The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[Moses03]

From the USA.

 

[Moses03]

Tis the Naval Aircraft Factory XPN-12.

Open board.

 

[srgalahad]

Apparently the Madeira authorities have released Mike's passport and allowed him to leave after he paid his taxes and wine bill.
The Solent seems well attended and shipshape.

 

[lefty]

Ahh, cocktails on a tray ! Comfy seats, and proper windows... sadly probably a studio shot, as the noise and vibration would be too much for any pro photographer.

Yes, I'm back in North Korea, previously known as Scotland. Will see if we can dig up a new mystery.........( regarding the wine bill, had to leave a substantial deposit with the Madeiran Government )

 

[lefty]

Well I can't find this pleasant twin in a forum search, but would be surprised if it hasn't been here before....

 

[pomme homme]

Is that a stylised pennant form of the Scottish Saltire under the cockpit side window?

 

[lefty]

Dunno what that pennant symbolises,Mike, But it's no saltire.

A commercial failure from the 70's, only a few built. European, but not British.

A later single-engine version also pooped.

 

[cthornburg]

SIAI/Vulcanair SF600 Canguro

Chris

 

[lefty]

Correct, Chris.

 

[cthornburg]

I'm sure everyone has the latest copy of this magazine.

Chris

 

[Moses03]

I got mine.

Eldred Flyer's Dream.

Here is actual footage of it flying:

 

[cthornburg]

I figured you'd get it since it's from US. Hoping the magazine would throw off people.

Chris

 

[Moses03]

Well it is a twin boomer! Funny all those US post-war runabouts that never went anywhere.

Check out the big tyres!

 

[Moses03]

At the time, this was the largest landplane to date. One-off bomber from the late 1920's.

 

[lefty]

Can't believe nobody has hit on this yet. I have nothing in the pipeline ad a busy day tomorrow.....

 

[pomme homme]

Caproni Ca.90?

 

[Moses03]

It is the giant Italian! Over to Mike.

 

[pomme homme]

Thank you, Kevin. Now here's a svelte runabout for the man about town.

 

[pomme homme]

One must assume that this aeroplane was both elegant and unsuccessful. There was no production of it beyond the prototype, which saw the light of day in 1937.

There is surprisingly little information to be found, online, regarding this tourer. I've found only two references, that tell me no more than that it comprised a steel tube fuselage with wooden wings.

Probably there is more information to be found in the printed media, particularly in a tome produced by the manufacturer's museum. However I do not have that and when I looked for it online, the few copies being offered for sale had a price tag of nearly 500 €. Too steep for me!

 

[pomme homme]

As I know no more about this aeroplane, beyond that mentioned already, I cannot offer any more clues and because no-one has taken a stab at it, perhaps it's time to draw a line under this one and move on. According to the internet the aeroplane is the Caproni Ca. 167. Open house, please.