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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Apparently somebody does, Uli ! (I suspect it was too easy, so they were all holding off....) Over to you - :icon29:
 
Well it’s difficult to find the best balance between trivial and challenging. Let’s try this. According to my search it should be new here.
 

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Google will take over the job if you take what made Phil Taylor famous and restrict your search to aerofiles.com :173go1:
 
Took a while until the penny dropped.

I think this is a Driggs Dart.

Mike, if you are looking for a specific term at aerofiles there is no need to use only the search function there but you can use google as well.

E.g. if you are looking for a two-seated open biplane at aerofiles you have to type at google:

2pob site:aerofiles.com

and google will show you all pages where the term 2pob appears.
And of course you can exchange 2pob for any other term you are looking for and it even works when you type in two different terms, e.g.

2pclwm ranger site:aerofiles.com

will show all pages where 2pclwm and ranger appear (not necessarily together in one type of aircraft).

BTW: this search method should work with any other internet page.

Hope this will be helpful for you. :ernaehrung004:
 
It looks like I got the wrong Phil Taylor. I should have known that Phil 'Philthy Animal' Taylor, the drummer with Motorhead, is unlikely to have inspired the name of an aeroplane!
 
You are both correct! :ernaehrung004:

or just: "dart site:aerofiles.com" (if you followed the suggested path from Phil Taylor via darts to dart)

On with Robert!
 
Thanks for your help on the Aerofiles problem ! I had twigged on the hints, but having checked out several Arrows and Darts wasn't getting anywhere !
 
It is the Leduc RL.21. :encouragement:

A clue would have been that the designer shares his name with another designer who was pioneer in a certain kind of jet propulsion. :very_drunk:

Over to you, Mike. :icon29:
 
To be honest I had never heard of the aircraft. But it looked like a post war Caudron-Renault C450 replica to me. The tail is very similar to the Caudron. And even the blue-white-red band of the French champion was painted on it. The "modern" aircraft in the back told me it was a post war plane.

So I have learned something new again today :biggrin-new:

Cheers,
Huub
 
Thank you, Robert. And I'm pleased to have expanded your knowledge, Huub.

As to your clue, Robert, that would have been the other René Leduc and his ramjets.

The RL.21 is extant. It belongs to Aeroscope Atlantique at Nantes. But since they lost their display premises, last year, the RL-21 has been on display at Espace Air Passion at Angers-Marcé.

On to the next mystery. I'm surprised that it hasn't yet made an appearance here - but a search of the thread indicates that it is a débutant.

 
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