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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

I thought it was an LWD design at first. Wish we could get some FS modelers to work on a few of his planes! I like the F.K.44 and F.K.57 especially.
Here is a grainy floater. Have a lot of floaters in the queue...
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Moses03 said:
I thought it was an LWD design at first. Wish we could get some FS modelers to work on a few of his planes! I like the F.K.44 and F.K.57 especially.
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Me too, but sadly most information was lost when the factory was bombed during WW2. Most photos still available are already floating around the internet and it will be hard, if not impossible to find accurate drawings or interior photos.
 
my god...where do you guys find this stuff?...id like to "play"..but while im scratching my forehead in confusion.....yall are already answering,in a discussion and moved on to the next plane....:dizzy:
 
These photos come from all over the place; books, old magazines, newspapers, internet trolls, other forums, dusty steamer trunks etc.:biggrin-new:

Lefty is of course spot on with the Potez.:very_drunk:

Over to the Scotsman-
 
Daveroo said:
my god...where do you guys find this stuff?...id like to "play"..but while im scratching my forehead in confusion.....yall are already answering,in a discussion and moved on to the next plane....:dizzy:
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As Moses says the pics come from a lot of musty places. While some are found on the internet, many more come from extensive collections of old books and photos we've been stashing away on groaning bookshelves.

Part of the 'secret' to identifying them is that most of us have been at it for ages and so we tend to recognize traits and 'family resemblances' that lead us to countries, builders, foggy memories of pictures-once-seen. The amazing thing is that of the thousands of aircraft posted in here over the years, very few have been accidentally ( or intentionally) repeated. One can fill many hundreds of hours learning the 100-year history of aircraft.

Actually, this is a 'gentle' contest. A few of the sites that indulge in this insane activity show only small parts of the aircraft and then make you figure out the source, like this one... http://www.dauntless-soft.com/aviaquiz/quizarchive.asp?id=133
or this... http://www.dauntless-soft.com/aviaquiz/quizarchive.asp?id=124

:adoration:
Even if you can't identify an aircraft before the "pros", it's a great place to learn about what went before...
 
How about this one, Daveroo ?? As usual, I've obscured the markings on this chunky big brute.......
 
Notice all those chaps in a huddle, keeping well away - d'you think their mummies told them not to go near levasseur..... ??? :a1310:
 
Thanks Moses
this is my today's challenge.
The proposed Aircraft is very common but in the early fifties it was refurbished and became a single seater (it normally was a two seater) .....besides in the early forties it was the personal Aircraft of a well known manufacturer.....
BG
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