The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[pomme homme]

I'm afraid that the Ponnier D.III is not known to me - but I can't conceive of it being an alternative name for this aeroplane, having regard to how well known is the name of the gentleman who designed it.

Having researched the Ponnier D.III, I think that you may be so warm that you're risking a burn! But we're back to a subject that will have lefty chortling. My source suggests that you're out by a year. But my source is not exactly overflowing with information - so it could be that we are splitting hairs. The problem is that I just don't know!

 

[lefty]

Lefty has duly chortled, and thinks this must be the Hanriot-Pagny monoplane ? (more cider, Mike....)

 

[fabulousfour]

That is kind of strange.
When searching for the solution the Hanriot monoplane did cross my way.
However, I couldn't find any photo of her with an undercarriage similar to that on the mystery photo, so I discarded the Hanriot.
Maybe that was a fault.

 

[pomme homme]

I think that the two of you ought to charge your glasses and drink from them together - and then I'll leave it to both to decide who first slams their empty glass on the table and posts the next mystery!

The source of this photograph simply describes it as 'the small Gordon-Bennett Hanriot monoplane' of 1912 - but could it also be the Hanriot D.I (although the undercarriage is wrong for that), the Ponnier D.III (with similar undercarriage) or the Hanriot D.III (of which I can't find a photograph showing its undercarriage). But as lefty, no doubt, would say: 'well, it is French, isn't it'!

Now where's that trophy for my cider!

 

[fabulousfour]

I'll leave it to lefty, he had at least Hanriot in his answer

 

[lefty]

Don't have a proper mystery - but perhaps someone can identify this curious tailless object spotted when Google Earth-ing Biggin Hill ?

 

[Moses03]

That blue and white Piper(?) is still parked in the area but no sign of the tailless airframe. Looks kind of Rutanish (at least the wing shape anyways).

 

[lefty]

Don't know which version of GE you have, Kevin, but it's still there in mine, imagery dated 4/8/17 (British date version)

It looks like a glider, perhaps, and, judging by the shadow, has winglets....

 

[fabulousfour]

I found it too, on my laptop and on my ipad as well.

I don't think it is a glider, the center of gravity would be too much forward without a canard, provided that there isn't missing a part of the plane.

Somehow I get the imagination that the mystery is lying upside down, I can't see any windows.
The black dot on the nose might be a part of the nose gear then.

My first thought was that it is a Velocity, but it doesn't quite fit the shape - and where are the canards?

 

[Moses03]

I just pulled up Google maps, assuming it was up to date. No idea then.

 

[lefty]

If Walter doesn't know, which I find unlikely, we'll have to leave it. (Don't think it is upside-down, Robert - the shadow of the winglet precludes that.) Let's have OH ?

 

[fabulousfour]

Let's go on with this mystery.

 

[Moses03]

Look at that wood grain. I would be a little surprised if it didn't come out of some old growth timber in the Black Forest.

 

[fabulousfour]

Kevin, the plane is European but NOT German. And it is not a "homebuilt".
It was used military.

 

[lefty]

Robert, that looks like a Walter motor - could this be an ANBO V with the larger engine option ?

 

[fabulousfour]

Mike, close enough for me, I have it as ANBO III.

An alcohol-free beer in the morning for you

 

[lefty]

Thanks Robert - have given myself a sharp rap on the knuckles for sloppy identification !

Here's something bigger --

 

[fabulousfour]

That looks very much like the SABCA S.11 in its redesigned form.

 

[lefty]

Indeed it is, Robert - looks sophisticated enough, but the poor pilot was still stuck out in the open air ! Over to you -

 

[fabulousfour]

Thanks, Mike

I will be back at my own PC only in a few hours again, so, if anybody wants to post a mystery earlier feel free to do so.