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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

How about a visual answer.

Thought it was Balzac V but I don't think so.

Chris
 

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Nobody else jumping in, Chris, so I'll have a go at the Dayton-Wright TA-5. Must have been an 'interesting' landing - rather him than me !
 
I thought, well according to Spike Milligan I believe, they had left legs longer on one side, whilst the opposite sex had them the other side!!
Keith
 
Lefty right on over to you. This was the first picture of it I had then found a pix with the normal wheels just recently.

Chris

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pomme homme said:
That avatar, Mike, is it a great chieftain o' the puddin'-race? If so, my wife was making the very same this afternoon!
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Haggis ? And lamb, cider, Calvados and boudin noir too ? I think I'm emigrating.........:very_drunk:

Anyway, back to matters aeronautical - here's a twin, which I suspect may have appeared here before - if so, sorry - but it's quite a nice cuddly one.....
 

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OK, I know at least two of you have this one bagged - time for one of you shrinking violets to get this thing moving again !
 
The Grumman bits were built into the Southernaire BM-11 of Houston, TX.


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Okay, this shrinking violet will move things along with an interesting (amphibian?) that showed up in another thread recently. (It has a pusher configuration but either the prop is not installed or the photo is so grainy one can't quite make it out).

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Like the previous BM-11, this one was built from parts of an earlier amphibian. Powered by a Menasco engine, circa 1939.
 
Not obvious enough for my research I'm afraid, mind you it looks as if it could do with some outriggers before trying to float it!!!
Keith
 
Dev One said:
it looks as if it could do with some outriggers before trying to float it!!!
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The previous design (another company) did have outriggers and looked like a proper amphibian. Maybe that is why they gave up on building new aircraft and ended up working on military glider parts during WWII before fading into history.
 
Well that clinches it - thought it looked a bit like the Argonaut design, did a bit of digging, and came up with the White Gull.

Aerofiles says it was a 4-seater - must have been cosy in there !
 
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