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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Deathly silence tells all. Enough is enough.

This is the Ruttiens, designed by Ferdinand of the same name. An early VTOL (yes!) experiment from Belgium. Cute.

OH please, gentlemen.
 
Rob, you wouldn't really expect a Scotsman to miss this one, would you ? (sings quick chorus of 'I belong to Glasgow........')

It's the Beardmore XXVI.

I could give you chapter and verse on this one - for instance, the fixed guns were of the Beardmore-Farquhar type - (take that, you Farquhar !) - and it was demonstrated by Capt A.N.Kingswill to have sensationally poor performance and great handling. Still ugly though. And didn't impress the Latvians.
 
Almost felt arctic yesterday.. had to work in the AM and it was no better than 6*C in rain. Got home (against my will) to a weekend garage sale so I was a bit hors-de-combat . Of course you're right about the Beardmore-or-less - I had to toss it out after your disappointment at missing the previous one :icon_lol:

so... :icon29:
 
Dearie me - winter has returned to Canada ? Thank you for the generous thought, Rob.

Here's a sesquiplane - have a feeling it's been posted before but can't track it down.
 
Spot on, Naki. :icon29:

Don't know how I could post an Argentinian number after what they did to us in Wellington. Trust you are enjoying the rugby more than me ! Shame about Dan, though.........
 
Scotland wre unlucky to progress. I'm picking Wales to be in the final - they look good. Hopefully we are there too even without Dan. Have to contend with SA first I think as I don't think Argentina will too much problem for the ABs and Australia look shaky..anyway I digress.

mystery-2.jpg
 
Naki, if you search back, you will find that this very distinctive machine has made more than one appearance in this forum before !
 
OK, so this one is obscure. The country of origin can be determined if you can identify the large aircraft in the background, which has a very distinctive feature.

Dave
 
I have a fondness for these types- especially the odd ones like this canard pusher on four wheels. That hasn't helped to find it though.
 
I think we'll let this one follow its original fate.

This is the 1916 tailless biplane designed and built by Fred Parker.

It crashed on its first attemnpted flight, was repaired, and crashed again on its second.

It crashed here too, so we move on.

OH please
 
OK.. it's American (the Curtiss style 'ailerons')

I've figured out 'big brother' in the rear, but can't quite get a name for the flying "pram"
 
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