one of their products to the U.S.....)
Your turn dear Friend
Cheers
BG
 
Thanks BG.

From the fatherland to...

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Oh dear, there were so many of these trimotor one-offs floating around Europe - could this be the ANF-Les Mureaux 140T ??
 
Lefty has safely navigated the Euro trimotor waters of the 1930's. Indeed the 140T. :very_drunk:

Do your worst-
 

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Digging deeper (or should it be plunging?) into those depths, I discovered this Salon photo which includes, amongst others, the ANF 140 (on the left) - but what on earth is that bizarre hydravion in the foreground ?
 
That's the one, BG -or Caudron-Viscaya, as it is sometimes referred to. :icon29:

Pierre de Viscaya interests me - quoted as the designer - but all I can find out about him is that he was a famous Bugatti race driver. Is it the same guy ?

Strange that the Bugatti connection often crops up in aircraft ( like the Bugatti-de Monge machine).
 
Could find nothing on Pierre Mike, as far as his aviation interests anyways. Interesting connection there.
 
Morning all
ANT-42 ? TB-7 ? Surely the Pe-8 ! :dizzy: Designed by A.N.Tupolev, delegated to the Petlyakov bureau for ongoing development (presumably Tupolev had too many other things going on......) Think TB-7 was probably the Air Force designation.

Anyway Moses' grainy warrior is the Finnish-built Fokker D XXI which had a locally-designed retractable gear fitted by Valmet. It unfortunately displayed an alarming tendency to collapse at the crucial moment, and was a wee bit expensive, so was abandoned. The angles look all wrong anyway..

There were apparently two aircraft thus modified - FR-117, a Dutch-built Mercury-engined machine, and FR-167, a locally-built model with Twin Wasp.
 
Lefty has scored a direct hit on the Fokker (you can see the hole between the cockpit and cowling!).

:very_drunk: Well done Sir.
 
Hi Mike :encouragement:
This beauty is the Rohr M.O.1 (nickname Midnight Oiler).
It evolved into the even prettier M.R.1
 
I thought that might tempt you out of your lair, Walter ! :icon29: Rohr it is - not too many photos of this rare one...
 
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