The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[srgalahad]

Well, since no no else is leaping into the breach, I'll offer this zippy little beast ( which, I think appeared here some moons ago)

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[lefty]

Indeed it did, and still looks good. It's the Partenavia P-55 Tornado. Just love the big boy-racer exhaust.

 

[lefty]

If you don't mind, Rob, I'll press on.

How about, just for a change, a low-wing four-seater ??

 

[Moses03]

I did a search for a low wing 4-seater airplane and your photo didn't show up. I give up.

Seriously, it looks European but then I never have much to go on with these types. Maybe the same feeling Wout gets when he sees a 1920's era biplane.

 

[lefty]

European is right on, which doubtless Wout will confirm shortly ! A one-off, but to professional standards.

 

[wout]

Glad to see that my "love" for low wing 4-seaters is contagious.
This beauty is the German LFU-205 of 1968. A very early example of a composite material construction. The BIG 3 (in W. Germany, that is) at the time had formed the LFU consortium and each company (MBB, RFB and Putzer) made parts and components and MBB did the final assembly of the aircraft. It had a 200hp Lycoming and was also tested bny the W.Gerrman Research Institute for Aerospace. The registration was D-ELFU

 

[lefty]

Don't think there is any more to add after that ! to Wout.

 

[wout]

how about a nice single hole biplane?
I think it is smaller than it looks on the pic.

 

[Dev One]

Don't recognise it as a Comper product, but it looks very similar to one - Pobjoy an' all.
Keith

 

[wout]

Hi Keith,
sorry I donot know what engine is fitted. Quite possible you are correct about the Pobjoy since it was a small biplane. Origin is mainland Europa.
PS: I could not find technical info on this bird.

 

[jhefner]

Don't know either, but that propeller makes me think there is four or more huge rubber bands running down the middle of it, and you have to wind it 10 million times before takeoff....

 

[wout]

Maybe too much of a mystery aircraft.:ques:
This biplane is the Kuhelj KS-1b Janez from Slovenia (YU-PDF). The only time I saw it in a "Western" publication is the 1953 edition of the Green & Pollinger`s Aircraft of the World". They had the KS-1C version under Letov.

Suggest OH please

 

[Moses03]

Slovenia? Boy, was I on the wrong trail.

From one obscurity to another, a push-pull wingie...



(Lefty is going to let me have it on this one).

 

[Moses03]

From the 1940's.


Happy Thanksgiving! We are off to stuff ourselves silly over at my brother's place with their family.:mixedsmi:

 

[lefty]

I like the idea of the guy firing his 'high power machine gun' through the rear prop. Must have been spectacular.

This is comic book stuff, surely ?

 

[Moses03]

Granted, this one is on the fringe of what we post here but thought it was interesting. It's the McKellar M-1 from 1940. It was a testbed for the larger fighter that never materialized.

Moving along with something more conventional...

 

[lefty]

Could that be a Japanese uniform ?

 

[Ferry_vO]

Could this be the Mitsubishi 1MF5A (Navy designation Type 10-2); Carrier trainer version with jettisonable wheeled undercarriage and floats under wings to allow safe ditching.

 

[srgalahad]

Could this be the Mitsubishi 1MF5A (Navy designation Type 10-2); Carrier trainer version with jettisonable wheeled undercarriage and floats under wings to allow safe ditching.

Looks likely Ferry. One thing not mentioned in the references I found is what appears, in Moses' picture, to be a "boat hull" addition under the forward fuselage.. another possible flotation mod?
If it is the 1MF5a then it has another interesting bit in it's history...the original model was: [FONT=Verdana, Arial][SIZE=-1]"One of three types designed by Herbert Smith, formerly of the British Sopwith company, to meet requirements issued by the Imperial Japanese Navy for aircraft to equip its first aircraft-carrier[/SIZE][/FONT]"

 

[Moses03]

Wrong part of the world. Not of the Orient...