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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

It was a long time ago, Kevin ! This was a sort of replica built in Turkey in 2001 to recreate a Bleriot XI long-distance flight of 1914 (Istanbul-Damascus-Jerusalem-Cairo-Alexandria)

They were built by THK - the basic one called AK-01X, and the later two, which actually made the flight, AK-2000X. This one of those.

Don't have a new mystery yet, so OH, please.
 
Well it's Kevin's turn to be coy - he obviously knows it, so I'll step into the breach. This is an experimental version of the Junkers A.50, D-1682.

The only information I can find, Chris, is from Günter Schmitt's book 'Hugo Junkers and his Aircraft', as follows -
 

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Thanks Chris. One assumes that the 'horns' were some sort of counterbalance to the pivoting wings...

Time for a floater - don't think this has featured here before -
 

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Thanks Mike. We hit 100F yesterday. Argh!


Here is a ship that seems to be drawing a lot of interest...

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Hello boys and girls!
I think she's a EMSCO B3 but I'm not sure which sub-type she's. I have 3 different pics of this ship with 3 different tails: anyway she could be the "Classina Madge"...
Cheers
Carlo
 
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