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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Sort of the dumpy distant cousin to the Sikorsky S-43.

Let's try this early 1920's biplane.

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Bit of a stinker, this one. Obvious DH tail, and what looks like a DH9 in the background.

Looks like a mail plane, judging from the bulgy compartment ahead of the pilot. But the killer is that very odd Brisfit-style wing arrangement with 'floating' fuselage. Can't find anything in the DH books. Hmmmm...
 
Yep, a bit of a stinker! It was originally powered with a Salmson radial. Not sure what engine is in the photo. Not anything DH as well.

You are spot on with the mail plane thought...

The designer later built a really interesting large twin boom racer.
 
Well I'll be blowed if I can find a name for it! Some call it a 'home built biplane'. Others a 'new mailplane'. Even Aerofiles is reticent on this topic, saying no more than :

'1923 = 1pOB; 270hp Salmson Z-9; v: 122. Chesty, mail-type plane used by Vance for transcontinental speed attempt'.

But this may not be it as there are reports of Vance putting down in the San Francisco Bay in 1922 a new mailplane that he was testing. I'm well out of my comfort zone!
 
I had the same sketchy info as ph, so couldn't name a model, and nothing else on the net about Mr Vance other than his sad demise.

Still reckon he used bits of DH4 or DH9 in that machine, whatever it's called ! (maybe bits of F2B also!)
 
The nod goes to Lefty here for the Vance find.:very_drunk:

PH- Aerofiles seems to have omitted the re-engined version!
 
Yes, we need a name, please !

In the meantime, here's another machine also designed to carry mail as well as passengers - not a thing of beauty, I think you'll agree...

(Incidentally, I have discovered what was causing my photo upload problems - along with internet speed problems in general. There is a nasty little add-on included in the installation suite for ASUS motherboards, called Network Icontrol. If you find that installed amongst your programs, GET RID OF IT !)
 

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That is the Sikorsky S-32.

Have no name or designation on the non-Salmson Vance. Seems to have fallen through the cracks.
 
Immediate thought was a French Hanriot, but...
Is that space behind the sliding cockpit canopy eventually going to be filled in with metal?

Potez 220??
 

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Filled with Hitler youth more likely as this was 1 of 2 completed before Germany steamrolled into France a few months later.

Indeed the Potez. Good one G!:very_drunk:
 
Looks like Douglas BTD-1 or maybe XSB2D can't see the tail.
Anyone have a pix of XBTD-2 I found a pix in a magazine but have lost it.

Chris
 
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