The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[dan_pub]

They even managed to crash it.
https://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/Valkyrie-Continues-After-Testing-Mishap-229969-1.html

 

[Moses03]

That is the one Mike.

Lead us off for 2018.

 

[lefty]

Thank you Kevin - what better than a grainy floater ?

 

[Moses03]

I recognize the location but no luck on the make and model just yet.

 

[Baragouin]

I recognize the location but no luck on the make and model just yet.

Finally something that I know: Vecihi-Hürkus K.KVID....
Cheers
Carlo (BG)

 

[lefty]

Carlo comes up trumps with the tantalising Turk !

Not sure about Kevin's familiar stretch of water - might be the Bosphorus ?

Anyway, over to Italy..

 

[Moses03]

Not sure about Kevin's familiar stretch of water

Me neither. I was a little off there.

 

[Baragouin]

Sorry for the delay gentlemen!
And here's my new offer a floater for a change...
Cheers
Carlo (BG)
https://imgur.com/a/FvrIC

 

[fabulousfour]

Could this be the Piaggio P.9 on floats and with a radial engine?

 

[Baragouin]

Could this be the Piaggio P.9 on floats and with a radial engine?

This is exactly what it is Robert! Your turn...Cheers
Carlo (BG)

 

[fabulousfour]

Thanks, Carlo!

Here is a sweet little biplane.

 

[fabulousfour]

Regarding the used material this plane seems to be a "first" in aviation history.

Not a one-off, flown in the early twenties.

 

[giruXX]

it looks somewhat like a Longren AK

 

[fabulousfour]

Well, it should look like a Longren AK because it is a Longren AK.
Probably the first aircraft built of composite material.

Over to the Black Forest.

 

[giruXX]

Here comes an optically similar thing, albeit without the upper wing:

 

[fabulousfour]

Cute.

That one would fit into a garage I think.

 

[giruXX]

... and almost in a hummingbird's nest

 

[giruXX]

This plane flew for the first time at the Long Beach Municipal Airport in 1926 with a 24 h.p. engine.

 

[giruXX]

It’s the Brea “Humming Bird”

It’s the Brea “Humming Bird”, see Aero Digest April 1926, p.198 https://archive.org/stream/aerodigest8919unse#page/n89/mode/2up

As to the garage: look how many garages Google finds at “Hummingbird Dr, Brea, CA 92823”

Open House!!

 

[fabulousfour]

An interesting article about the Brea/Tremaine Humming Bird can be viewed here starting at page 4.