The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[lefty]

Sorry for the delay, chaps - battling with e-mail setup.....

Here's a machine of whose status I am uncertain - its radical designer got one even odder contraption off the gropund, but maybe not this one.

It's out of Wout's comfort zone, but I am certain one of you knows the full story, so please proceed !

 

[Moses03]

This is Marcel Leyat's flying car design from 1928. The wings would detach from the center pod section. I don't think Marcel ever quite figured out if he was designing cars or planes!

 

[lefty]

Indeed - some of his cars must have been quite spectacular to drive with whacking great aero engines up front... Over to Texas

 

[Moses03]

How about this rather simple but pleasing sport plane?

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[lefty]

Hmmm - somebody took a Cub and lowered the wing ?? I wonder why.......

 

[pomme homme]

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[Moses03]

Well, Lefty has deciphered the most obvious clue. It does share some Piper bits...

 

[lefty]

The only one in Aerofiles which seems to fit is the Nelson N-4 ?

 

[Moses03]

That fits just fine.

Over to the lowlands.

 

[lefty]

Still can't understand why anyone would want to do it !

Here's something curvy -

 

[giruXX]

Apparently the Bonney Gull

cf., AEROPLANE December 2003:

 

[giruXX]

Again something easy, I guess:

 

[Moses03]

I like the oddballs, as in the Spratt Controlwing 107.

 

[giruXX]

me too Back to Texas!

 

[Moses03]

Thanks gX.

There is an interesting story behind this cabin cruiser other than the pivoting wing struts.

 

[Moses03]

This one had a Hisso engine.

After many successful flights, the designer seems to have faded from aviation history. Maybe the stock market crash changed his path?

 

[lefty]

Trawled Aerofiles and found a few similar (Ryan, Lincoln, etc) but nothing that quite matches.....

 

[giruXX]

what about: ?

Louis H Brown, Toledo OH.
1927 = 4pO/CB; 180hp Hisso E;

 

[lefty]

Thought about that one, but it doesn't look like a 2-seat cockpit up top ? ..and I'm keen to hear about those 'pivoting wing struts' !

 

[giruXX]

I can't exclude a second seat on the right.