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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Indeed it is - lovely flying bananas there - over to you -:very_drunk:

Of course, it's a French machine, therefore there is bound to be some confusion. On close inspection, the original appears to show the entire powerplant - engines, radiators, and four-bladed props, mounted ahead of the wings - very unusual for a pusher. On your photo I can't discern any radiators or even props at all !
 
Indeed it is - lovely flying bananas there - over to you -:very_drunk:

Of course, it's a French machine, therefore there is bound to be some confusion. On close inspection, the original appears to show the entire powerplant - engines, radiators, and four-bladed props, mounted ahead of the wings - very unusual for a pusher. On your photo I can't discern any radiators or even props at all !
Hi Lefty!
I have exactly the same original photo as you edited captioned: "Ligue Aérienne Française L.A.F. Desmon Torpilleur"...as it often happens with me (sigh, sigh) I entered the forum too late to put down my "two cents"!
Cheers
BG (Carlo)
 
Let's step away from the French inquisition...

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Now I know why this bird seems familiar to me. :icon_redface:

I've seen it before when looking for the Taft Kingfisher, my first solved mystery.

This plane appears in Aviation week from May 17, 1930 and is the Engineers Aircraft Corp. Model 1 or EAC-1 as named in the magazine..
 
Spot on Robert.:icon29: It was photographed at the same New York show as the Taft.

Have at it-
 

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Indeed, I have both ! (Depends whether you add the 'Prag' to the Fertigungsgemeinschaft...) Yet another scaled-down floater, which like most of the others, didn't achieve much.

This didn't float, to the best of my knowledge. Must have been quite bracing to fly..(and keep that Red Baron silk scarf well tucked in !)
 

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