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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

We have the high-wing loaded Dayton-Wright RB-1 from 1920.

Since Lefty is off at the rodeo, will press on with a very curious design.

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Thank you, Kevin. As I'm going to be occupied all day and haven't got a next challenge readily to hand, rather than delay matters I think it preferable to call 'open house'. So over to someone else who is better prepared than me!
 
Thank you, giruXX. As I don't think that I can justify declaring 'open house' twice in a day, I'll try to find and post something new in the course of this evening.
 
I have this one in my "for further review" archive. In the attached it is referred to as the Beslin B-3, but like Lefty, not sure of the propulsion if any or the year for that matter.

Afraid I cannot decipher Yugoslav text!
 

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I believe it to be Serbian. But I have to say that I was going to ask you the question that you've posed to me, namely did it have some form of propulsion and, if so, what was it? However it looks as if Mike has resolved that issue. But as Kevin had the same make and model as I do, it looks as if we're going over to Texas for the next challenge. How does it go - yippie yi ooh, yippie yi yay? Oh, Mike will know as we went to the Wild West party on Saturday!
 
Lived most of my life in Texas but never really assimilated into the "cowboy" culture.

Anyhoo, here is a speedy looking parasol to consider.

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Here it is again being tested by a noted woman pilot of the time. Also note a bird has been added to the fin along with some minor modifications...

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Hmm, 'minor', eh? the wing's about a foot higher, and it appears to have become a 2-seater (at least) !

Getting nowhere yet.......
 
Engine was changed as well as there were at least three built and all seemed to be a little different.

The woman aviator set some distance and altitude records in the later and last design from this company which folded up by 1930.
 
is it linked to the Bone Golden Eagle ?

Here is a suspicious reference:

"Evelyn Trout’s airplane, the prototype of the Bone Golden Eagle, serial number C-801, was designed by R.O. Bone and Mark Mitchell Campbell. It was a single-place, single-engine strut-braced high-wing monoplane (“parasol”) with fixed landing gear."
 
It is the Golden Eagle. Stout for gX!:guinness:

Aerofiles has it as the C-5 but have not seen that designation anywhere else. Have attached some further reference material if anyone is interested in the story.
 

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