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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Had a gut feeling it was a Brit.


Let's see if Wout is lurking about with this sporty single...

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Hi Kevin :salute:
I am still figuring out how to get this thing passed the Houston Ship Channel.

I knew the plane, I knew the (approximate) year, just a minor detail such as the name.
Then your 1955 clue helped.
This it the Hatfield (HAECO) Hornet by Cliff and Bob Hatfield. N23K later got a C85 engine.
 
Thanks Walter - you generously provided the vital clue. It is the V.55 from Aero Tehnicki Zavod, in what used to be Yugoslavia. (Zagreb was in Croatia at the last reckoning....)

Incidentally, my pic is of YU-CMR, slightly different paint job.
 
Hi Mike :salute:
The V-55 it is, by the Zagreb Aero Club . Also often reported as the Vajic V-55.
Seems that not 3, but 4 were built as YU-CMR (the prototype), YU-CXE, CXF and CXG.
Later CXG became the sole V-55L after it had been re-engined with a 150hp Lycoming O-320 replacing the 105 hp Walter Mikron 4-III.
Still figuring out the whole story, as there may also have been a replica (or restored earlier example?) with registration YU-ZAA
:icon29::guinness:
 
Should have been a capital 'D' - the most popular Belgian ale (after the dreaded Stella, of course).

Here's a nice easy one..

(Sorry about the reg mistake - too many Duvels :isadizzy:)
 
It certainly looks like it having Googled it! What interested me though was the 'handed' air intakes on each wing for the engines - unusual methinks if all the engines were the same variety! ( Mind you nothing surprises me in French design anymore!)
Keith
 
It may be something to do with the fact that (I think) the inner and outer engines were of opposite rotations ?? My schoolboy French is inadequate - 'moteurs supraconvergents' - maybe Walter can oblige whilst quaffing his ale :icon29: ?
 
Hi Mike, Hi Keith :salute:
Keith, thanks for bringing the different intakes under our attention. I never noticed this before. Learning every day!
One explanation I could give is as follows: The Nord 1001/1002 and Nord 1100 were built with Renault 6Q-10 and 6Q-11 engines, the difference being a r/h turning prop (N-1001/N-1101 with 6Q-10) or a l/h prop (N-1002/N-1102 with 6Q-11). I reckon the location of the air inlet was therefore adjusted for optimum cooling.
In the SE-1210 engines the are reported as Renault 6Q-20 and -21. My assumption is that this was for the same reason.


Next challenge will follow a.s.a.p.
 
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