The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[fabulousfour]

That is a Boeing 747 from El Al on Operation Solomon evacuating Ethopian Jews in May 1991.
The record was 1122 passengers on board with 5 more at the end of the flight.

 

[dan_pub]

100% right on all counts. Over to you, Fab!

 

[fabulousfour]

Thanks, Dan!
Operation Solomon is still in my memory and I can remember how deeply impressed I was about that.

Here is something older with less capacity.

 

[srgalahad]

She is the MacGregor MG-65 (CF-RCZ c/n MG-1) by Wilmer MacGregor, completed in 1961.
Now in the Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre.

It was also there on Sept 7th, 2017. I know, because I was there. Alas, but the ground here is too frozen for me to dig a deep hole to drop into...

 

[fabulousfour]

Back to my mystery again

The floater is from a well known European company and is not a one-off.

 

[Baragouin]

Back to my mystery again

The floater is from a well known European company and is not a one-off.

Hello there!
This is most definitely a Piaggio P6 of 1927...
Cheers
Carlo (BG)

 

[fabulousfour]

And that is definitely the correct answer!

Over to you, Carlo

 

[Baragouin]

And that is definitely the correct answer!

Over to you, Carlo

Thanks Robert!
Unfortunately I cannot submit a new mystery till tomorrow early afternoon therefore if somebody would like to step in he is more than welcome....
Cheers
Carlo (BG)

 

[wout]

A quick one, till Carlo digs up a fresh one
Not a homebuilt, but used as testbed for a small jet-engine (the shiny thing on the wing below the real engine)

 

[Baragouin]

Sorry Walter I really don't mean to intrude but I just found a rather interesting pic that I'm submitting. Where is this pugnacious machinegunner sitting?
Cheers
Carlo (BG)
https://imgur.com/a/1lUBJ

Of course priority must be given to Walter's mystery

 

[lefty]

I think Carlo's gunner is in the dorsal turret of an Ilyushin Il-4 (DB-3F). One or two giveaways here !

If correct, please ignore and continue with Walter's pusher with wing-mounted hair dryer.

 

[Baragouin]

I think Carlo's gunner is in the dorsal turret of an Ilyushin Il-4 (DB-3F). One or two giveaways here !

If correct, please ignore and continue with Walter's pusher with wing-mounted hair dryer.

That's right Mike a russian gunner in his MB3 dorsal turret of a Ilyushin Il-4T looking at his 12.7mm UBT machine gun....
Cheers
Carlo

 

[wout]

To remove all obstacles for the solution :
The depicted aircraft had a Rotax piston engine.
A second example mainly differed in having a lowered (cruciform) tailplane and a small turbine engine.

 

[wout]

The aircraft is the VUT-001 (OK-VUT, one of of least two aircraft (the other one OK-DLT) aircraft developed by the Institute of Aerospace Engineering (IAE) of the Brno University of Technology
om the Czech Republic.
OK-VUT had a Rotax 912A2 engine and was used to test the small TMJ100 jet engine of PBS Velká Bíteš (Czech Republic). OK-DLT with the cruciform tail had a TP100 propturbine, also by PBS.

Lefty`s turn? Must be a joy to fire from an Ilyushin instead of firing from the hip

 

[lefty]

I see the designer was a Mr Pistek.

Any comment from me would be unwise................

 

[Moses03]

Well, I think it is open house so let's press on.

 

[Moses03]

61 of these scout/training biplanes were built. From a well known outfit.

 

[giruXX]

+ W-struts: Fiat G.8

 

[Moses03]

Fiat it is!

Over to western Europe-

 

[giruXX]

I hope this biplane didn't appear here before