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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Had my last ever exam on thursday afternoon so I'm not a student anymore! Just got the small matter of finding jobs though.:monkies:
 
Best of luck to you James.

Having an absolutely beautiful day here. Sunshine and a nip in the air. Seems criminal to be in front of a computer!

Onward and upward-
 
...this is the point at which someone usually says, 'No, it's the E.232B model that was made in Romania and called a Sznuj', but assuming I'm right, can I post anything?

No. 'Upload of file failed' - and I wanted to get an early night & finish off my 900 page Dreadnought book! Will just read through that stuff about how to get round recent problems here...

Hope to post something soon :redface:
 
Elle marche! OK, no need to i/d that one, it was just :france: THE BE-ALL AND END-ALL OF FRENCH AVIATION. :france: (Let's hope it was the right mess he flew into.)

Here's my actual mystery for you:



I'm sure someone will get it on the waking-up side of the planet. Off to :sleep:
 
:icon29: to lefty! Well, it lasted the night. The Scooter was a one-off Camel monoplane built for Harry Hawker, and very nice it was too!

Sorry about delay in replying, just got back from work.
 
Thanks Ralf. (Work, eh ? Hmmm, I remember that. :icon_lol: )

Just for a change, not a floater. This one's a slider....

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That looks like a Fairchild 82, but fitted with an inline engine instead of the usual P&W Wasp.

If it is a Fairchild 82, you can have it on floats as well. :jump:

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-James
 
James, this is indeed a version of the Fairchild 82, but this had its own designation and indeed, name. No prizes until you get them !
 
34-42 Niska? Apparently, the Ranger engine did not work out, and it was re-engined with a P&W Wasp; and renamed the Model 82D.

-James

P.S. I think I asked once before already; but does anyone have a 3 view of a Fairchild 82? I have a FS2004 model in the works; but it is based on photographs only, so it is less than accurate.
 
In fact the Niska may be the most historically interesting of the -82's:

At Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, airworthiness tests were conducted in May, however, due to unsatisfying rate of climb the CofA was refused. In August it was taken to the USA for tests. CF-AXO returned to Canada where the Ranger engine was removed and a 600 hp Pratt & Whitney S3H1 Wasp was fitted.

The aircraft was sold as an 82D registered CF-MAK and was the sole 82D staying in Canada where it was operated equipped with either wheels, skis, or floats as undercarriage. Niska was named after an Indian tribe living on the Nass River in British Colombia, Canada.

"This photograph of Chuck McAvoy’s 1938 Fairchild model 82D (CF-MAK) was taken on July 12, 1962, while moored at the Float Base tie-up in the Old Town at Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Thus, this image of the aircraft on pontoons probably shows exactly how it appeared on the day it went down on June 9, 1964 about 100 miles (161 km) southwest of Bathurst Inlet near Lupin Lake in what is now the Northwest Territories/Nunavut border.
http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/3312.htm

08/07/2003. From the Edmonton Sun newspaper: "Wreckage believed to be the remains of McAvoy's plane was found Sunday (August 3, 2003) near the border between the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, about 364 mls (585 km) north of Yellowknife.... McAvoy planned to land near Yellowknife, but the ice wasn't stable. Instead, he headed for Itchen Lake, east of Great Bear Lake. It was the last anyone heard from him."

http://ensign.ftlcomm.com/ensign2/mcintyre/pickofday/august04_03/mcavoy.html

Rob
 
Just did a Google Earth of Yellowknife, Rob. Some real vintage commercials scattered about that airport !
 
Since I mentioned it; here is a screenshot of the Fairchild 82 WIP. (Sorry, the FS2004 computer was busy, so I took it in FS2002.)



It is an 82A, with the same "banana tail" as the early Fairchilds. It also used the same wings as the Fairchild 71.

I did alot of "point pushing" to convert the fusalage of a 71 similiar to the one in the background to an 82. It worked to a point, and had the advantage that you could use the same texture files for the other planes in the "Early Fairchild Series", despite the differences. But, the mesh is bit of a mess, and still have lots of cockpit details to figure out; so I pushed it into the back of the hanger for now.

Onward and upward with our latest mystery. Well, at least onward....

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-James
 
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