The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[pomme homme]

Yes, you have it, Robert . More precisely, it's the L.6A motoplaneur. Over to l'Allemagne.

 

[fabulousfour]

Thanks, Mike!
At first look that plane yelled "Fournier" but then the details didn't fit, so I had do dig a bit deeper.
Strange that there are so few photos in the net from that type.

Here is my next mystery, I have left a small clue in the picture to keep it a bit easier.

 

[fabulousfour]

Intended as a postal/colonial transport, 2 aircraft built.

 

[giruXX]

Loire 11, methinks

 

[fabulousfour]

You think right, Uli, it is the Loire 11.

Over to the Black Forest

 

[giruXX]

on with an oddity

 

[Sopwith Chameleon]

HP 20 ( modified DH 9A )

 

[Moses03]

We had the Loire 11 once before. Funny, I didn't think it was that far back!

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforu...read-Part-Deux?p=282152&viewfull=1#post282152

 

[giruXX]

Cheers to Sopwith Chameleon

for the Handley Page X.4B (H.P.20)

 

[Sopwith Chameleon]

Thanks ! How about this string and cardboard effort ?

 

[Moses03]

I have it as the Khoel KO-11. Not sure if that is correct as I have no other information on it!

 

[Sopwith Chameleon]

You are right as far as it goes because this is a real mystery ship : listed as being constructed by Hermann Khoel and Ernst Von Loesse , in Weimar in i1933/34 , it is also suggested that it is a an uncredited Alexander Lippisch design ....

over to you .......

 

[Moses03]

Is it a bird or a plane? No, it's a plane.

 

[lefty]

Think I'll take the bus, thank you.......

 

[pomme homme]

Rudder? Naah, 'oo needs one of them!

 

[Moses03]

The lack of rudder caused directional control problems. Flown in 1929 and not in Aerofiles.

 

[Moses03]

It originally was fitted with a Henderson motorcycle engine but then later flown with a Gipsy of unknown type.

Not European either.

 

[srgalahad]

So that's where the term "feather the prop" came from?
Shouldn't it be up in the tree preening itself?

 

[fabulousfour]

Tried a search with

aircraft henderson gipsy 1929

and - Eureka! - got a result after scrolling down for a while.

That should be the Gash Birdplane from

 

[Moses03]

Robert.

Anyone have the Meggs Aussie Aircraft volume 1? Really want a copy but it's mucho expensive.