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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

It's got to be a Ted Smith designed Aerostar, & probably a 600 from the grainy picture, but was it made by the original Aerostar, American Cement Co, Butler/Mooney or Piper?
Keith
 
Rgr on the myriad of designs Keith. Thanks for the link.


For the next mystery, something much newer.

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While you are all pondering this canard, I wonder if anyone can shed some light on another mystery.

I have a volume called 'Aircraft of the World' by Talbot Booth, from around 1940. It consists of some pretty ropey 3-views of a wide variety of aircraft, some of which are obviously projects which never made it , such as the Air-Wibault. (I also found the Edwards MBM-1 there)

One such is this, the 'Lobil Monoplane', a supposed fighter from the USA. I can find no other reference to this whatsoever. Anyone ???
 

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When you do a Google search for "Lobil aircraft" there are two hits for old issues of the "Los Angeles Times", however, you can see only a preview unless you have a subscription.

Number 1

Number 2

But you can read the OCR-text below the pictures.


First text (some corrections made by me):

Another aircraft factory, according to a statement made yesterday by Josef S. J. Hlobil, president of the Lobil Aircraft Corporatin. Hlobil, an aircraft engineer formerly with Consolidated Aircraft Corporation In San Diego, said his company will specialize in military planes. Actual construction of the first experimental plane is expected to begin within the next few weeks, with production scheduled to start in six months


Second text:

The Lobil Aircraft Corporation announced it will build plant here and specialize on military planes. President is Josef . 3. Hlobil. formerly an engineer with Consolidated Aircraft of San Diego, which is busy with navy bombers orders.

According to this, the founder of Lobil Aircraft Company/Coorporation was Josef Hlobil whose name seems to have been simplified to Lobil. Hlobil seems to be a common Czech name.

When you Google for "Josef S. J. Hlobil" you can find several aircraft related patents
However, nothing about the plane you are looking for.

By the way, your mystery plane is the one and only Piper PAT-1 Pugmobile :wavey:
 
Hi Mike :encouragement:
Your canard is a Piper! The PAT-1. Not by the Piper company, but designed by Howard Piper (son of William T.) and George Mead and built by PAT which stood for Piper Advanced Technology, Inc. not related to the other Piper company
N15TP was sadly lost in a fatal crash in November 1981. She was nicknamed Pugmoile.
 
fabulousfour beat me by 1 minuites, 60 seconds, one zip of my beer.
Must obviously improve on my typing speed :banghead:
 
Tough luck, Walter ! FF, thank you for that - obviously, I Googled Lobil aircraft too, but came up with nothing. Strange.

Over to you for the Pugmobile.....:very_drunk:
 
Time for a clue.

The shown aircraft was originally built only as a "back-up" as another type from a well known designer was the preferred choice.
However, the latter never materialized and so this aircraft went into mass production.
 
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