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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Looks like something the kids might have pulled out of a pack of cornflakes in the fifties.
Er, am I wrong or is this a light aircraft ??????
 
A few years earlier, very light and from a major manufacturer. Couldn't find anything else on my disk to post.

:)
 
Ferry, I can't believe that mine of obscurities is drying up !

Anyway, found this one - indeed by a major manufacturer (of light aircraft :)), namely a Piper PA-8 Skycycle, eh ?

(Interesting - the main net source says the forward fuselage is made from an F4U drop-tank, whereas the Jane's of the period says it is from a P-38. Anyone confirm which is right ? Kevin ?)
 
:icon29:!

Wikipedia claims the fuselage of the PA-3 Cub Cyclewas made from a F-4U Corsair belly tank, not the Pa-8.
 
Well, we have lots of floaty pushers to keep jhefner happy (!) but here's something instead that maybe proves that not everything ugly came out of Gaul !
 
Moses03 said:
Renault 12S engines? Thinking a one-off Sud-Ouest/SNCASO or SNCAC number. Hmm...
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But lefty said this wasn't French built. So that wasn't it.

P.S. my comment was in jest. I am really enjoying this thread. I used to moan that "all the good planes have already been made for Flight Simulator." Boy, was I wrong. :redface:

-James
 
Gosh, you are right. I looked at the pic and dove right into the books. :isadizzy:

Edit: Will pass along info on the Skycycle if I have anything.
 
Dear Lefty,
I am abroad right now and have no access to my own PC.
Can I ask you to post the next one on my behalf. I will be back home next Friday,
Thank you in advance.
regards, Wout
 
It is a bit obscure. American, though, all the way from sunny Pasadena.

It is a Fletcher CQ-1A aerial target control aircraft.

This is much easier....
 
10/10 for the Miles. Carry on, please ! Enjoy a :icon29: while I can still afford one ! (Wee in-joke - for those outside the UK, our tartan government wants to raise drink prices to cut down boozing in Scotland. My halo has not slipped completely in this department.)
 
................thanks for budget booze (you can get twice the recommended weekly intake of alcohol for less than £10.00 I hear.....)

..........Anyhoo - another one that looks straight off the Merry-go-Round.........
 
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