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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Thanks you. Have to confess to having to look up marzen, with which I wasn't familiar. (what?, I hear you cry, an old soak like lefty doesn't know his drinks??). I was always in Germany later in the year, around Oktober time. More of that another time........

What it this camouflaged oddball, please ?
 
One I can actually recognise!
Miles 'Gillette' Falcon - test a/c for the Miles M52 wing. Apparently the wing leading edges were razor sharp!
Keith
 
I need to track down an affordable copy of Gunston's Russian book. The pic that Lefty posted got me all excited. Great stuff!
 
:icon29:to Dev One for the Falcon with the tattie-slicing wings.

Kevin, I actually have two copies of Gunston's book - I was keeping one for a rainy day, but it probably would cost a small fortune to get it to you anyway.

I'll keep my eyes open - nothing is moving on the Bay at all over here - from memory the last Russian Aircraft went for a relatively small amount.
 
Maybe I've just been holding this one in reserve for so long that I THOUGHT it had been posted before..

but anyway, it's the Allied A2 of 1948
 
Very interesting Moses. The mystery plane looks similar to the aircraft Douglas Rolfe sketched in Airplanes Of The World. It was identified only as "Schneider, two 500-h.p. Loraine engines."

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Close as I can get so far.
 
Not the Schneider but a good effort anyways.

What puzzles me about the photo is that it looks Japanese at first glance with those markings but is not from Asia.
 
Yes, despite what appears to be Hinomaru markings, I have never seen anything like it in Japanese references.
But it certainly fits the French multiplaces de combat catagory. But then again, it looks more Russian than French. Grokhovskii perhaps (if only I had a Putnams).
 
Don't think Putnams could help here - looks not much like the Grokhovskii G-38 drawings I have found so far....
 
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