The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[fabulousfour]

Thanks, Walter.

Do you - or anyone else - know, whether the "Dos Equis Challenger" mentioned at aerofiles and the Wildfire by Statler are the same aircraft with different names?

Here's my next challenge.

 

[lefty]

That lady is surely Amelia, and she is standing by a Merrill CIT-9.

 

[wout]

Hi fabulousfour
I think they are. AFAIK the Dos Equis beer company was the original sponsor of the project by RACE (Racing Aircraft Configuration Engineering) of Bill Statler and Charles Beck. When the company withdraw the name became Wildfire.

 

[lefty]

Walter, your knowledge of exotic ales puts me to shame.....

 

[fabulousfour]

Thanks for your very informative answer, Walter!

Mike, it is indeed Amelia and the plane is the Merrill CIT-9 aka Safetyplane

Over to Scotland.

 

[lefty]

Thank you Robert.

Here's another slim lady.......

 

[cthornburg]

Blanchard Farman HB5

Chris

 

[lefty]

You are good on your floaters, Chris ( I have it as Farman-Blanchard Trimoteur - being French, it will have at least two other designations). Over to you..

 

[cthornburg]

Little unusual shape.

Chris

 

[wout]

Hi Chris
The Adkisson SJ-1 Head Skinner?

 

[cthornburg]

That's it over to you

Chris

 

[wout]

A small bipplane.

 

[wout]

This biplane was one of several designs of a father and sons team.
Several of these were biplanes with negative features.

 

[fabulousfour]

Maybe the Sorrell DFG-1?

Couldn't find a picture of it.

 

[wout]

Hi fabulousfour
Excellent detective work!. DFG-1 (N7157) built by Hobie (Hobart) Sorrell. Flew 1958, 40hp Mercury outboard engine, geodetic fuselage construction.
Another picture for your collection.

 

[fabulousfour]

Thanks, Walter.

I thought that the "negative features" of your hint related to the stagger of the wings, so Sorrell came to my mind.

Something older again.

 

[fabulousfour]

This is an early design of a famous manufacturer mainly known for his WW2-aircraft.

 

[lefty]

I think that's the Focke-Wulf A 7.

 

[fabulousfour]

That's the bird.
The first design of Focke-Wulf after WW1.

Over to you, Mike

 

[lefty]

Thanks Robert. Something a bit later - this twin is very easy, but I don't think it has been here before.