Thanks Dev One!
I can see there a Adaro 1.E7 "Chirta" a spanish product of 1935....
Cheers
BG
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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.
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I can see there a Adaro 1.E7 "Chirta" a spanish product of 1935....
Cheers
BG
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High Lefty!
this is a creature of Engineer Anton Kuhelj from Slovenia who designed several other light Touring aircrafts (by the way the wheels are not retractable). I'm sure you will sort it out with these clues (if not I'll let you know later in the afternoon)!
Cheers
BG
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Phew, this one appears to make my French obscurata look like commonplace! But based on the clues provided and even though I've failed to find a picture of it, I'll take a guess at the Albatros Alka of 1940.
Very nice detective work Pomme-homme! it is indeed the AL(batros)KA (Kuhelj Anton) of 1940 fitted with a Gipsy Major (132HP). She competed against the Brucos and the Aero 4 but didn't win and sank into oblivion....
Your well deserved turn
Cheers
BG
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Thank you, Baragouin. It's nice to shoot blind and still hit the target!
Continuing with the obscure, here's something else that didn't make make much of a mark on aeronautical history and seems to have disappeared without leaving any legacy. And so that no-one can say that I am not generous, there are two images and a three view of it!
Continuing with the obscure, here's something else that didn't make make much of a mark on aeronautical history and seems to have disappeared without leaving any legacy. And so that no-one can say that I am not generous, there are two images and a three view of it!
pomme homme
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Well, as Baragouin has not yet ridden in to help(!), I'm happy to oblige.
Yes, it's French. But I suspect that's no surprise. It doesn't date from the early thirties but from the late thirties. Had you been a 'hangar rat' at Orly in '38 or '39, you might have spotted this aeroplane. Whilst I can see why you say Bodiansky or Guerchais, lefty, it's not a product of either. Contemporary sources described it as an 'avion léger d'études'. It was powered by a nine cylinder 60 cv Anzani, with a reduction gear, and employed Handley Page slats. It seems that it was the third aeroplane produced by its creator but not, I suspect, the third example of this model. But if that's so, then I must deduce that the other two were even more obscure still!
Yes, it's French. But I suspect that's no surprise. It doesn't date from the early thirties but from the late thirties. Had you been a 'hangar rat' at Orly in '38 or '39, you might have spotted this aeroplane. Whilst I can see why you say Bodiansky or Guerchais, lefty, it's not a product of either. Contemporary sources described it as an 'avion léger d'études'. It was powered by a nine cylinder 60 cv Anzani, with a reduction gear, and employed Handley Page slats. It seems that it was the third aeroplane produced by its creator but not, I suspect, the third example of this model. But if that's so, then I must deduce that the other two were even more obscure still!
pomme homme
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I regret to say that this mystery is neither the handiwork of Adolphe Lachassagne nor, to the best of my knowledge, the Aviana 10 (which is unknown to me). I don't wish to prolong matters unnecessarily, particularly as I've disclosed most of the pertinent information which I have, so I'll let this one run until the end of the day and, unless someone has identified it by then, I'll spill the beans.
pomme homme
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I've managed to find another image of this oddity which better illustrates its curious retractable wingtip extensions. Presumably these and the Handley Page slats were intended to serve its goal of very low speed flight. Its minimum airspeed was only 40 kph!
pomme homme
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That's the beast - although my source has it as the Marais-Lauret 'Ailette'. So when, after supper, I pour myself a glass of eau-de-vie, I'll pour a second one for you, Moses03, by way of a reward for your endeavours. But if you don't turn up to drink it, I'll just have to consume it myself. Oh, what a burden! But in the meantime, it's all yours, sir.
