The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[pomme homme]

Le Boisavia B.50 'Muscadet' de 1946, peut-être?

 

[lefty]

Off beam here, Mike. This is the delightful SABCA S.20 Libellulle OO-APU.

 

[fabulousfour]

The SABCA it is!
Hardly to believe that this sleek beauty flew less than 10 years later than the clumsy Parks from the mystery before.

Over to Mike.

 

[pomme homme]

Too much Muscadet, peut-être!

 

[lefty]

Such a shame that the Libellulle 'disparu par faits de guerre'......

This one, I'm afraid, wouldn't win any beauty contests -

 

[lefty]

East coast USA, one-off floater version, Wright motor.

 

[lefty]

OK that's enough. It is the New Standard D-28 from 1929. It's in Aerofiles but no photo, which came from Juptner.

OH please....

 

[cthornburg]

Don’t know if this has been used before. Good pix that I found but had no caption. And I hope you guys can find a better pix of it. One aircraft only made.


Chris

 

[lefty]

Chris, this is a toughie - not much to go on with the lack of a tail. Would I be correct in assuming this is a US number ?

 

[cthornburg]

Yes this one should be in aerofiles. This is the first aircraft in a string of famous aircraft ending around WWII.

Chris

 

[giruXX]

The bird looks pretty much like the Winstead Specialwhich is believed to be related to Walter Beech and Lloyd Stearman. (?)

 

[cthornburg]

No this is not the Winstead Special. It's a famous name you will recognize when the reveal. I do company pics of each aircraft which is how I came across this aircraft. As I said it didn't have a label on the pix but I used the description in Aerofiles to figure out which one it was. Hopefully when named you guys can come up with a more complete pix. One aircraft in the series I wasn't able to find a pix of. I like the give and take after finding out what it is. Which is why I did one on "Couzinet" when that one was on the forum. Also I have given the name of the aircraft already but will reveal at the 48hr mark.

Chris

 

[cthornburg]

Going to sleep so will reveal.

As I said already named it cryptically just for fun.

D. on’t know if this has been used before.
G. ood pix that I found but had no caption.
A. nd I hope you guys can find a better pix of it.
One aircraft only made.

See much of Pete, Ike, Mike the racers and DGA6-15. The pix comes from Howard album and wasn't captioned but went by the description in Aerofiles. Now "Flyabout" is the only Howard I haven't got a pix for. Hopefully you guys can come up with a better pix.

Chris

 

[giruXX]

Could it be that somebody confused Flyabout and DGA-1?

I found pictures of a two-seater with larger-span lower wing on eBay that perfectly fit to the description of the Flyabout in Aerofiles, while Chris’ pic shows a three-seater that would fit to the description of the DGA-1.

 

[fabulousfour]

In this pdf (page 2) there is a Howard biplane that looks pretty much like Chris' mystery and which is captioned as DGA-1.

 

[giruXX]

That would mean that the confusion is in aerofiles.

 

[cthornburg]

I found this pix in what was supposed to be Howard's personal photo album. Which was for sale on Ebay I think. I have another pix which resembles the pix in the article but would be the DGA-2. The descriptions in Aerofiles has one as 1 seat, 2 seat and 3 seat. This pix looks like a 1s and the one I used has 3 seats. The flyabout has 2 seats. I think the personal photo album has more validiity than this article.

Chris

 

[Moses03]

Found this in my archives. Howard Flyabout circa 1926.

 

[cthornburg]

I found a similar pix but was labeled DGA-2. Now for you engine experts if Aerofiles is correct. We need a pix of the DGA-2 which had a Hisso 150hp 1 seat mod. Standard J-1. The engines on the pix of the DGA-1 and Flyabout seem similar as both were according to Aerofiles OX-5's

Chris

 

[Moses03]

While some of you troll the depths of the Howard/DGA lineage, here is a another bipe to move things along.