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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Aero A.204 airliner prototype

lost CSA contract to Airspeed Oxford

further developed into the A.304 light bomber

following is Google translation of Czech text...
Aero A-204
Aerovka has done this in the original project envisaged a machine equipped with two motors Walter "Castrol Super" after power 316 kW (430 hp), with retractable landing gear and cruising speed of over 250 km / h Already in March 1936 was completed prototype designated as A-204 (OK-matriculation marking BAA). The machine was successful but suffered podmotorováním because of the CSA Director Ing. Stočes insisted on the installation of older and weaker engines Walter "Pollux" II. after power 265 kW (360 hp). Company Aero installing these old engines resisted, but finally decided to "our customer is always right." Aero A-204 was simple and elegant, well thought out with an aircraft fuselage frame lattice of steel tubes, accompanied by body shape into an oval cross-section. The wings were all-wood, girder. The machine was equipped with acoustic and thermal insulation for the convenience of passengers, the whole was then covered with a cloth impregnated. One problem was the landing gear, because with him at Aerovky not experience. Therefore, it ordered the French company Messier. While that has been regarded as an expert in this field, but in the case of A-204 completely disappointed with delivery deadlines. A-204 prototype flew so aerodynamically shaped with a fixed undercarriage. Landing gear could be installed until July 1936, after more than four months slip fa Messier. Tests A-204 has undergone in the VTLÚ Letňany and evaluation was more than positive. Especially appreciated was easy takeoff and landing, good stability, safe handling in all flight modes. She was then transferred to A-204 CSA exam to pass and commissions. Approval of A-204 is continually dragged on until finally in February 1937 the CSA announced that a machine not interested. Aerovka was surprised because the machine got Letňany good and fully meet all the CSA requested. For all apparently been lobbying again, because the CSA from the UK purchased four similar machines Airspeed AS-6 "Envoy". These British machine then flew on the route Prague-Moscow. Model A-204 still participated in the national air show in Prague in 1937, as well as the unsuccessful fighter Aero A-102.
 
BH-44 aka E-44 :guinness:

" Compared to the previous model series BH (described machine is also often denoted as BH-44) E-44 had a number of new features, such as all-wood wing elliptical ground plan, the skeleton of the hull welded from steel pipes, semi-self-faired landing gear, etc."

another Czech, different book :applause: but at least it wasn't the Grainy-Moses Book of Horrors
 
A homebuilt from the Scottish Senior Citizens' Home for the Aviationally Challenged? Made from scavenged wheelchair and bed parts?
 
I'll ignore the barbs -although I did say it was curious ! Wout will have it in an instant - but you guys will get it instantly when I tell you it was a modified version of this one :jump:

Hint - do you see a vague similarity to something much older ??? (these were built in 2001)
 
OK, time to move on. These were built in Turkey to recreate a Bleriot XI long-distance flight of 1914 (Istanbul-Damascus-Jerusalem-Cairo-Alexandria)

They were built by THK - the basic one called AK-01X, and the later two, which actually made the flight, AK-2000X.

Seems an odd exercise, almost as whimsical as the machines they built.

OH, please, chaps.
 
Since Moses hasn't spewed forth a grainy horror I guess I might as well.

Couldn't find a previous visitation from this bulldog-ugly beast in the forum
 
Rob, old boy, take it from an unscrupulous Scotsman that you really shouldn't leave the registration number on your posts........
 
Just as an aside on the Turkish long distance flight in 1914 - I've just finished reading about it in this months (Dec 2012) Aeroplane Monthly.
Couple of pilots were killed during the expedition. There was also a Deperdussin.
Keith
 
lefty said:
Rob, old boy, take it from an unscrupulous Scotsman that you really shouldn't leave the registration number on your posts........
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Mike, I am well aware that some are more conniving than others but I thought your eyes would blur with the grain :icon_lol:

Baragouin said:
This hornless rhino is a Crawford CLM of 1931....unsurprisingly only one item was built...
Baragouin
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Tis indeed the Crawford (Corrugated Lumpy Monster?) :icon29:

All yours B!
 
That was a pic I had found in Popular Science or some such from the 1930's and cleaned up. Here are some other photos I have collected over time on the CLM.
 
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