The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[pomme homme]

Thank you, Kevin. We haven't had a helicopter for a while, so perhaps try this. It won't be any surprise that it's a homebuilt. It may be more of a surprise is that, according to what should be a reliable source, it flew!

 

[cthornburg]

made in Nigeria. If it flew it was pushed over a cliff.

Chris

 

[pomme homme]

You have the country, Chris. It is said that, under its own power (a Honda Civic auto engine), it rose to the height of seven feet - and there's no mention of the pilot employing a seven foot high cliff face to assist him to do so!

 

[srgalahad]

Thank you, Kevin. We haven't had a helicopter for a while, so perhaps try this. It won't be any surprise that it's a homebuilt. It may be more of a surprise is that, according to what should be a reliable source, it flew!

Nope, not on your life would I try that, nor not in my life which, if I did try it, would likely end quickly

 

[pomme homme]

Built in Kano, fifteen years ago, allegedly from - although this may be apocryphal - the remains of a crashed Boeing 747 and car parts.

 

[pomme homme]

I don't think that there's any point in persisting with this one. The helicopter dosn't have a designation but it was designed and built by Mubarak Abdullahi in Kano, Nigeria, in 2007. Open house!

 

[Dev One]

A simple search does not throw this one up, so heregoes:
Keith

 

[lefty]

Another British non-starter (a bit like our Winter Olympians). The Britten-Norman Nymph, described as an 'expensive copy of a US plane' built for a market that just wasn't there.

 

[pomme homme]

Another British non-starter (a bit like our Winter Olympians)

Now if John and Des had instead called it the Britten-Norman Scottish Rugby Football Team .....

 

[Dev One]

Spot on Lefty, & with a bit of modification she became the NAC Freelance, which didn't catch on either.
Over to you
Keith

 

[lefty]

Thank you Keith - here's one that didn't go much further either -

 

[fabulousfour]

That, Mike, is the Deicke Doppeldecker (=biplane) from

 

[giruXX]

Surprising conicidence!! I prepared to write:

That Sir ist the Arthur Deicke biplane from 1930-31

 

[lefty]

Well of course you are both correct but Robert hit the tape a few minutes ahead, so over to him....

 

[fabulousfour]

Mike, are you participant in the aviaquiz? I know that photo only from there and recognized it immediately.

On with a monoplane.

 

[Motormouse]

A simple search does not throw this one up, so heregoes:
Keith

I recall seeing the Nymph at Bembridge one time,
It's demountable wings were removed ( IIRC it had been designed to be able to be towed on road, behind a car)

Ttfn

Pete

 

[fabulousfour]

A European one-off from a well-known company.

 

[Moses03]

Wilbault 368 Robert.

Last known photo of it:

https://aviation-ancienne.forumactif.com/t8560-je-seche-non-wibault-368

 

[fabulousfour]

You have it, Kevin!

A rather unusual design for a Wibault better known for their parasol fighters.

Over to Texas.

 

[Moses03]

Up next, a grainy biplane.