• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

This is the only (sorry for bad quality) photo I have ever seen of this canard.
 

Attachments

  • quiz canard- kopie.jpg
    quiz canard- kopie.jpg
    38.9 KB · Views: 15
The 4-seater had a Lycoming O-360 engine, was completed around 1980 and was cancelled from the register in 1992.
 
If you'll excuse the intrusion, Mike, I would appreciate some clarification on the Fieseler 253, if Uli or Robert can help.

There appears to have been a major redesign form the prototype, which had a straight wing leading edge and parallel wing struts - Robert's version has a decidedly 'kinked' wing leading edge and V-struts ?
 
Hi Mike.

My previous mystery probably shows the Fieseler Fi 253 V5 which was tested with folding wings and so had a slightly different layout.

Found the following photo with folded wings on luftarchiv.de
 
Yes, that's correct, Walter - except that she was F-WCZO. She's the 45hp nine cylinder Salmson radial engined Bassou 'Sport' dating from 1948. I don't have much information about her beyond what was related by Dr Barret de Nazaris. In 1948, she was based at the now defunct Saint-Privat aerodrome near Beziers. She didn't last long, as she is recorded as having been written off following an accident at the Etang de Vendres, in the Hérault, on 4 June 1950, and never made the CDN or CNRA register. However her inception remains a mystery. She was the creation of Antoine Bassou, whose other claims to fame were his prototypical pre-war ULM twin boom and pod Saphir and Rubis designs. Over to you, sir!
​
 
hi pomme homme :encouragement:
Thank you for the very useful info on the Bassou lowwinger.

Next is a p;larasolwing which obviously has no electric starter.
 

Attachments

  • quiz nostarter.jpg
    quiz nostarter.jpg
    49.5 KB · Views: 14
This is the second of three LIGHT aircraft built by the designer, all parasol wing types and the only 2-seater in te family.
Numbers 1 and 2 had a native engine, number 3 one from a neighbouring country.
 
:france: If this helps. The designer`s initials are the same as for (at least) 3 other builders from ghe same country.
 
Hi pomme homme :very_drunk:
The RL-2 it is (Salmson engine). The RL-1 had a Poinsard and the RL-3 a VW engine.
Other RL`s were of course René Leduc (Recordbreaking lightplanes) and René Leduc (Athodyd ramjet propulsion).

The forum is yours :applause:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top