The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[fabulousfour]

So neither a plane from the Nieuport stable nor an engine from Hispano-Suiza. I think I need new glasses.

And what kind of "sail-plane" do we have here?

Sorry for the grainy picture...

 

[lefty]

A Savoia S.16 ? Maybe Pinedo & Campanelli's 'boat' ???

 

[fabulousfour]

Correct on all accounts!

The S.16 that flew to Australia with an auxiliary sail. It would have been used in case of an emergency water landing.

Over to you, Mike.

 

[Baragouin]

Correct on all accounts!

The S.16 that flew to Australia with an auxiliary sail. It would have been used in case of an emergency water landing.

Over to you, Mike.

Hi Robert!
Perhaps not everyone knows that the S16Ter was called "Gennariello" in honour of the patron Saint of Naples San Gennaro and that the words "Funicolì Funicolà (the famous neapolitan song) were printed on the bow...
Cheers
Carlo

 

[lefty]

Thanks Robert - and Carlo for his lovely piece of Italian nostalgia......

Now here's something quite different and much more brutal -

 

[Moses03]

That is the sleek Wildfire Unlimited Racer. Not sure of it's status now.

http://www.wildfireairracing.com/history.htm

 

[lefty]

That's the one - had difficulty researching this one as it had a few changes of identity. Most commonly known as the Statler Wildfire (but not in Aerofiles!)

Over to Texas -

 

[Moses03]

Thanks, it had a composite look to it so that led me to the Reno racing scene.


Now here is a curious one...

 

[lefty]

Everything except the centre strutting looks like the Bakeng Deuce...

 

[Moses03]

Not the Deuce Mike. This one had a very odd lifespan which actually started around 1930! (Note the anachronistic rudder design).

 

[fabulousfour]

The design seems to have been mixed a little.

 

[Moses03]

Thought Walter might have chapter and verse on this one.

Robert is right in that it is a mixed build. It started out as the MacManaman 1930 Parasol. It was then stored until 1948 and rebuilt as the DeLong Little Mixer (N631).

Open board then.

 

[cthornburg]

Something from Eastern Europe figured you could already tell that from background

Chris

 

[wout]

Hi Kevin
There is also an entry of N631 in aerofiles.com as the Lee Inman Flying School L-1P-S.

 

[wout]

Hi Chris
Your Eastern European girl is the 1950 SG-2 Kékmadár all-wood 2-seater designed by Béla Samu and Pál Gönczy.
HA-BKF is now in the Közlekédesi Museum in Budapest.

 

[cthornburg]

Thanks Walter I found the pix but couldn't find much about it.

Over to you

Chris

 

[Baragouin]

Thanks Walter I found the pix but couldn't find much about it.

Over to you

Chris

By the way did you know that "Kekmadar" means in hungarian "Blue Jay Bird"?
Cheers
Carlo

 

[wout]

A small flying wing this time.

 

[Baragouin]

A small flying wing this time.

Hi Walter
I think it is a US home built....It looks a bit like the KhAI17(of which I have a very poor pic) but I'm pretty sure it isn't!
Cheers
Carlo (BG)

 

[giruXX]

I think that's the Sebring Wee Wing