The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[giruXX]

What about this?

 

[Baragouin]

What about this?

Columbia CAL1?
Cheers
BG

If correct OH please

 

[giruXX]

Fully correct. Cheers to BG

Open House, please.

 

[Moses03]

Something different...

 

[wout]

Hi Kevin
I think this is the Monte-Copter N68P.
If that is a turbine engine behind the pilots, I would call it the Model 10A (also referred to as Model 14) which had two of these French blowers.

 

[Moses03]

Correct on all items.

Over to Wout.

Edit: Attached original photo.

 

[wout]

Thank you, Kevin
How about this tri-geared job

 

[Dev One]

Thats a much modified J2 Auster, which now makes it a J4-T Auster Archer. Regn VH-BNQ.
Keith

 

[wout]

Hi Keith
That is her. Seemed the tri-gear conversion (by Kingsford Smith Aviation) was not very successful so the aircraft was returned to J/4 original standards.

Your turn, please

 

[Dev One]

Thank you sir, so here is my offering.
Keith

 

[giruXX]

A wee Tupolev I-4 in my eyes ;-)

 

[Dev One]

Or otherwise known as an ANT-5, as this picture purports to show in prototype form.
Over to you with a stein or two of
Keith

 

[giruXX]

I've been looking here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_I-4


Here is a wee sport plane:

 

[Moses03]

Dutch Carley C.12A.

 

[giruXX]

Yes of course. Over to Texas

 

[Moses03]

And now, something wacky and wonderful...

 

[lefty]

I suppose you're going to tell us this flew.

Do you have pictures of the wreckage ????

 

[Moses03]

Do you have pictures of the wreckage ????

Why yes I do.

It was said to have managed a few hops after they rebuilt it.

 

[pomme homme]

..... after they rebuilt it.

If Dr Johnson had been expressing his witty aphorisms in the 20th Century, rather than the 18th, I suspect that he would have described the rebuilding of and attempts to fly this machine (I feel obliged to refrain from calling it an aeroplane), rather than remarriage, as the triumph of hope over experience!

The forward fuselage, at least, looks as if it has been cobbled together using a Sinclair C5, an Optimist sailing dinghy and a wheelchair!

 

[lefty]

Overlapping props (which have mysteriously morphed from pointy to flat-ended), no apparent aerofoil profile whatsoever, and a lugsail up front? Nah.......the product of a disturbed mind.