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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Live & learn. A nice-looking aircraft, but presumably too small to be a successful commercial one. Got that picture from the Airlines.net website & I think they said that it was no longer in existence.

I'm afraid SabreAce will be :sleep: now and we'll have to wait a few hours for his next mystery! Mid-day here, so I guess it'll be morning on the US East Coast...
 
Well, I'd need to get a little bit of sleep to keep up with Lefty, now... ;)

Came across a bit of interesting reading about the 220 here:

http://www.anav8r.com/page03.htm

As of 1982, she was in private hands. A quick check on Airliners.net shows the most recent photo was at El Paso, Texas, in March of 2002, where she supposedly still sits, along with some F-106 fuselages.

Now then, onward with the mysteries.
 
I think we can go ahead and call that a correct for Ralf :icon29:

The info I've got lists that as a Wibault-Penhoet 283, with the main visual difference between it and the 282 (at least in the 1 picture of each I've got) being that the 282 didn't have the massive fairings on the main wheels. I can't say for certain if that's a legitimate difference, or if the 282 in the other image has just had them removed/never put on. The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft (ed. David Donald) only lists an increase in fuel supply as the change between 282 and 283 models.

Over to you.
 
Different props, but it is hard to tell unless you have the rest of that reg ! My guess is the 283.

Come on Ralf, something tasty from Sherwood, please. (I seem to remember Friar Tuck loved venison pasties - one of those will do)
 
Seem to remember that you also got excited when I went to Melton Mowbray, home of the succulent pork pie, in the summer...

Anyway, here's a (non-food-related) aircraft I came across recently & thought might get you chaps scratching your heads:
 
lefty said:
Gosh ! A single-engined two=seat biplane ! Not many of those around,then............
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No need to be sarcastic just because you didn't get your venison (or know the aeroplane), Mike! :icon_lol: :gameoff:

Moses, however, gets the :icon29: :icon37:! Leopoldoff L.3 Colibri - and there are a few still flying.
 
I thought the Leopoldoff looked like so unremarkable that nobody would get it, but was proved wrong by the redoubtable Moses - well done indeed.

Just to show I've got nothing against biplanes, here's one that doesn't look like a zillion others ! (and I am miffed about the pasty, too. Will have to settle for a Scotch pie)
 
Thanks. To be fair, my initial reaction was the same as Lefty's on the L-3. I just got lucky plowing through some French stuff straight away. :)


T-tail biplane with rat-a-tat-tat. Hmm...
 
Nothing like a nights sleep to recharge the batteries. Call me wacko but I think it is Waco WHD-A.
 
That's the one, although my Jane's of the period calls it a Waco D-7. Trying to work out Waco codes would baffle Sherlock at his peak.

Would have been very surprised if you hadn't got that one !
 
I went with the designation from Aerofiles.


Now for something completely different. How about this curious number?

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That is a good question! I had assumed it had a single pusher prop in the back you can't see in the photo but not sure. Maybe I should post another?
 
Drawn a blank so far on the obvious sources - most flying wings started off as gliders, so it's a bit academic. If it's a pusher prop, it's a wee one !
The gentleman with the co-respondent shoes does look terribly American, but is that a red herring ? The paint job however is a bit German ? Come on, Kevin, I need HELP here !
 
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