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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Robert, I'm staying out of this - I have a very hectic couple of days being Masterchef, and will be preoccupied with culinary matters (no turkey this Christmas - warm scallop + black pudding + bacon salad, followed by Beef Wellington...)

Your mystery was ID'd back in 2015 by one of our lapsed regulars, but most of the usual suspects were in attendance.

Have a lovely Christmas when it comes ! And that applies to all of you ! :very_drunk: :santahat:
 
Excuse accepted, Mike. :santahat:
A Merry Christmas to you and your friends.

To accelerate things a bit: First flight was 1931 with an ACE engine, later on the craft had a Jacobs.
And of course listes in aerofiles but no pic.
 
lefty said:
Robert, I'm staying out of this - I have a very hectic couple of days being Masterchef, and will be preoccupied with culinary matters (no turkey this Christmas - warm scallop + black pudding + bacon salad, followed by Beef Wellington...)

Your mystery was ID'd back in 2015 by one of our lapsed regulars, but most of the usual suspects were in attendance.

Have a lovely Christmas when it comes ! And that applies to all of you ! :very_drunk: :santahat:
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So it's all round to Mike's house tomorrow ..... !

Joyeux Noël à tous
 
I don't know when I'm back at my PC so I'd like to solve the mystery.

It is the Winford WRK Gyroplane posted already here by lefty.

Open house please.


A Merry Christmas to all of you and may at least some of your wishes come true. :santahat:
 
A Merry Christmas to you all and wishing you double of what you wish for me:encouragement::encouragement:

A slim lady with an unusual landing gear arrangement.
 

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If not for the fact that it wasn't built, I'd hazard a guess at the Pottier P.30 Pétrel. Walter's offering looks as if it is that from which the tricycle undercarriage version of the Pottier P.130 should have evolved.
 
Sorry, no connection with any of Jean Pottier`s designs.
If it helps, that is NOT a DC-3/C-47 in the background.
 
I think this is the "M-3" (the only designation I could find) converted from a KAI-12 sailplane.

Unfortunately my knowledge of the Russian language is close to nil.
 
hi fabulousfour:very_drunk:
The M-3 it is. M standing for a Mr. Masterov. I have bits and pieces scattered on my harddisk and trying to make a good soup from them.

Your turn, sir!
 
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I have bits and pieces scattered on my harddisk and trying to make a good soup from them.
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I didn't realise times were so hard in Holland, Walter. I'll send a wee food parcel from Scotland - some haggis, perhaps ? and some left-over Christmas pudding ? :santahat:
 
Some pictures of the "M-3" can be found here and here, however the text without Google translator is completely cryptic to me. :very_drunk:
Perhaps there are some photos included that are new to you, Walter.

This one shouldn't be too difficult.
 

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Hi fabulousfour:encouragement:
Thank you for the links. Some of the pictures are indeed new to me. I have some doubts whether the yellow one is the M-3. View the different gear etc. It may be the M-5.
The one with 07 on the fuselage side could also be a (slightly) different design. I am not yet in the full detective mode, but the soup is hanging over the fire.

Hi Mike:encouragement:
Thank you for your warm thoughts. Just wat I needed. Gladly the situation is not hopeless overhere. Will see how it develops with the new governmwent and now that we missed Moscow.
 
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