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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

It's the size of the cockpit canopy that gets me - apart from the two pilots, you could get a reasonable crop of tomatoes in there..........
 
Thank you Lefty.

Here is a slightly older entry, that could be mistaken for the ancestor of the Flapjack:
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Didn't know that he made more than the one, let alone having folding wings, but googling this appears to be Clement Ader's Avion III.
Keith
 
You have it. this is the third steam-propelled Avion, named Aquilon, which Ader flew in 1998.
He failed to win the Army's contract, when he proved unable to complete a closed circuit.
(It did not help that he tried to make square turns ...)

The floor is yours.
 
Thanks D-P, although I gathered that it was not really controllable & the government pulled out its funding.
Anyway your next challenge is:
Keith
 

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Moses, Spot on, thought it might last a little longer, but We have a lot of experts here!
Over to you sir with a small reward:very_drunk:.
Keith
 
Right, here's a trainer -built by a well-known company but few made -
 

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