The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[fabulousfour]

Perfect, the one and only RWD 7.

Interesting that there are quite a few aircraft with a similar look from different countries.

Over to you, Kevin!

 

[Baragouin]

RWD-7 Robert?

http://rwd-dwl.net/samoloty/rwd_7/index.htm

Blimey too late.....just watching the splendid match Roma-Barcelona and the miracle happened: 3 to nil therefore Roma is now in the semifinals!
Sorry for the digression...
Carlo

 

[Moses03]

Thanks Robert.

This one is a bit obscure but I will say it has a Maybach engine...

 

[lefty]

I was thinking something Czech but the background says USA ?

 

[fabulousfour]

An airship engine in a relative small biplane. Must have been rather nose heavy...

 

[Moses03]

Not Czech or American Mike, and Robert seems to have found it.

Another photo might help out-

 

[lefty]

Thanks, got it now...

 

[Baragouin]

Thanks, got it now...

The engine must have been a Maybach MB-IV. I read somewhere that a Kawanishi Aircraft had such an engine...however I can't proceed further than that....
Cheers
Carlo

PS maybe Kawanishi K3?

 

[Moses03]

Hey Carlo, not a Kawanishi but from a lesser known outfit. It was a 320hp Maybach, flown in 1921.

 

[giruXX]

The Itoh Emi 24 Akita-go

 

[Moses03]

Thank you Uli. Over to western Europe-

 

[giruXX]

let's try this (sorry for the bad picture!)

 

[pomme homme]

Is that the H.Cukurs C-3 YL-AAB? It seems to have existed in single and two seat formats.

Edit: on reflection, I think I'm wrong as the aeroplane illustrated above appears to have a cantilever wing (unlike the C-3) - but the 'humpback' is very Cukurs' like.

 

[fabulousfour]

If I'm not wrong this plane should be some years older than the Cukurs.

 

[giruXX]

Robert is right and the plane is from a stable that became (and still is) really world-famous. There is a good clue in this photo but another (more obvious) one is absent.

 

[cthornburg]

It looks like a modified Junkers CL.I/J10

Chris

 

[giruXX]

It IS a modified J.10: D-77 which conveyed the lord mayor of Dessau to Weimar on June 17, 1919.

Over to you, Chris

 

[cthornburg]

Search doesn't show up on thread. Could be a stumper. From a country not normally seen.

Chris

 

[wout]

Hi Chris
I think she maye have originated in Syria before WW2 and said to be a project of Air France personel stationed in Damascus during the 1930s. First flight 1 November 1935?
She may never have been officially registered although I have seen a pic sporting the (fake?) S-YRIE registration.
Further understand that after WW2 she may have gone to Lebanon as the DS-1 Papillon with 1947 registration LR-AAP. Damaged same year.
40hp Salmson engine, wingspan 10,00 meter, length 6,50 meter

 

[Baragouin]

Hi Chris
I think she maye have originated in Syria before WW2 and said to be a project of Air France personel stationed in Damascus during the 1930s. First flight 1 November 1935?
She may never have been officially registered although I have seen a pic sporting the (fake?) S-YRIE registration.
Further understand that after WW2 she may have gone to Lebanon as the DS-1 Papillon with 1947 registration LR-AAP. Damaged same year.
40hp Salmson engine, wingspan 10,00 meter, length 6,50 meter

Good morning everybody!
Only this morning I saw Chthornburg pic.
To confirm Wout's comments I also have her identified as D.S. N1 (ex SBPCC) "Papillon" Lebanon 40HP Salmson engine LR-AAP. If somebody is interested I also have two additional pics (grainy):
Cheers
Carlo