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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

This one has a few different names. Will go with Constructions Aeronautics Taliedo Q.R.14 Levriero.
 
Correct Moses03!.
I've also seen it described as the Marinavia QR-14. Registration was I-MFTA and the sole example was scrapped around 1952. Engines btw were two Alfa Romeao 110bis (130hp each).
The ball is in your court
 
Probably French (And Lefty's most likely right) but I haven't ruled out the possibility it's Russian..
 
Not a de Monge but on the right track.

Here is a side view showing the unusual gear setup.

Edit: Another pic showing it in the field. Photos are hard to come by on this one.
 
Struggling with the new one too - looks very like the Martin GMP/T-1 - tail unit, gear, etc almost identical.
 
OK, found it. The Barnhart Twin 15 Wampus Kat (Oh dear).

'Demolished in hangar by a freak windstorm'. Well, as they say, it's an ill wind.........
 
Nah - I'm back on the real stuff, thanks.:friday:

If you like old airliners, and unlovely ones at that, how about this crate, which squeezed in 10 unfortunate souls, who at least didn't have to look at it.

And, the thing that looks like a Cross of Lorraine isn't - this machine is not French.
 
No, the flying supermarket trolley isn't German, Ferry.

I am ashamed to say that this vision of ugliness was designed by a Scotsman.
 
Right. George Handasyde, the Scot in question, set up a business with Helmut Martin called, wait for it - Martinsyde !
George split in 1920, and tendered for a contract for a plane to do the Adelaide-Sydney run. Hence the Handasyde H.2.
The prospect of this brute wheezing its way over the Outback must have had the underwriters quaking in their boots.

Here's a zappy chappy you will all know....
 
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