The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[cthornburg]

That's it.

Over to you.

Chris

 

[giruXX]

I’ve always been seeking for a new floater for lefty. I hope this one is OK:

 

[lefty]

giruxx, I am pretty useless with anything built after about 1975 - like music, anything meaningful happened before that date !

However, a bit of research, together with a helpful website, has revealed the Seahawk amphibian (HA-XBW ?) bulit by somebody called Mark who went bankrupt. Should have stuck to plastic aeroplanes of the Revell variety....

 

[giruXX]

Hi lefty,
Sorry, to challenge you (I didn’t imagine your constraint - I will do better next time)
For the moment I don't agree with your guess. According to my files a Seamax looks distinguishably different compared to this one.

I think the search must go on.

 

[giruXX]

Sorry I mixed up Seahawk and Seamax

Lefty has it, indeed! That thing changed names and owners several times.

I was looking for Schempp-Hirth Seagle (OK-MAS)

Earlier names are for instance Wuestenflug WQS Seagle / Seahawk, Seagle http://www.vanessaair.cz/en/ref_seahawk-en.html
Sorry for my confusion. The glass goes to lefty

 

[lefty]

You're confused ?? Blimey....

anyway, thanks, giruxx, needed a beer today - after return from vacation, the grass was knee-high !

Incidentally, Mike, re our previous conversation, I scanned a lovely pic of a Solent and a Sunderland (I think) in Funchal Bay - those were the days..........

 

[lefty]

But here's a floater of a different sort for you to pounce upon.....

 

[pomme homme]

Incidentally, Mike, re our previous conversation, I scanned a lovely pic of a Solent and a Sunderland (I think) in Funchal Bay - those were the days..........

Hamlet, Act I, Scene II, Line 188.

 

[Baragouin]

Hamlet, Act I, Scene II, Line 188.

After weeks of fasting I would say this is a:
Curtiss Falcon (Model 37F-O-1G) a model produced for Colombia...
Cheers
BG

PS I totally share Lefty's views (#13463) but would put the date back to 1955....

 

[lefty]

BG is correct, of course, with the Export Falcon.... Over to Tuscany, which must be even sunnier (and hotter) than it was in Madeira !

 

[Baragouin]

BG is correct, of course, with the Export Falcon.... Over to Tuscany, which must be even sunnier (and hotter) than it was in Madeira !

Being a floater this is especially meant for Lefty.....
Cheers

BG
(BTW is the landing in Funchal still a hair rising experience?)

 

[lefty]

Ha ! An Italo-Norwegian red herring ! A Breda Ba.28, methinks ?

And yes, coming into Funchal in a crosswind is not for the faint-hearted !

 

[Baragouin]

Ha ! An Italo-Norwegian red herring ! A Breda Ba.28, methinks ?

And yes, coming into Funchal in a crosswind is not for the faint-hearted !

Hi Lefty!

Yes I tried a red herring but you didn't fall for it...it is a Breda Ba28 a few of which were supplied to the norwegians who made little use of them because the aircrafts after a few months were rotting away being the humidity rate in Norway much higher than in Italy (...what did you expect the norwegians paid for their crafts with cod fish!....)
BTW my worst experience was landing in heavy cross winds (yes the Tasmans are famous for that) at the Auckland airport in winter (August it was)..
Cheers
BG

 

[cthornburg]

I keep hearing about Funchal. This is the type of airports I went into for almost 25 years at max landing weight 164,000. Also went into Teguci which is one of the top ten dangerous airports according to some. The picture is of Pohnpei and I wasn't the Capt or onboard that trip. Also another mainland company came out to the islands to take our business away. They landed at Pohnpei 1 foot too short and tore the gear off a 727.

Chris

 

[lefty]

Here'a photo I took last weekend - you see the problem is the approach - my shaky track is not that much exaggerated - and crosswinds hurtling down the mountainside ! Have had a few wobblies there......

 

[lefty]

Anyway, just to show that I'm not totally obsessed with ancient floaters - here's a wee chopper that looks as though it came out of a 50's comic.......

 

[giruXX]

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[pomme homme]

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[lefty]

giruXX on the ball again !

Think I would teach myself to fly in something a little more forgiving..

 

[giruXX]

... it looks like an amphibian car from the fifties

The next one is an elegant exotic that might not have appeared here before?