The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[Moses03]

How about the de Bolotoff triplane effort? Described as a "Goupy type" build.

 

[pomme homme]

Spot on, Kevin! It is the de Bolotoff Triplane, the handiwork of Prince Serge Vincent de Bolotoff, the husband of Gordon Selfridge's eldest daughter. Et maintenant de retour au Texas!

 

[Moses03]

Thanks Mike.

From triplane to trimotor...

 

[pomme homme]

Caudron C.25 at the 1919 Paris Salon.

 

[Moses03]

Done and done!

Wish I had a time machine to go back to one of the Salon shows and wander about.

 

[pomme homme]

Thank you, Kevin.

I think that I'd be asking for a time machine large enough to permit me to get a few of the exhibits into it and bring those back with me to the present day! Does anyone have a spare tardis?

Anyhow, onto the next challenge - of which I'll say no more than: Home, James, and don't spare the horsepower!

 

[Moses03]

Mike, I am thinking this is the Bleriot XXIV with the four passenger cabin.

 

[pomme homme]

Then you are thinking clearly and correctly, Kevin. It is the Blériot XXIV Limousine - equipped with a speaking tube to enable the passengers, from the comfort of their coach built enclosed cabin, to tell the pilot where to go! Back to Texas, if you will.
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[Moses03]

Stepping away from the early ones. A modern monoplane in comparison!

 

[Moses03]

Two built and this was a modification slightly beyond the first one. A few of it's stablemates have appeared here previously.

 

[Sopwith Chameleon]

....... its a Vultee design - but not by Vultee

 

[Moses03]

Yes it was. Crashed in 1931.

 

[Moses03]

Need to hand this off to Jim. He obviously has deciphered the Emsco B-7C.

 

[Sopwith Chameleon]

....... thanks ! Here's a stretched design .......

 

[srgalahad]

Ivan certainly had some interesting ideas...

 

[cthornburg]

Makhonine MAK-101

Chris

 

[srgalahad]

Quite a complete story here:
https://falkeeinsgreatplanes.blogspot.com/2011/01/makhonine-10-and-101-retractable-winged.html

"Yvan Makhonine, a Russian expatriate conceived the idea of the telescopic wing. The wing outer panel 'telescoped' into the inner panel to reduce span and wing area for high speed flight and was extended for economic cruise and landing."

 

[cthornburg]

When you said Ivan I thought you meant Russian. I knew it was French but didn't know the whole story.

Here's something new and easy.

Chris

 

[srgalahad]

When you said Ivan I thought you meant Russian. I knew it was French but didn't know the whole story.

Here's something new and easy.

Chris

I was being cryptic to allow others to jump in. T'was a bit unfair for me to reply directly as I'd literally just finished reading a post elsewhere about the MAK family when Jim posted his mystery. Ivan probably Gallicized the spelling when he emigrated west. Besides, with an annual general meeting of an association to run tomorrow I had no time to dig up a new challenge . It's taking all my time to assemble the Kevlar body armour for the meeting.

Carry on with the wee kerosene burner

 

[lefty]

Well this one is right out of my comfort zone, but we have to move on.....
It is the TAI Hürjet from what we must now call Turkiye.