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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Ingenious shot at that one, Kevin ! This beast was a lot bigger (a three-seater) and wasn't French.
 
& Co. said:
...klaatu barada nikto...
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Hehe, watch out for Gort! He gets irritated easily. :icon_lol:

Hopefully the Blackburn isn't a license built Canso Cansidian or some such so I will press on with a new one. Lefty can scold us if we are wrong.

Next up-
 
I can't find any pictures of it online but is it a PIK-10 Moottoribaby, which is apparently a motorglider based on the Grunau Baby.
edit: have also found it refered to as a Paukkulauta, some pictures do come up for that and I'm not so sure if it is one now. Still think its based on a Grunau though.
 
I found a reference to the PIK-10 having its first flight in 1949. This one predates that by a good decade or so. Not a PIK model.
 
I'm pretty sure its a glider conversion, or based on a glider. I've seen a similar job done on the T-31 but obviously thats much too modern (but looks very similar), but I'd assume that people have been converting glider designs into powered a long time before that (you could say the wright brothers did).
 
Had to look it up - it's an Erla 6A.

If you don't mind, I shall proceed too 'cos I know it's right !

What is this stunner ?
 
I'm wondering if this is a Coanda effort. I found reference to a 1916 bomber project maybe derived from the attached pic?
 
No it isn't one of Coanda's efforts,although similar in concept.

It is, naturally, French. Any other takers ?
 
Maybe something from the Dufaux Brothers? I am a little suprised that some of us have not run across this one before.
 
I'm sure I would have remembered if I had seen it before..!

Was looking at Coanda projects myself, but didn't come up with anything.
 
Sorry, chaps, been distracted for a while. Time to put this monster to bed.
It is a De Monge/Buscaylet Experimental from 1918.
Louis de Monge was a propeller designer, who later founded his own company but built this for Buscaylet.
Did it fly ? Nobody knows.
If not, I apologise. But it deserves to be here just because it is so, well, awful.

Here's something more real.
 
I have to get up at 6 every morning to feed the 5 cats. (It's better than having to get up at 5 to feed the 6 cats...though it may one day come to that.)

...is this too easy?
 
Well I posted this one a long time ago - and I have a feeling nobody got it. Let's see this time. I am off shopping (yuk) and don't expect it to be there when I get back !
 
Before I go out to do my shopping, I'll guess it's the Breda-Zappata BZ.308.

Figured that the canard was either the Beech model 115 or the Jetcruzer 450, but couldn't find a photo of either last night...
 
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