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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Not a Pilatus, but you are getting much closer.

And I owe an apology to Lefty: there is no Meridien in it, but there are indeed parts of another Piper model in this wot.
 
Hi dan_pub :encouragement:
The GM-17 Viper by Technoavia from Russia?
A single-engine conversion (one of my M601 turbines) of the Piper PA-31P Pressurized Navajo
 
Indeed it is this common Russia-Switzerland project, called Intracom GM-17 Viper.
Here seen at TechnoAvia in 2003.
Congrats and the floor is yours.
 
Thank you dan_pub :encouragement:
I think the Swiss and Russian partners entered in some disagreements so the project was not that succesful. Maybe only some 7 GM-17s were completed.

My new offering is a yellow bird
 

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Yes, Walter - I'm sure we'd all twigged the An-2 in the background - trouble was, it didn't help !

However, further digging has uncovered a Small Hedgehog - the Istra Ezhik.
 
Hi Mike :very_drunk:
That`s her! I threw in the Russian names because I did not want you all to think the background plane was a Y-5!
Why are ag-planes always not so pretty?

Please go ahead and tickle the sawdust
 
I don't tickle the sawdust - spit in it on occasion.....

We've been getting a bit modern recently - let's head back a bit for a one-off floater -
 

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I think this is the d'Artois Hydravion of 1913 that pilot Louis Gaudart lost his life in.
 

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Thanks Mike.

Here is an easy one. Something more my liking.

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An interesting quirk to this machine is that the prop arcs overlapped. The designer wanted the thrust to be as close to the center line as possible.

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It's our old chum Louis de Monge again - master of the bizarre. This is the Buscaylet-de Monge 7.3 -really quite a wee machine ,as this superbly grainy side view shows !
 

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You got it Mike. The 7.3 it is.:very_drunk:

What scant information I have found, it actually flew pretty well! Test flights circa November 1923.
 
Thank you -here's a flying pic - September 1923 - Alexis Maneyrol pilot.
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It is very difficult to keep you chaps puzzled - so here's another easy one - don't think it has been here before - a nice twin.

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