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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

HNi giruXX:encouragement:
One of the many post-war Formula One (Goodyear) racers, the Flightways (Fliteways) Special (NX18219) by a team including Ben White.
Flown 1947, lost 1948
 
This VW/powered one was the first aircraft designed/built in that country.
 

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That is the Bocono I built by Vicente Zambrano from Venezuela, first flight around 1965 I think.

If correct, Open House please, I'm not at home for the next hours.
 
hi fabulousfour:very_drunk:
Correct on all points! Thew aircraft was donated to the Venezuelan Air Force Museum, but there she was considered as "of no interest" and was destroyed at a later stage.
Mr. Z also started construction of a small heli, but that was not finished.

OH as requested by fabulousfour
 
Hi giruXX :encouragement:
Your beauty is the Okamura N-52 two-seater from Japan. Sometimes called the Nihon N-52, as the Nihon University participated in the design.
There is also mention of an N-52A model which, if it ever existed, could be the N-52 re-engined with a C85 (instead of the A65).
Sources say 3 were built as N-52. Could these have been 2 test airframes in addition to the flying JA3024?.
I only saw pictures of JA3024.
 
Thank you Walter:encouragement:

Your information is again overwhelming. :icon29:
I can't say which craft is depicted as it was photographed without immatriculation.
 
The builder (same name as a fish known for her tiny but expensive eggs) used many Aeronca Chief parts, including the fuselage.
 
The twinfinner is the STUR-001 by Thomas E. Sturgeon. Registered N277TS, completed 1986, Lycoming O-235 engine and detachable wings.

Open House, please
 
Mike, I'm holding back this time but I have a hot contender for this biplane.
However, on the pictures I found the nose looks rather different.

Was it built by Gérard C. and the last letter of its registration is a "J"?
 
Having found, online, an earlier photograph of the same aeroplane, I can now see from where Robert and Walter are coming. It does seem to have been significantly remodelled between the time that photograph was taken and last Sunday.
 
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