The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[lefty]

You got the Oriental angular floater, Walter -

 

[wout]

Thank you Mike
I must admit that I could not find proof that this 6-seater was actually flight tested. But than again, no proof either that it was not!
Sad reasons (death of designer), bankruptcy etc. may be reason not much is on the net.

 

[wout]

The designer was American, but afaik the photo was taken in another country.
The shape of the tail and canopy/cockpit of the aircraft in the back should give some clues.

 

[Josh Patterson]

Skypirate, arr matey! For Rob.

Boy, with a name like Skypirate you'd be led to believe that the XTB2D-1 was a collaboration between Douglas and Vought! I'd probably pay money for one of those in FSX!

 

[wout]

The 6-seater is the Pulsar Aircraft Super Cruiser 600, built when the company was located in El Salavador. Design of Rich Trickel and derived from his TR-4 Cruiser (Tri-R Technologies) 4-seater. This was later marketed by Pulsar Aircraft.
His first design was the TR-1 KIS (Keep It Simple) and the Volato 400 was a design he developed while working in Brazil.

OH please

 

[cthornburg]

A little grainy but unique.

Chris

 

[fabulousfour]

This plane is not quite a sailplane but nonetheless also hasn't received a proper engine

It is the Haessler-Villinger HV.1 Mufli powered by muscles and flew about 700 m in its longest flight as early as 1937!

 

[cthornburg]

That's the one over to you

Chris

 

[fabulousfour]

Something bigger and faster.

 

[fabulousfour]

Well known manufacturer that is still building aircraft today, though only in slow rate.

He has quite a reputation for his vehicles built for the road!

 

[giruXX]

[h=1]Piaggio P.3[/h]

 

[fabulousfour]

You got it, Uli, it is the Piaggio.

And the vehicle I referred to of course is the Vespa.

 

[giruXX]

Thank you Robert. My next is a somewhat smaller and more recent "insect".

 

[fabulousfour]

I know that one from the Flugzeugforum, a legendary mystery long time ago.

I'll leave the solution to somebody else.

 

[giruXX]

The designer of this craft also built an ornithopter.

 

[lefty]

I like your clues, Uli - it gives the Fife Detective Agency a chance to get the little grey cells working...

In this case, I've come up with a gentleman called Adalbert Schmid (Bert Smith) who flapped around for a while - this is his earlier Mosquito model.

 

[giruXX]

well the next clue would have been to congratulate fabulousfour to his „break“ (German: Pause)
It’s the Pause Mücke from 1939 designed by the mentioned Adalbert Schmid.

Over to Scottland

 

[lefty]

Thank you.

At risk of incurring the wrath of Moses (!), here's a real grainy wee horror........as you can see, a competitive machine, although tragically unsuccessful.....

 

[pomme homme]

The Peyret Monoplane of 1923 that was registered for the Lympne Light Aeroplane Trials of that year. I think that this is the Douglas engined example (which wikipedia says didn't actually attend) rather than the Sergant engined example in which Alexis Maneyrol lost his life.

 

[lefty]

According to my source, Mike, (Douglas Light Aero Engines, by Brian Thorby) this is the Douglas-engined Peyret, and it was this one, rather than the two Sergant-engined models, which suffered a catastrophic structural failure.

They were brave pilots in those days.....

Over to you, sir