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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

lefty said:
Right. George Handasyde, the Scot in question, set up a business with Helmut Martin called, wait for it - Martinsyde !
George split in 1920, and tendered for a contract for a plane to do the Adelaide-Sydney run. Hence the Handasyde H.2.

The prospect of this brute wheezing its way over the Outback must have had the underwriters quaking in their boots.
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Interesting. Give it another wing, hang a radial engine in the front, and get rid of that silly nosewheel, and you have the ANEC III

nla.pic-vn3722979-v


http://www.oldbeacon.com/beacon/airlines/australia/larkin.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANEC_III

http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3722979

-James H.
 
Wout, you got the Arsenal. :icon29:

And James, (I presume you know this already) components from the Handasyde production run were grabbed by ANEC, who had been subcontracted to build the Handasyde (the miserable Scotsman never paid them), and subsequently used in the ANEC III !

Over to Wout.
 
Closing in Moses03, but nearer to Texas.
Sadly this one-of aircraft crashed in the year it first flew (1957), killing the crew which included the designer. Engines were two 245hp Jacobs R755.
 
The engines and fuselage sides keep making me think it's a one off mod of a Beech 18. There is just something very "Twin Beechish" about it.
 
I'd love to join you in the cantina, Kevin, but I'll be on the ice instead of watching it swirl round my glass.

Last game of the season. Missing the rugby, too.

Wout, you got us all here - time to reveal, please.
 
Moses03, hope the tequila tastes!. Origin of this twin is Mexico.
It is the Lascurain Model 4 Aura (XB-ZEU). Design by Mr. Angel Lascurain y Osio. First flight Febr. 1957, lost later the same year.
wingspan 68.241ft, length 40.092ft, height 14.747ft.
max. speed 134 mph, cruise 124 mph, range 497 miles.

Right now my PC refuses any co-op so cannot upload new picture.
Suggest Moses03 takes turn after sobering up.
 
PC works again. My stupidity, but easier to blame the computer.

Staying with twins. Although picture looks somewhat of that of a model, its a real aircraft. Four prototypes were built, but no production.
 
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