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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Hmm, them pesky Zeps! Well, to attack those you really need to climb, so even things like One-and-a-Half Strutters were useful. This is obviously a floater, so it won't be going very high in the sky. The RNAS's other technique was to sneak up on the Zeppelins in their sheds. That was done with modified - reliable - Camels launched from ships converted to carriers. This aeroplane isn't any of those and I don't think it was used in the Great War. If it was British you'd think Supermarine, Blackburn or Fairey, but it doesn't have any of their characteristics, especially in the strut department...

So still baffled. Best guess is that it might be British; was, as you say, designed to meet an anti-zep requirement, but modified into a little-used shipborne floater? Can't find it in my British Naval Aircraft book, however! :confused:
 
Yes it was British. It is a Port Victoria P.V.2 from 1916. Another one-off that didn't see production.

Up next, a really ugly jet. Modeled after a baleen whale no doubt.
 
The aircraft is the Trella T-21 (aka the T-106). Registration N450C and built/flown 1949 by brothers Frank & Fred Trella of Detroit, MI. Initially with 85hp Continental C85, later (ca. 1965) with 125hp Lycoming O-290
 
A brewski to the newcomer. :icon29: Welcome to SOH!

Your turn fasm. (Please see beginning of thread if you have any questions about posting aircraft).
 
cheers
some streamlined one...
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