The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[wout]

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

 

[wout]

The 4-seater had a Lycoming O-360 engine, was completed around 1980 and was cancelled from the register in 1992.

 

[wout]

The canard is the Koch Mark 4 (Mk.4) by Wayne L. Koch. Registration N32WK

OH please

 

[fabulousfour]

Hi Walter.

There is an article about the Koch canard in "Sport Aviation" from March 1975 including two construction photos and a drawing.

You can download that magazine here:

https://dl.edoc.site/download/sport...8a4d&captcha=14eebdeee74758aedec3055635235149

 

[fabulousfour]

Here is another mystery.

 

[pomme homme]

I thought that it looked like a mini Storch. The Fieseler Fi.253?

 

[fabulousfour]

It is the Fieseler Spatz (=Sparrow).

It is a pity that this neat little plane was born in the wrong time.

Over to you, Mike

 

[pomme homme]

Thank you, Robert.

Now here's something which isn't what it looks like - namely a Mauboussin M.126 or any member of the Corsaire family.

 

[lefty]

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 ?

 

[fabulousfour]

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

 

[lefty]

Thanks Robert. Not getting anywhere with Mike's Klemmy flivver - lots of machines very close....

 

[wout]

Hi fabulousfour
Thank you for the link to the Koch Mark 4. Really appreciate this!

 

[wout]

Hi pomme homme
The Bassou Sport (F-WCZD) ?
If correct, do you have additional info on her?

 

[pomme homme]

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!
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[wout]

hi pomme homme
Thank you for the very useful info on the Bassou lowwinger.

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

 

[lefty]

Nor a pilot, it seems....

 

[wout]

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.

 

[wout]

If this helps. The designer`s initials are the same as for (at least) 3 other builders from ghe same country.

 

[pomme homme]

Could it be the Léger RL.2, F-PHYY?

 

[wout]

Hi pomme homme
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).

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