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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

European. First designed and flown late 1980's, revived and tweaked in 2015 and being marketed now.

Sad to say Walter would have had this one nailed by now...
 
OK time to move on - this, originally flown as the Martekno Atol, from :finland:, is now on the market as the LSA ATOL. Very nice too. Open House please.
 

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This was posted elsewhere as "one of those fanciful magazine covers..." but it was, amazingly, not so fanciful.
It should be a momentary diversion while others search their troves of grainy, horrid monsters.
 

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Mais oui! C'est le Bleriot :very_drunk:

Would have been such a wonderful view from the front seats.
 

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Thank you. But what a floater it might have been!

Moving from the substantial to the insubstantial, here's a design with some provenance on here. I just hope that it's grainy, horrid and monstrous enough!

 
Don't get 'too cross' on learning that it's not a formule Mignet, Kevin. This aeroplane has three axis controls, the forward wing has ailerons and the rear wing pivots. It's amongst the most recent of a veritable lineage of such aircraft.
 
Your generous clue has not helped. :biggrin-new: There are a lot of Croses but I can't seem to find an exact match.

I will leave it to the experts!
 
An autoplan and Lacroix go together, but I can't find anything more recent than the LMB-12 which was certainly less moderne than the present puzzle
 
You're certainly barking up the right tree. F-PEZI (the LNB.12) postdates this example by 13 years - according to one source - or 11 years - according to the DGAC.
 
Neither is it, Uli, the Dumolard 01 that's in the reserve collection of la Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace. It's much later than that. But I think that I owe it to you all to put you out of this autoplan misery. The autoplan illustrated is the Lacroix 2L.XVI, a single seater built by Robert Milcent in 1989 or 1991 (depending upon the source upon you rely) and registered F-PZMI. I believe that it is still airwirthy.

And if you ever do go to Espace Air Passion at Angers-Marcé (my favourite aircraft museum), srgalahad, please let me know in advance and I'll let you have Christian Ravel's contact details. I'm sure that if asked nicely, he'll show you around the museum's reserve collection, which is housed in the hangar adjacent to the museum building, and which is a veritable Aladdin's cave of the wierd and wonderful of French light aviation over the past century!

Oh, and open house, I think.
 
Sorry, Robert, your post appeared whilst I was, somewhat labouriously, typing mine. It isn't Roland Cuvelier's Lacroix 2L.12 Manouche either.
 
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