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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Green and BG got it right - the Cockatoo Dockyard Wackett Codock !

Keith - in the corner with the pointy hat on, please...........(the tail is quite different..)

Over to Monsieur Vert....:very_drunk:
 
Doing a bit more research, it does look as if I'm wrong & that it is the Codock, my picture being wrongly labelled by the looks of things. The Gannets appear to have a different fin & more doors on the RHS than in the picture above, as well as some having additional sub fins on the tail.
I shall now go & hide.......& wait for Mike's reply & decision!
Keith:dizzy:
 
Thanks Lefty! Going from memory there, based on a recent AviaQuiz challenge.

Speaking of films/movies - this aircraft appeared in one. I'm not 100% certain, but it could be Paul Mantz in the cockpit...

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Some clues then.

From the movie "Keep'em Flying" with Abbott and Costello - 1941. I haven't seen the movie but I understand Mantz had to land the aircraft after the landiing gear was jettisoned in flight. Not entirely certain, but before the fictitious markings were applied, it appeared earlier in the film looking like this...

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Thanks G - I didn't get the model right, but as you say it had been mucked about a bit - the 'crashed' one in particular looks very slab-sided....... What those movie-makers get up to, eh ?

Here's another trainer from a different part of the world - this might keep you all quiet for a wee while.
 
lefty said:
Thanks G - I didn't get the model right, but as you say it had been mucked about a bit - the 'crashed' one in particular looks very slab-sided....... What those movie-makers get up to, eh ?

Here's another trainer from a different part of the world - this might keep you all quiet for a wee while.
Click to expand...

This might be a MsRE Banhidi Gerle 12 engined with a Thorotzkay or a M.Weiss SPIII....
Cheers
BG
 
Nothing like a bit of provocation, it seems...so much for keeping you all quiet.

BG is obviously partial to the Gerles - over to Italy ! :very_drunk:
 
It has the looks of an early Thurston design, but cannot find it or the tail number....?NC23170?
Franklin or Lycoming engine?
Keith
 
Funny, I didn't notice the faint tail number until you mentioned it Keith!

Not a Thurston or Goodyear effort but it is powered by a Franklin.
 
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