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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Lefty is on track with the one-off American. Of note, the designer was the first to build and fly a powered aeroplane in his original country.
 
Interesting Watson, but I'm clueless


Actually that odd tail looks familiar but it's -17C (4*F) and my brain is frozen..
 
Boy I wish we could get a taste of the cold here!

This one was built for a late 1920's competition but failed for not meeting certain flying qualities.
 
There's a sadistic streak in our Texan friend - he's turning the thumbscrews very slowly on this one, and is determined that we trawl through every entry in Aerofiles only to find it ain't there at all........:banghead:
 
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Okay, this is the Alfaro X-13. It was one of the 1928 Guggenheim entrants. Prior to this Heraclio Alfaro had been the first to build and fly in Spain.

Here is something younger...

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Good digging, Moses ......:icon29: (dearie me, I wish some clever person would sort those smileys out. It takes me forever to find the beer.)
 
Sorry not much help - cannot find anything fitted with an ADC Cirrus II that fits a description of the aircraft, let alone a photo, on the web that is!
Although it looks a tad familiar!
Keith
 
Okay, this one has fallen through the cracks of time it would seem. It is the Wibault 340 or Wibault-Penhoet 340. About the smallest design they built.

Open board please-
 

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