The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.
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pomme homme
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Léger JCL-01 (I wonder if it is related?)
Edit: yes it was, the designer following in his father's footsteps!
Edit: yes it was, the designer following in his father's footsteps!
hi pomme homme
Very absolutely and without doubt, the Léger JCL-01 (F-PVQX) by Jean-Claude, son of René of RL-1, RL-2 and RL-3 fame.
First flown 3 May 1975 and 65hp Walter Mikron II engine.
Wonder why he deviated from the family tradition as she is not a parasol wing type.
Your turn, please
Very absolutely and without doubt, the Léger JCL-01 (F-PVQX) by Jean-Claude, son of René of RL-1, RL-2 and RL-3 fame.
First flown 3 May 1975 and 65hp Walter Mikron II engine.
Wonder why he deviated from the family tradition as she is not a parasol wing type.
Your turn, please
pomme homme
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Thank you, Walter.
Perhaps, unlike his dad, he didn't like al fresco flying. Take away the enclosed cockpit structure and, I suspect, you'd have a parasol wing monoplane.
Now here's a real parasol wing monoplan, although it's rather deshabillé.
Perhaps, unlike his dad, he didn't like al fresco flying. Take away the enclosed cockpit structure and, I suspect, you'd have a parasol wing monoplane.
Now here's a real parasol wing monoplan, although it's rather deshabillé.
pomme homme
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I'll give this clue quietly in an endeavour to avoid waking lefty!
You'd be right to think that this little aeroplane is obscure. A 'one-off', it was designed and built, in his garage in a small town north of Paris, by a former employee of Maurice Finat. Powered by a 30hp Mengin motor, it dates from the late 1940s. I'm afraid that I don't know much of its career or what became of it.
You'd be right to think that this little aeroplane is obscure. A 'one-off', it was designed and built, in his garage in a small town north of Paris, by a former employee of Maurice Finat. Powered by a 30hp Mengin motor, it dates from the late 1940s. I'm afraid that I don't know much of its career or what became of it.
pomme homme
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Spot on, Walter. It is the Geffroy Monoplane of 1948. Do you have any information about its flying career and/or fate?
Anyhow, it's now over to you - but you might want to avoid posting another French light aeroplane and the risk of incurring someone's wrath!
Anyhow, it's now over to you - but you might want to avoid posting another French light aeroplane and the risk of incurring someone's wrath!
pomme homme
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Alaparma AM.6 of 1957?
pomme homme
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Looking at the timings, Kevin, it appears that were thinking along the same lines at the same time! This photograph appears in volume 4 of Gente dell'aria at p.238 with the caption:
'L'AM.6 monotrave, construito nel 1957, qui ripreso sul campa di Parma, sullo sfondo uno Stinson L.5 da traino'.
'L'AM.6 monotrave, construito nel 1957, qui ripreso sul campa di Parma, sullo sfondo uno Stinson L.5 da traino'.
Hi gentlemen
Good investigations. Indeed an Alaparma (Mantelli) AM-6 derivative with V-tail rather than the usual twin tail booms.
Flipped a coin and Kevin was the lucky (?) one.
All I now need from you gentlemen is a full technical history of both the twin tail boom AM-6 (often reported as the first post-war Mantelli type) and this V-tail one-off which appeared around 1957, or where to find further info.
Good investigations. Indeed an Alaparma (Mantelli) AM-6 derivative with V-tail rather than the usual twin tail booms.
Flipped a coin and Kevin was the lucky (?) one.
All I now need from you gentlemen is a full technical history of both the twin tail boom AM-6 (often reported as the first post-war Mantelli type) and this V-tail one-off which appeared around 1957, or where to find further info.
pomme homme
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An Etrich Taube of some sort, but I've not yet found a version with a three blade propellor.
fabulousfour
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That's probably the Gull Wing of Lewis G. Young from about 1916.
for Robert.
