The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[Baragouin]

http://imgur.com/a/AnS44
Thanks very much Fab!
Here goes my next mystery which is going to be a design just for a change.....this craft appeared in northern Europe in the early twenties....
Cheers
Carlo (BG)

 

[giruXX]

no taker for the Nordiska Phoenix biplane??

 

[giruXX]

My offer isn’t an amphibian in the aeronautical sense, but it might go as a tadpole.

 

[lefty]

That one, Gx, is the Aerauto PL5.C

Still think it odd that that little Swede was so obscure that nobody could be bothered to take a photograph of it......

 

[wout]

Hi giruXX
Never seen that picture before. Maybe interesting to see how the u/c of the PL-5C was used as airplane and as "auto". It could be as moved forward/back as required!
See attached photo and sketch.

 

[giruXX]

@lefty: Did the word „tadpole“ provoke you as our floater expert?

@wout: thank you!

@Nordiska Phoenix: Taking pictures was not as easy as it is nowadays.

Flight’s reporter wrote in 1923:

"As far as actual machines are concerned, Sweden's contribution to the Show was completed by a small side-by-side school biplane exhibited on a separate stand. This machine was stepmotherly treated in the matter of attendance, as we could never find anyone in charge of the stand, and no information was available beyond a brief announcement tacked to the fuselage, which stated that the machine was built by Nordiska Phoenix of Gothenburg." https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1923/1923 - 0451.html?search=Nordiska Phoenix

 

[lefty]

Stepmotherly treated....hmm.

And now, as they used to say, for something completely different - something rotary, and nice and easy - an aggie-chopper !

 

[Baragouin]

Awfully sorry for the delay guys but there was a 24hr blackout concerning internet connection affecting the Whole Arezzo area . BTW Nordiska Phönix Biplane is correct!
Cheers
Carlo (BG)

 

[wout]

Hi Mike
Maybe a Kaman K225 "somewhere in Turkey"?

 

[lefty]

Haven't a clue where it is, but it's the K225 all right, Walter..

 

[wout]

Hi Mike
Reason for mentioning Turkey is that, apparently, a couple of K-225s were evaluated there as ag-copter.
Next challenge:
Sorry no picture of the complete plane. Would give away too much
Bonus beer for the proper designation and the (nick)name

 

[Moses03]

This must be the Rhein Flugzeugbau RW-3M "Whisperfan" (D-EKUM).

http://www.der-wankelmotor.de/image/Flugzeuge/dRW_3.jpg

 

[wout]

Hi Kevin
Correct in all aspects.
The bonus beer is on its way. With the normal pace/tred of the horses, the cart should arrive in the Dallas area by around 2020. Expect some delays at the Russian/US border, depending on who are Presidents at that time.

 

[Moses03]

While we wait for the beer cart...

 

[lefty]

Can't get anywhere - looks like an aerobatic machine, presumably US ?

 

[Moses03]

You are getting somewhere Mike! This was a mutt, created from bits of Waco, Taylorcraft and Piper.

 

[Baragouin]

Not surprising but I'm not getting anywhere either...at first I thought it was one of those small aerobatic crafts from CZ....
Cheers
Carlo (BG)

 

[wout]

Hi Kevin
For what it is worth, I would vote for the the Kozlowski Short T (N67N) . It used Taylorcraft and Piper (and maybe Waco) parts

 

[Moses03]

Correct on the Koslowski! It was a real bear to fly apparently.

 

[wout]

Thanks Kevin
Sometimes a gamble pays of. Your hint on the Taylorcraft, Piper etc. helped and the wing strut arrangement looked similar when compared to the only photo (attached) I had of her. Seems the tail is bigger though , but this may have to do with the angle of the pics.

May I request Open House please. Will be occupied with less important things today.

another photo: