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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

I've a feeling there's an inexhaustible supply of horrors in the Texas vaults......

(It'll take the lad's mind off the heat anyway)
 
Lefty is the Cheshire cat over in the corner. This one managed a few hops before catching a fence at the end of the runway.
 
Well it's the inappropriately named Joy JX from 1935, whose pilot miraculously survived his first 'flight' in this creation. How he was ever persuaded into it remains a mystery.

I hear the call of the sea again.............
 
As usual, detective work + luck. A search of Aerofiles under 'weird' and 'oddball' yielded nothing, so I tried 'underslung engines'.

Down the list, there was the obvious candidate - no pic in Aerofiles, but it sounded right, then I too found Ferry's site by Googling, and there she was !

Just to let you know how a devious mind works.......


By the way - how did I know it was American ? It just had to be !
 
Also known as the Tellier T.7 (Tellier designations vary from source to source - typically French)

Three 350hp Lorraines, hence presumably the 1100.

:icon29:to Moses.
 
I like those push-pull flying boats of that era. Stylish to say the least.

How about a monoplane...
 
and that led me to the Jacuzzi. No, not a hot-tub, but the Jacuzzi J-7 Reo/Rio

... which looks better in any other pic than Kevin's, although his is rather moody and artistic..
 
You got it Rob. (Beer smiley is not working- my apologies!) It seems to me those long wing struts would not help much but apparently it flew rather well. I think Lefty was being a bit modest here on spotting this one...

Over to the Great White North-
 
Developed as a possible future production a/c...

the designer also worked with/for a very famous design shop, the principle of which is about to receive a major tribute...

The person who commissioned the design also bears a famous a/c manufacturing name...
 
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