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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Could be. I think it looks more like the 282 but they're both pretty much identical.

I was looking at British or Italian, didn't think it looked particularly French.
 
:ernae: Yep, it's a Wibault-Penault 281. I didn't think it looked very French either. Guess there is no puling the wool over any eyes here.

Where will I find the foaming jar of ale? (lager or whatever it is?)
 
The Spartan was much leaner than this one, James (Here is the last remaining bit of one, in East Fortune).

No, Sandar's mystery is a French lady, a Wibault 281.

Gulp, what happened ? Two posts appeared from nowhere - beaten to it "
 
Something odd going on here - when I looked at the thread, James' Spartan quote was the last post - now they keep appearing from out of the blue! That wee gremlin must be lurking still in there, Ickie !
 
I realised that as soon as I checked to see if there was a radial version. Just the first low wing trimotor (other than the Ju52) which popped into my head.
 
Lefty, have you visited National Museum of Flight at East Fortune? I have never been there. It is too far away for me to visit on a day trip, but is it worth a long weekend in Lothian?

I am far too spoilt for choice where I live as I have at least 6 world class aviation museums within a little over an hours drive. Not to mention the annual Moth rally at Woburn.
 
East Fortune is good but probably not worth a long trip, as you say. Unfortunately they decided to put a lot of resources, i.e. cash, into getting a ruddy Concorde (which has absolutely no Scottish connection) and everything else is shoved away in tatty hangars. A motley collection but some relative rarities like the Me163 and G.A. Cygnet, as well as a Bolingbroke which is actually being worked on.

I was down at a special open day recently where the curator took us behind the scenes - the engine and prop room is a bit special.

Also found myself last week in another museum - anyone know where this is ?
 
That would be North East Air Museum.

Another one on my list to visit (which also includes East Fortune).

The Concorde is a double edged sword, they have moved a lot of stuff into other hangars but everything is indoors and Concorde is what brings in a lot of the money (so I'm told) to cover the costs of looking after the other stuff.

I hear their workshop hangar is bigger than our display hangar! (I heard there is even room to park your car in the hangar, so no wandering halfway across the museum with your toolbox in winter)
 
Now I think I've posted one of these before in a different guise. I think it's an Egyptian Hawker Audax with Panther engine. (Curiously omitted from the Putnam Hawker by Mason)
 
lefty said:
I think it's an Egyptian Hawker Audax with Panther engine. (Curiously omitted from the Putnam Hawker by Mason)
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Hmm, well maybe that's because it is in my Putnam Avro volume as a Avro 674. I can't tell the difference between the Audax Mk. X & the 674.

"...in view of the amount of redesign, allotted their own type number Avro 674."

Good call on the Panther X. :guinness: Over to the Scotsman-
 
If memory serves correctly (old age and senility are conspiring against me now :rolleyes:), the original specification for the aeroplane, which spawned the 'Fury' series from Hawker, specified a radial engine requirement, later altered to the R.R. Kestrel.

Oh, I have found the beers (told you about the senility, didn't I?) :guinness::icon29:
 
Yes, I remember it now - my Jane's of the period still calls it a Hawker, but Moses is right. I'll take the beer anyway ! (although in the real world, I am sworn off it for a while till my waistline reaches acceptable proportions again)

Right, lets move around a bit...
 
I too, though American, but there are similarities to the Fokker Super Universal, except the mystery one is more modern.
 
I know it's European, I also know it's an ICAR IAR-36 Commercial from Romania

Or if you prefer it is a license built Messerschmitt M-36.
 
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