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Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.
The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.
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Not sure about the crashed bits.
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pomme homme
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SAI KZ-II Trainer?
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That was fast! 
I guess I must have spent more time to alter the photo as the time to solve this mystery.
No icon for a glass of cider, so this one has to be adequate
Over to PH.
I guess I must have spent more time to alter the photo as the time to solve this mystery.
No icon for a glass of cider, so this one has to be adequate
Over to PH.
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Thank you, fabulousfour.
It was pure serendipity. Recently I'd been sorting some old photographs which included one of SE-ANM. Another KZ-II. Otherwise I'm sure that I wouldn't have been able to identify this one in seven minutes and that lefty would have pipped me at the post!
It's too hot to be out in the field with the sheep. Early morning and late evening is more conducive to that. And I really should be working on a motorcycling article which has an end of week copy deadline.
Anyhow, before getting back to work here's something that might just be a case of pareidolia (particularly if you invert the image)!
It was pure serendipity. Recently I'd been sorting some old photographs which included one of SE-ANM. Another KZ-II. Otherwise I'm sure that I wouldn't have been able to identify this one in seven minutes and that lefty would have pipped me at the post!
It's too hot to be out in the field with the sheep. Early morning and late evening is more conducive to that. And I really should be working on a motorcycling article which has an end of week copy deadline.
Anyhow, before getting back to work here's something that might just be a case of pareidolia (particularly if you invert the image)!
Fighting to stay awake with today's temperatures this reminds me of an Espenlaub model....Thank you, fabulousfour.
It was pure serendipity. Recently I'd been sorting some old photographs which included one of SE-ANM. Another KZ-II. Otherwise I'm sure that I wouldn't have been able to identify this one in seven minutes and that lefty would have pipped me at the post!
It's too hot to be out in the field with the sheep. Early morning and late evening is more conducive to that. And I really should be working on a motorcycling article which has an end of week copy deadline.
Anyhow, before getting back to work here's something that might just be a case of pareidolia (particularly if you invert the image)!
Cheers
BG (Carlo)
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Not, to the best of my knowledge, a model of any sort. And even if it was, it would have to be a pretty big one to house a 600cc OHV twin cylinder engine up front!
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Sorry, I've been out with the sheep!
Kevin is right with the period and almost right with the country. Germany and that country share a border over which the former marched not too many years after this funny wee thing first saw the light of day. It was the first powered design of a subsequently relatively well known designer.
The photograph comes from a fascinating book on a rather obscure subject. There is no indication that the subject of the photograph is a model, although certainly I can see where those who think it is are coming from. The aeroplane itself appears to be obscure in that I can find no reference to it on the internet. But it may be one that is up the straβe of fabulousfour and giruxx!
I don't know a lot more about this aeroplane other than its weight, dimensions and powerplant. So if the foregoing doesn't take anyone any closer to an identity, within the next few hours, I'll reveal all (metaphorically speaking) so that we can move on.
Kevin is right with the period and almost right with the country. Germany and that country share a border over which the former marched not too many years after this funny wee thing first saw the light of day. It was the first powered design of a subsequently relatively well known designer.
The photograph comes from a fascinating book on a rather obscure subject. There is no indication that the subject of the photograph is a model, although certainly I can see where those who think it is are coming from. The aeroplane itself appears to be obscure in that I can find no reference to it on the internet. But it may be one that is up the straβe of fabulousfour and giruxx!
I don't know a lot more about this aeroplane other than its weight, dimensions and powerplant. So if the foregoing doesn't take anyone any closer to an identity, within the next few hours, I'll reveal all (metaphorically speaking) so that we can move on.
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If Germany is almost right, it has to be Austria.
So I looked in my book "Luftfahrzeugbau in Oesterreich" and found the Meindl M1, the first construction of Erich Meindl.
It crashed on its first flight.
Edit: gX beat me while writing this post
So I looked in my book "Luftfahrzeugbau in Oesterreich" and found the Meindl M1, the first construction of Erich Meindl.
It crashed on its first flight.
Edit: gX beat me while writing this post
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It is indeed the Meindl M1 - and if my schoolboy German is not rusty to the point of disintegration, the caption to the photograph of the page you've posted, giruXX, indicates that those who thought my photograph to be of a model of the M1 were correct. So you have my apologies, although in mitigation I'll say that this was not stated in the book from which I obtained the photograph. Maybe, perhaps because it crashed on its maiden flight, no photograph of the actual aeroplane exists. Anyhow as giruXX beat fabulousfour to the answer by a short head, it's over to the former for the next offering.
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Mike, do you have a different source for the photo as gX and myself have?
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PM sent, fabulousfour.
