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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

I suspect that this means that it is Chinese, but what I know about modern Chinese helicopters could be inscribed on a pin head leaving room to spare!
 
The other side side of the mountain.

And all I know about modern Chinese helicopters is that they are largely Eurocopters wearing new clothes, apart from the supposedly new Harbin Z-20 which is very obviously a reverse engineered Black Hawk.
 
Thanks Chris - indebted to the Larkins book for pointing me in the direction of the Boeing...

This one, although you can't see it clearly, is a trimotor -
 

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Thanks Mike.

It takes a lot of engineers to build a large biplane!

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Powered by a modified Bugatti engine. It made it's last flight in 1922 and was considered unsuccessful.

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In regards to the Breguet XX,XXI I think it's the XX airliner version with all the windows. The pix I have of the XXI shows different struts.

Chris
 

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Gosh, when I see all the bracing and struts on these giant biplanes I think of Nevil Shutes book about doing stress calculations on airships. All manual calculations! Lots and lots,,

normb
 
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