The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[pomme homme]

And in the meantime, un avion déshabillé - which shouldn't tax you lot for long!

 

[fabulousfour]

I'd rather guess that's an E-5.

There is quite a distance between wing and top of the fuselage.

 

[Moses03]

Here is a photo of the E-5 in the same location more or less with the Dewoitine in the background.

 

[pomme homme]

What's the aerodrome?

 

[Moses03]

What's the aerodrome?

Dunno Mike. Thought you might have that info.


BTW- I know the designer of your skeletal tricycle gear biplane but not the designation. Will see if someone else has the goods as I don't know enough about it.

 

[fabulousfour]

I guess Jacques' avion had the same designation/name as the successor with conventional gear...

 

[pomme homme]

Curiously he had the same surname as my neighbour.

 

[pomme homme]

Come on, gentlemen. At least two of you know what it is but apparently are being coy. Please reveal or I'll do so and throw the door open.

 

[Dev One]

For me its like trying to identify Richard III......from his skeleton.
Keith

 

[pomme homme]

Skeletal or not, Keith, those wings must give it away!

 

[Moses03]

Well, I have it as a Jacques Gerin design and that is about it. Looks like an offshoot of his 1936 oddball Varivol aeroplane? Maybe the first go at it.

(Not sure what the French text is describing).

 

[pomme homme]

The cigar's yours, Kevin. It is the original Gérin Varivol in the course of construction. These photographs appeared in Les Ailes of 2 November 1933. I'm also of the opinion that this aeroplane 'evolved' in the course of construction. The 1933 photograph suggests that its construction was then well advanced but it didn't make its first flight until March 1936 - considerably more than two years later - and, even allowing for the fact that the posted images show it naked, later photographs of it, when fully clothed, suggest significant differences by the end of its construction. Anyhow, over to you, sir.

 

[Moses03]

Thanks Mike. Robert obviously was familiar with Jaques Gerin as well so a pint for him.


Moving on with something newer. A rather pleasant looking touring monoplane.

 

[wout]

hi Kevin
An IPT-O Bichino from Brasil?

 

[Moses03]

From the deep south! for Walter.

 

[wout]

This biplane later had a different engine. She is now in a museum and not that old.

 

[giruXX]

Wallis Red Wing Blackbird (re-post)

 

[wout]

Hi giruXX. Sport on
Here is a pic (Tom Tissier) with the Continental W670 radial. Original engine was a modified Ford V8.
Your turn, sir

 

[giruXX]

I hope this one didn’t appear here before

 

[giruXX]

it's a lightplane from the baltic sea