The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[pomme homme]

A long shot. The DH.75B Hawk Moth?

 

[Moses03]

De Havilland argh, never made the connection! Guess the tail fooled me from that angle.

Going to do the honorable thing and go walk 10 paces off a 9 pace plank into the abyss (where I will no doubt be surrounded by a multitude of post-war single engine low wing monoplanes).

 

[pomme homme]

As an online Samaritan, who shudders at prospect of a proud and intelligent man being driven to walking the plank in these circumstances, would it help, Kevin, if I deleted my earlier post and turned the clock back a couple of hours?

 

[lefty]

Yippee! I had a feeling this one might spark off some Aerofiles trawling - looks deceptively 'colonial'.....

Anyway, Mike has the baton - we await with trepidation....

 

[pomme homme]

Sorry, but you'll have to trepidate until the morning. It's rugby, pro tem!

 

[lefty]

Well you'll be happy now that Les Bleus have finally managed to grind out a win !

 

[pomme homme]

Yes, at least it avoids la cuillère en bois. Now here's a tubby wee fellow - the aeroplane, that is!

 

[giruXX]

That is the Léger Pataplume, Monsieur

 

[pomme homme]

At the risk of being a pedant (moi?), mein herr, might I ask you to say which one? They are significantly different.

 

[pomme homme]

Well, gentlemen, we can't let the grass grow under our feet. It's the Pataplume 1 because, as you'll see from the attached photograph, the Pataplume 2 is a very different beast. Over to Allemagne!

 

[giruXX]

Sorry I could not answer. I used the nice weather to cut my apple trees.

How do you like this? No, it's not a Pataplume 0.5 (1 strut instead of 2).

 

[pomme homme]

Bien sûr, c'est une souricette. I love them. The last one that flew alongside me was going backward as I was going forward! God bless you M Barry!

Oh, I think that, this evening, I'm a touch more content than even I was yesterday evening. It's the auld alliance. Allez les autres Bleus!

 

[giruXX]

Barry MB-2 Souricette

yes indeed enjoy a pint

 

[lefty]

Methinks somebody's unearthed a cache of French Flatpack Flivvers !

 

[pomme homme]

Shall we, then, stick with 'flivvers' - although this one certainly isn't a 'flat packer' as it predated that concept by many years.

 

[fabulousfour]

According to my library this should be the München Grane (maybe a typo there?) with a Douglas engine.

Didn't find a single hint about this wee bird on the net.

 

[pomme homme]

That's what I have too (including the same possible typo!), apparently constructed in 1928 by Tiling und Weiβ at Fliegervereinigung e.V., München with a 500cc Douglas S1 twin cylinder engine. And not a great deal more than that seems to be known about it! Over to Germany again.

 

[fabulousfour]

Thanks, Mike.
Though native speaker, I don't know the meaning of "Grane", so my guess would be that the original name of that bird was different and the transcription was faulty. I think we'll never know.

Next one is a bit bigger.

 

[lefty]

That, Robert, is the Breguet 413. Described as a fighter - must have been highly manoeuvreable !

Does anyone know what the wee aerofoil thingy is above the upper wing ?

 

[fabulousfour]

Maybe the pilot's seat for a better view at the enemy?

It is the Breguet 413!

Enjoy your pint, Mike.