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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

That is O-BAFK, the A.C.A.Z. T.2 two-seater monoplane from Zeebrugge. :belgium: 'Designed for the owner-pilot of limited means'. I like that.
 
Close enough, I have it as T.1.
However,the registration is correct and both planes seem to have differed only in details.

Over to you, Mike :icon29:
 
I suspect you are right, Robert, and, not for the first time, Jane's is wrong ! Incidentally, whilst searching in '100 Ans d'Aviation en Belgique' I discovered that A.C.A.Z. only became the name of the company in 1925 - prior to that it was ZACCO - much better !

It's ages since we had a floater - here's a nice anonymous-looking one -
 

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I suspect you are right, Robert, and, not for the first time, Jane's is wrong ! Incidentally, whilst searching in '100 Ans d'Aviation en Belgique' I discovered that A.C.A.Z. only became the name of the company in 1925 - prior to that it was ZACCO - much better !

It's ages since we had a floater - here's a nice anonymous-looking one -
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Hi Lefty
This looks to me like a CANT 7ter but it's hard to say because your pic looks more like a silhouette..therefore I'm not sure
Cheers
Carlo
 
It's a bit dark but there's enough detail - for you to get the answer ! Yes, it's the Cant 7. Over to you, Carlo :very_drunk:
 
Chris, my source is Jane's 1926 - notoriously unreliable - but this is I-ONEA, the Cant 7, with 160hp Isotta-Fraschini engine. The -bis model had the beefier 250hp motor, and the -ter an SPA 6A.
 
No takers yet for my yesterday's post? maybe a clue is in order....the men wear a Akubra hat which is usually used in a very specific place...besides in that particular spot only a handful of manufacturers are to be found…
Cheers
Carlo
 
Well, it definitely ain't a DHA-3 Drover!
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Eventually found it - the gear is the giveaway - but I'm away too, so I think Robert should put this one to bed....
 
Back home now, so I will solve this mysterious biplane from Down Under.

It is the Genairco VH-UOS with a Siemens engine, that bird crashed in New Caledonia some miles away from home...

The strange thing is that I knew the Genairco biplanes in its original form, but the radial engine altered the shape so perfectly that I hadn't the slightest idea about this mystery.

I was looking for a biplane of a South American Air Force at first...

Thanks for holding back, Mike! :ernaehrung004:
 
fabulousfour said:
Back home now, so I will solve this mysterious biplane from Down Under.

It is the Genairco VH-UOS with a Siemens engine, that bird crashed in New Caledonia some miles away from home...

The strange thing is that I knew the Genairco biplanes in its original form, but the radial engine altered the shape so perfectly that I hadn't the slightest idea about this mystery.

I was looking for a biplane of a South American Air Force at first...

Thanks for holding back, Mike! :ernaehrung004:
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A perfect identification Robert:icon29: needless to say the roundels are a fake! and now the ball is on your side…..
Cheers
Carlo
PS I forgot to add that the nickname of this bird was "La Roussette"
 
Considerable confusion (and not just on Lefty's part !) about the plethora of broadly similar designs produced by this company, but I'll plump for the CAMS 46
 
Here's scruffy bunch oblivious to the hazards of smoking around aircraft - what is the machine they are with ?
 

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