The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[fabulousfour]

It is the ML Utility!

Over to you, Walter

 

[wout]

A small floater cabriolet. She has no wheels.

 

[Moses03]

Going by the back end of the car, it's early to mid 70's USA. (1974 Chevy Nova perhaps).

That is all I have.

 

[pomme homme]

She has no wheels

Nor does she appear to have any floats or sponsons, which might make for interesting take-offs and landings.

 

[wout]

This is the Puddle Jumper (N37BP) by Bryce and Joe Petersen of W.Virginia, ca.1980/1981. Engine was a 55hp HAPI/VW1600, mostly composite construction.
Reported as a scaled-up version of a 1/4 scale model with which the designers set several FAI records in 1978.

OH suggested, all agree?, go-ahead then

and for the coming new year, I like to wish you double of what you wish for me.

 

[fabulousfour]

A Happy New Year to all of you.

Here is a mystery which shouldn't bother you for too long, but you can earn an extra beer if you tell me the location where the picture was taken.

 

[Moses03]

Happy New year Robert and all!

I'm seeing an Isthmian Airways Hamilton H-47 anchored near Taboga Island (Panama) about 1930.

 

[fabulousfour]

Nothing more to add, Kevin!

Over to Texas, please.

 

[Moses03]

Thanks Robert.

Will follow suit, the chopper is not so difficult but the location is interesting. Can you name both?

 

[pomme homme]

Hiller UH-12, I'd surmise. But where? Neither my geography nor my ethnography helps (although I'll take a stab at Sudan).!

 

[Moses03]

It is the Hiller Mike, but the photo hails from the land down under. 

How about a guess at the most highest latitude spot on the continent? (Think peninsula).


Edit: Mike, the board is yours of course. An extra pint for anyone who can guess the geography bit.

 

[lefty]

Can never resist a challenge for a pint - it is Friday after all !
Did some digging and found out that one Hiller was used for bauxite surveying in Cape York - which is as far north as you can get in Oz.

http://www.taamuseum.org.au/TAAAircraft/Helicopters.html

 

[Moses03]

Lefty is dead on.

 

[Moses03]

If pomme homme Mike is out of pocket, Lefty please continue.

 

[pomme homme]

My apologies. Only now have I read the edit to your prepenultimate post, Kevin. Hitherto I'd assumed that the baton had passed to lefty, as he'd answered the hard part of the challenge. I think that equity dictates that this is how it should be. So Scotland, we await you!

 

[lefty]

It was only a supplementary, which merely required a bit of Googling, so the baton rests fairly and squarely in France. I have nothing for the moment anyway.

 

[pomme homme]

Well, I don't think that identifying a Hiller UH-12 deserves much credit but .....

Here's something that flew but in a singularly unimpressive manner. And it was plug-ugly (in the non Baltimore sense of the word) too!

 

[giruXX]

first flight in 1953 according to literature

 

[pomme homme]

If my understanding is correct, 1953 saw her only flights (and to use that word is to stretch a point). The picture shows her as a scrap heap queen in the following year. Bonus p[o]ints for identifying the source of the engines in the foreground!

 

[giruXX]

OK, extra p(o)ints are tempting: Hants & Sussex HS.1 Herald with some Airspeed Oxford engines in the foreground, if my source is right.