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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

I'm fairly sure that it's a pre-war avion formule Mignet but I must admit that it's not one known to me and I haven't time, this evening, to plough through the 1930s issue of Les Ailes in the hope of finding it.
 
Figured the search term "citroen" would turn something up. It is the Perrot et Senaumon Mistral of 1939. Over to gX.:icon29:

Here is the original article I had and I don't think it is from Les Ailes. There is another article in Les Ailes which I think gX found but without a photo.

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Well, the last paragraph of the article qualifies as my 'morning chuckle' -

"The tests of this propotype were undertaken in the vast desertic plain of Crau, favorable to a development without witness. But the nature of this terrain, strewn with pebbles, put the solidity of the "Mistral" to a rude test from which it came out to his honor."

Sounds like a bit of a rough ride :adoration:
 
Oh Moses03,

that was extremely tough. :pop4: Like searching a needle in a bunch of haystacks.

Here is what I found:
Technically it is interesting to note the floating rigid wing (aile vivante), i.e. a wing without ailerons.
 
A quick floater for in between, perhaps? :wiggle: Which specific aircraft is this?
 

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The final fate of the craft seems to be published in ≪l’Humanité≫ (2-7-39): http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt...%22?rk=42918;4

As that short report in L'Humanité refers to the avion Mistral which crashed on 1 July 1939 being in the course of a test flight for the Coupe Deutsch, I wonder whether this was not the Perrot et Senaumon Mistral but some other aeroplane bearing the name Mistral. Judging by the photograph and the details of the Perrot et Senaumon Mistral, I wouldn't envisage this as being a likely competitor in the Coupe Deutsch. But this issue is complicated further still by the fact that there wasn't a Coupe Deutsch de la Meurthe race in 1939, the last having taken place in 1936. Now what is it that Lefty says about aviation in France between the wars ..... !
 
While you're all debating the niceties of Gallic flivvers ,I can't resist having a bash at gX's floater. Is it D-ANHR, the Dornier Do18L ?
 
From:
L'histoire de l'aviation - Les pilotes d'essai et de voltige par Claude Clément (Conférence du mardi 23 février 2010)(Résumé et illustré par le conférencier, mise en page de Christian Lambinet)

'Lignel et Ambrosini étudient un nouveau bolide pour la coupe Deutsch: le Lignel 30 "mistral". A Buc, en 1939, la piste est bien trop courte pour cet avion et le Mistral sera démonté et transporté sur le terrain de Beauvais, beaucoup plus vaste. Le 30 juin, Louis Clément décolle et prend de l’altitude, soudain l’hélice passe brutalement sur grand pas et le couple engendré ne pu être contré
efficacement vu la faible envergure. Le Mistral part alors en tonneau déclenché en montée, le fuselage éclate et Louis se retrouve brutalement éjecté, pour la seconde fois de sa vie il est sauvé par son parachute!'
 
With that meandering thread, I've lost track of who has the honour currently (gX ?)
Anyway, I have nothing on hand, so await the next mystery !

(I'll be busy watching a rather important rugby match.....:england: v :scotland: )
 
This one is rather new. She already got her N-number and maiden flight could take place very very soon.
Btw, not intended for production.
 

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She will be, in time, just as rugby scores :untroubled:.
Not historical, yet, but mysterious then. The BA-14 Cougar (N456BA) by Bergey Aerospace.
Google for info on this new research(?) aircraft

OH please
 
Don't know where everyone else has gone, gX, so I'll have a go at the prototype Iberavia (A.I.S.A.) I-11 Peque......:spain:

Shame they mucked about with it - the prototype was very neat.
 
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