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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

I'm fairly sure the one on the left was the first one. I had a link to an article about them but it went dead. :frown:
 
Good evening to all of you!
an easy one for a relaxing evening (or morning or afternoon)....I only hope it wasn't shown before....
Cheers
BG
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Crickey!

That one should be a Morane-Saulnier Criquet
That was a Storch with a radial engine produced by the post-WW2 MS factories
 
Thank you Baragouin.
The next challenge is a little different: the unit.
There is no credit for identifying a B-17, but the unit which used this marking.
Which unit, where, when?
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I thought this was one of those early B-17E's that was painted up with a quickie 4-color scheme for wargames. Nope.

In digging around it looks to be with unit "69 tajeset" for the Israeli Air Force in 1948.


Interesting story lifted from here: http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww2/b/439/89/0#2

"Unit: 69 tajeset "Hammers", IDF/AF
Serial: 1602
Ramat David, 1948. Early in 1948 an Israeli Purchase Team in the United States discovered four B-17s on a dump in Florida and bought them for the IAF. The aircraft were in a very poor condition having been stripped of the turrets and instruments and left to the elements. A team of engineers set to with sheet metal and plywood and brought them up to flying condition. Three were made airworthy and these flew via the Azores to Zatek in Czechoslovakia, where supply flights were being loaded for Israel. Here the B-17s were given additional and better instruments and were loaded with bombs for their final flight to Israel. On their way to Israel, the aircraft diverted to Egypt where one bombed Cairo and the other two bombed Egyptian positions in Sinai. The Boeing B-17s were given numbers H1 (1601), H2 (1602) and H3 (1603). As H2 (1602) was in the worst condition, it was given a complete, but rather crude re-paint, in a four-colour Light Brown, Dark Brown, Light Green and Dark Green disruptive camouflage pattern on the uppersurfaces with light Bluish Grey undersurfaces. The Mickey Mouse cartoon was on both sides of the fin. The Magen David national insignia was in six positions, and the serial number was in blue."



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I join dan pub in congratulating with you Moses on the story of the israeli B17, a very exciting story which was totally unknown to me.....any possibility of discovering on the net a picture of those B17 with israreli insignias?
Baragouin
 
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