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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Thanks Walter - I drank a lot of that stuff on my travels - gosh I'm getting warm just thinking about it - better cool things down a bit..........
 
Thanks Walter - I drank a lot of that stuff on my travels - gosh I'm getting warm just thinking about it - better cool things down a bit..........

Finally one I know...this is the Valtion Lentokonetehdas VL VIIMA I with closed cabin and Siemens Halske Sh14A
Cheers
Baragouin

very very refreshing pic...38 degrees Celsius and going up today
 
Baragouin, I'm feeling magnanimous today (after a couple of ciders) so will donate a :icon29: to cool you down a bit.

HOWEVER, your answer is sketchy and incorrect, other than that it is basically a Viima !

This is a conversion (OH-VKJ) by the Karhumaki company of Kuorvesi, and apart from the totally altered, enclosed cockpit, has a lengthened fuselage and a 150hp Bramo Sh14 motor.
Don't think anyone else was going to get that, so please proceed......

38 is too hot for civilised people. Move to Scotland.
 
Baragouin, I'm feeling magnanimous today (after a couple of ciders) so will donate a :icon29: to cool you down a bit.

HOWEVER, your answer is sketchy and incorrect, other than that it is basically a Viima !

This is a conversion (OH-VKJ) by the Karhumaki company of Kuorvesi, and apart from the totally altered, enclosed cockpit, has a lengthened fuselage and a 150hp Bramo Sh14 motor.
Don't think anyone else was going to get that, so please proceed......

38 is too hot for civilised people. Move to Scotland.

OK Lefty thanks for the additional infos of which I was partly unaware.
However it is today 40 degrees and it is just too hot to concentrate on new enigmas.
Please bear with me till after sunset (which is in about six hours from now) when it cools down for a new offer
Cheers
Baragouin
 
OK Lefty thanks for the additional infos of which I was partly unaware.
However it is today 40 degrees and it is just too hot to concentrate on new enigmas.
Please bear with me till after sunset (which is in about six hours from now) when it cools down for a new offer
Cheers
Baragouin
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I hope this forum accepts profiles therefore I take the liberty of submitting it as next offer and thanks for your patience
Baragouin
 
Baragouin- Can you scare up a photo for the mystery floater? I don't think the profile is going over so well.
 
My feeling was Russia, but, maybe further east ????

Lefty and Moses your feeling is driving you in the right direction. A couple of clues:
- country is Russia
- year is 1973-74
- she was built by a team of six.

One more clue: her name is eponymous to a town of the baltic states. There...you have her now!
Baragouin
 
Lefty and Moses your feeling is driving you in the right direction. A couple of clues:
- country is Russia
- year is 1973-74
- she was built by a team of six.

One more clue: her name is eponymous to a town of the baltic states. There...you have her now!
Baragouin

To help you out further here's a colour pic of item in question
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Baragouin
 
Hmmmmmmmm. No idea on the aircraft, but I wonder what the idea of the upper wing was? A Slat, therefore not stalling so easily??
Keith
 
Moses, Very many thanks for the link - very interesting & never heard of him or the effect before. Pity about the horrible translation for the control system though - don't understand a thing there, but will follow up elsewhere.
Again thank you.
Keith

[edit]
Been searching & found less that that on the link above, but as far as I can interpret the true Knoller-Betz effect requires the wing/s to oscillate about their lateral axis producing vortices & hence some thrust, so maybe there is another line of inquiry into the other name mentioned that I can't remember at the mo!
Still very interesting.
Keith
 
Hi Kevin :salute:
What could be expected from the master. Not only the correct answer, but also additional info :icon29:
Attached the original photo, showing that the occupying forces were also interested.
 
No, the Master hails from the lowlands. I just sweep up at night and turn the lights out before locking up.

Here is a real work of art. The origin should be plenty obvious...

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