The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[wout]

Hi Chris
Of course you are wright. I was much too in a hurry to come up with an answer. Your picture shows the CSS-11 no.1 with the so-called intermediate tail.
Attached is a picture of the CSS-10A taken from the same angle. That tricked me into the wrong answer.

I propose Open Board

 

[giruXX]

let's try this:

 

[fabulousfour]

Is that a Nemesis NXT, Uli?

The rudder looks different somehow.

 

[giruXX]

It is! I have it as “Wright NXT” or Nemesis NXT #7 "Wright Flyer" by Dan Wright.
(Wout inadvertently gave me the keyword.)

Your turn

 

[fabulousfour]

Thanks, Uli.

Here is an easy one.

Must be solved within the next 15 hours since I will be online only sporadically the next days.

 

[fabulousfour]

The plane should have flown to Stockholm via Greenland, but ran out of fuel before reaching a prepared airstrip there.
It then remained for decades on Greenland's icecap but was recovered about half a century ago. It was restored and now is in a museum.

 

[fabulousfour]

By the way, the manufacturer is well known and the aircraft is not a one-off, according to Wikipedia more than 100 of the type were built.

Capacity for 6 persons on board.

 

[pomme homme]

With those clues it must be the 1928 Stinson Detroiter ('The Greater Rockford') of Cramer/Hassell.

 

[fabulousfour]

It is the "Greater Rockford" which lay "on the rocks" in Greenland for 40 years.

Over to you, Mike!

 

[pomme homme]

Thank you, Robert.

Here's an unusual sesquiplane - perhaps unusual for what you can't see on the upper mainplanes!

 

[lefty]

Mike, your wee flivver sans ailerons is unfamiliar to me.....is this a late-model wing-warper, or just another flight of Gallic fancy ?

 

[pomme homme]

It's definitely gallic but it isn't a wing warper. As to why the upper main planes are sans ailerons, maybe this image will explain.

 

[lefty]

Even a limited grasp of aerodynamics would suggest a fairly drastic reaction on tweaking those levers!

And that doesn't even look like a proper aerofoil section......please tell me there's a clip of it flying on YouTube..

 

[pomme homme]

Oh pou! Think of a flying ladder and you'll be on your way. If not, when I return home later today I'll supply the answer.

 

[giruXX]

Le BICHEL de Jean-Philippe Meulien, perhaps?

 

[pomme homme]

You're on the right lines, Uli, but it's not le Bichel. It's the Dragon 1 of Daniel Dalby, a designer best known for his Pouchel - so called because it employs the Mignet formula (thus Pou) and has a ladder frame fuselage (thus chel from echelle). And if you think that the Dragon 1 is strange, Mike, I invite you to google his Hydrochel 2. Against that the Dragon looks ridiculously normal!

Open house, I think.

 

[Moses03]

Okay, here is a pleasing pusher to ponder.

 

[pomme homme]

What a delightful example of alliteration - no, that's Kevin's text about which I speak, not the aeroplane illustrated!

 

[Moses03]

This landplane version crashed on it's first flight in 1917. The earlier floatplane variant was more documented. From a well-known designer.

 

[Moses03]

Here is the floater version. I think the designers most famous build was a racer but he was involved with over fifteen different aircraft.