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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Apparently it is the C.690. I believe this to be a photo of one of the civilian C.690s, which seem to have had elevator mass balances fitted, as opposed to the military C.690/Ms, which seem not to have done so. Or at least that was the informed consensus on the French forum from which I filched this photo! So, Baragouin, you can say to Dev One: c'est à moi, aujourd'hui!
 
I think I have found further proof of it being the 690 in this photo of F-AOLM, it has the stbd pitot head & elev mass balance.
Keith
 

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pomme homme said:
That photograph appears to be pretty conclusive evidence, Keith. So we await Baragouin......
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Thanks boys and girls!
Let me apologize for the delay but my telephone lines went berserk for several hours......anyway here's my next mystery which I don't think having been shown before on this esteemed forum
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Cheers
BG
 
Thanks BG. Sorry for the late reply, been out all day and just got home a little while ago.

Here is a nice looking sport job to consider. Does the aeroplane in the background help at all?:engel016:

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Quick stab - purely based on the tail shape - something from Inland?
 

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Okay, considering this was a bit difficult with no photo at Aerofiles, I'm going to give the nod to Green.:very_drunk: Nice detective work based on the tail only!

The link PH posted takes us to a much nicer photo of the one and only Inland W-600 of 1929-30. Curious that PH's link calls it "Unidentified Inland Aircraft, Kansas City Municipal Airport, 1929".
 
..... and more curious still is that I'd visited this website within the very recent past - but I don't know why, as it is well beyond my usual sphere of interest. Thus when I saw the image it sent a mild shiver down my spine - as a result of a sense of déjà vu!
 
Thanks Moses - but it looks like PH got much closer to the answer than I did. Busy period here and travelling soon so I'll declare open house.

Have a good Easter.
Cheers.
 
Here's something probably well known, although in this image missing significant parts of its whole, to keep the ball rolling .....



As to the Inland W-600, all I did was to post another copy of the original photo. I don't think that I even got the answer right. And if I did, if it was an Inland Sport variant, then I can hardly claim much credit as Green had put up of photograph of exactly that aeroplane!
 
I'm surprised, you gentlemen back in the old country, that you haven't recognised this little avion yet. The French have allowed you to take two of them back to blighty and put them on the register there (although I think that neither are airworthy at the moment). However that's twice the number that, I believe, are active in France at present. C'est triste!
 
I've been holding off, because I'm away for most of the week so will probably have to declare OH if I'm correct.

Is this the Brochet Pipistrelle ?
 
It is indeed, lefty. Which places the ball in your court - either to play it or allow someone else to serve it.

And if I may, tomorrow I'll post an unobscured copy of the photograph I used - because if I've read correctly the registration that appears to be on the fuselage, it appears not to be one of the homebuilt Pipistrelles that are recorded and it doesn't appear to be a new homebuild bearing an officially allocated foxtrot papa registration.
 
Thanks PH - in fact I have a wee chappie here ready - from the Fifties - I imagine someone will get it (especially if a certain Dutchman is lurking) so please proceed....

PS - wonder if this is a high or mid-wing ...........:mixed-smiley-010:
 

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Here's the unexpurgated photo of the Pipistrelle airframe. The registration looks to be something like F-PRZR but, according to the DGAC website, that registration mark appears not to have been issued (indeed, in the F-PRZ# range, only F-PRZZ seems to have been issued). The photograph came from the à vendre section of the RSA website, some years ago, when this aeroplane was being offered for sale. Can anyone more knowledgeable than me - or more adept in the black arts of Photoshop - identify this aeroplane?

 
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