The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[fabulousfour]

Looks a bit like the Caproni Ca.124 but I doubt that it is her.

 

[lefty]

This military machine was built in a west European country and a few were sold to the mother country of Madeira... Very famous designer - one of Kevin's favourites.....

 

[fabulousfour]

Then it should be the Fokker T.III.
I thought about Fokker already but looked only for pictures of the T.II where the floats look quite different...

 

[Moses03]

I stalled out on the T.II and then had to go back to work.

 

[pomme homme]

Which T.III is it in the photograph? Online it says that one was 'lost in fog over the sea near Brest' on its delivery flight. If that was the one 'found floating in the Atlantic' then it's a heck of a long way for a fishing boat to tow a floatplane - from Brest to Funchal!

 

[lefty]

It has to be one of the three T.IIIW machines purchased by Portugal. I've been unable to find exact details - obviously it isn't the one which foundered in the Bay of Biscay.

The giveaway is the very wide floats and accompanying strutting -there is simply nothing else which fits.

I'll try to get more detail on my next trip to Funchal in 2019 (a creature of habit), although my lack of Portuguese is a hindrance ! - in the meantime the cerveja goes to Robert -

 

[fabulousfour]

Mike, don't most people on Madeira speak a quite reasonable English? On my last trip there I had almost no difficulty to be understood, some people even speaking a broken German. However, that was 20 years ago.

Here is another floater.

 

[lefty]

Robert, I was thinking more in terms of accessing old documents in the library, or whatever. Yes, English is very widely spoken, and German too. Probably 40% of the regular guests in our hotel are German.

Of course, if you believe the anti-Brexit scaremongers, we Brits will be prohibited from entry quite soon. I suggested this to my Madeiran publican friend who thought it immensely funny........

By the way, I like your floater - a new one to me. Must get working on it.

 

[lefty]

Of course - it's the Albatros L.102. Or Focke-Wulf Fw55. Take your choice !

 

[fabulousfour]

I do accept both, Mike.
In fact that would have been one of my clues, if it would have become necessary.

Over to you

 

[lefty]

Thank you Robert.

Here's neat little machine for your next mystery - should last a few minutes !

 

[wout]

Hi Mike
The closest I can think of is the XX-02 from Chile. If wrong, at least I got the contest going

 

[lefty]

Hi Walter
the designation I have is HFB XX-02B from, of course, Chile. Over to you sir

 

[Baragouin]

It has to be one of the three T.IIIW machines purchased by Portugal. I've been unable to find exact details - obviously it isn't the one which foundered in the Bay of Biscay.

The giveaway is the very wide floats and accompanying strutting -there is simply nothing else which fits.

I'll try to get more detail on my next trip to Funchal in 2019 (a creature of habit), although my lack of Portuguese is a hindrance ! - in the meantime the cerveja goes to Robert -

Hi Mike
please forgive me for my slow thinking and even worse eyesight but even by magnifying your pic of the Fokker t-IIIW(or 3) I still cannot make any head or tail of the big dark bulge on top of the fuselage looking to me like the half of an ice-cream cone (if I may use this irreverent expression)...would anybody care to explain?
Cheers
Carlo

 

[lefty]

Carlo, I don't really know but suspect it might be a crew member!

 

[wout]

A high wing canard basking in the sun.

 

[Green]

The Specter II?

 

[wout]

Hi Mr. Green
That is the one. Developed by MNK Enterprises, Inc. I understand she made one flight (May 1997), was then damaged in a storm, stored, rebuilt, offered for sale, but the project ended.

Your turn, please

 

[Green]

Cheers Wout!

 

[giruXX]

The Collins W-7 Dipper from 1982