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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

A truly difficult one every now and then keeps it interesting. Never know what horrors you'll run into whilst researching. :a1310: Built in 1935. If this contraption had GPS, LORAN's, or RNAV's back then it might read 46° 00' N and 25° 00' E while floating around the countryside.

On a side note - a few years back (2007) I mentioned that I was in the process of creating a fully searchable Microsoft Access database to visually narrow down an aircraft's identity based on it's known characteristics (currently 42 categories). Well, since then the project has grown exponentially and I currently have over 46,700 types and major variants listed with complete data entered for about 2,000 of them. Partial data for another 2,500 or so. I'm guessing this will take another 10 years to complete at the current rate. Anyone interested in helping? Not sure how the database could be accessed and modified by multiple people but thought I'd toss it out there for anyone with the means and desire to see something like this come to fruition.
 
That's what I reckoned, Mike, and my knowledge of Romanian homebuilds is not what it was........(actually it never was.....) John is digging deep into Transylvanian crypts for this one.....
 
Well it does look strangely bat like! It couldn't be a motorised version of the Hannover H.1 with a wheeled undercarriage added, could it? But being serious, if it is Romanian, it doesn't seem to have had Romanian registration marks. At least, when I went through the whole of the Romanian register (did I hear someone say get a life?) I was unable to find thereon any 'one-offs' for which I couldn't find details which didn't disqualify them from being this little aeroplane.
 
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I suppose enough pain and suffering has been applied.. This one was the Nichifor Monoplane, built by Capt. Dionisie Nichifor in 1935 - taken from page 36 of "Romanian Aeronautical Constructions 1905-1974". Beyond these little snippets of information nothing further is specified about the plane.

Open house gentleman.........
 
Big brute...

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I was looking for two answers. One is the 135bis and the other is the Ca169. Apparently there is some documentation that the one-off Ca169 existed.

Suds for the Scotsman either way.:icon29:
 
On the Ca 135bis/Ca169

On September 16th 1938 the General Direction of the Aeronautical Constructions asked Caproni- Taliedo to perform an experimental installation (on a single example of Ca.135) of an 780-hp ASSO Alpha Romeo 126 R.C.34 engine fitted with a metal three-baldded propeller. The machine selected was Ca.135 M.M. 20922. The trans- formation was effected; subsequently, the same aircraft was given another experimental installation with 1,350-hp Piaggios RXII R.C.35 18 cylinder engine. On June 30th 1939 the General Direction of the Constructions Aeronautics asked for another experimental installation; this was done on another Ca.135. Other modifications in- cluded an extension of the fuselage by 50 cm. and the adoption of a new type of horizontal etail with a marked positive diehedral and twin, square fins and rudders. Ca.169, as it was designated, flew May 12th 1942


 
Thank you, Moses.

A different challenge: what is going on in that photo? who, when?
How many did they fit in max?

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Economy class to Mecca for the Hajj pilgrimage? Or is it Operation Solomon - and, if so, an El Al Boeing 747 on 24 May 1991 with a payload of 1122 passengers? The aeroplane looks too crowded for it to be Operation Moses.
 
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