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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

It's a not-very-well-documented period, Uli, and like the others I was stuck in a SABCA/Poncelet/Simonet rut.

Further digging revealed a Dewoitine in various competitions, but I couldn't find the D.7 in my Dewoitine bible ! Only later found tucked away, a wee chapter on avionettes, and there she was.

Here's Georges Barbot looking very chuffed after pocketing 25000 francs for the double crossing (in a 14hp plane..)
 

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Now this one will be much easier for you fellows - I can't find evidence that it actually flew, but then again one source says it wasn't even built !

Anyway, it's a bit different, so -
 

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lefty said:
Now this one will be much easier for you fellows - I can't find evidence that it actually flew, but then again one source says it wasn't even built !

Anyway, it's a bit different, so -
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Well it's different in many ways besides being unmistakably french (she even has the Aeronavale marking on the tail!) and the Caproni-like stagger of the wings is very curious to say the least….having said that it's the first time I see this pic!
(oh yes it was shown at a Salon in Paris in the late twenties)
Cheers
Carlo
 
Maybe the Levasseur PL.151?

Couldn't find a photo of her but according to the secretprojects-forum a Levasseur inverted sesquiplane was shown in Paris in 1932... :dizzy:
 
That's the one, Robert - very few photos around, or information about what happened to this one. Why, one wonders, an inverted sesquiplane ? The other notable feature is the enormous props on those Levasseurs.

Over to ff - :guinness:
 
Thanks, Mike.

Here is a biplane with "normal" configuration though the size might be a bit unusual.
 

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Cheers FF.

Didn't see this listed...

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After checking the internet and a leading French specialist. The Levasseur PL.151 is just a mockup. Not built so couldn't have flown but very interesting to see a picture of it.

Chris
 
Well I suspected as much, Chris. At least it explains why there is a shortage of other images !

Re the flags - as I understand, the rainbow flag has been commandeered by the LGBT community - what it's doing at an airshow is anybody's guess........and Robert, the Hawaiian flag is unique in still incorporating the Union Jack !
 
The pic was taken at Sun'n Fun in 1996. Engine is a 40 HP Kawasaki.
The company went on to make UAVs - the first being called Tarzan, for the US Navy...
 
Green has given us the answer but you are all being reticent.....

Let's move on - this is the Theiss Speedster from Salem OH.

Not a washing machine motor this time - it's from a snowmobile!
 
Is it a snowmobile in a blizzard - a total white out - because I can't see anything attached to your post, Mike!

Afterthought: could your mystery be Westland Widgeon IIIA CF-AIQ which, apparently, was converted to a snowmobile in 1946?
 
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