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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

It's a Prest Baby Pursuit. Held a speed record at one time I think.

In Uli's defense, the search function can be schizophrenic at times.


Will press on with an unusual trainer...

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Having decided that the North Korean markings were a red herring (Kevin would never leave a clue like that !) it was a question of working out which Ryan this was - the clumsy gear indicates PT-22 ?
 
Thanks Kevin - I must have missed that episode....

Here is a very smart and clean design for a two-seater....
 

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Good grief, I can remember that episode! Didn't the aeroplane come in at the same time each day attempting, unsuccessfully, to bomb an ammunition dump close to the field hospital?
 
Right, no takers on my nice two-seater. Well it is from this side of the Atlantic, from a very well-known maker, but only a couple were produced..to speed things up, I'll give another grainier view, which will give it away immediately...
 

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That's close enough for me, Chris:icon29:. The book from which I took the picture captions it as the 1923 Berliner Helicoplane, which was Emile Berliner's fifth rotary wing machine. The caption goes on to say, without apparent irony, that it "combined almost every known flight mechanism". But even this did not allow it to put more than a couple of metres between it and terra firma!
 
Sadly Chris, since the search function in Aerofiles became defunct, it is now somewhat tedious to look for anything.
That's a very neat-looking machine, though, and the pilot/owner looks rightly pleased with himself ! Would that be the Californian coastline, perhaps ?
 
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