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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Hmm, those head on views can be tough. My gut reaction is something from the UK in service over in the Middle East...
 
I'm thinking it's not British forces despite the battle dress tunics being very similar to the British standard issue for WWII and the pilot's 'wings' being very similar to the RAF one. The RAF never had forage caps for officers ('other ranks' wore them prior to and during WWII) and they certainly never wore jodhpurs nor carried cavalry swords except for ceremonial purposes.

I'm thinking India maybe either just prior to WWII (although it would still have been under British rule then) or just after.

As to the aircraft, it has some similarities to the Swordfish but I think it's earlier than that.
 
Well you are both on the right track - this next pic should give it away although I've removed one bit of insignia.

By the way, Larry, I don't think they actually wore the swords in the cockpits..........:rolleyes:
 
Salaams, oh wise one.... of course alcohol is forbidden in Iraq so it's a sarsaparilla for Texas..........:guinness:
 
First reaction is that this pantalooned project is French, but I can't find it.....

The beaming tanned gentleman is a sheet-metal-working apprentice who hasn't yet been told that he has failed miserably.
 
Is it some sort of Caproni nightmare ? Or a Transylvanian horror ?

No American panel-beater would be seen dead beside a mess like that, surely.....................
 
I think this has to be the Huff-Daland or Keystone XB-1B, although what the difference is I know not ! Moses will reveal all ?????
 
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