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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Thought this was Russian, and there she was on page one of Gunstons. Bezobrazov Triplane of 1914. Listed as a fighter!
 
Here is a contemporary of the Bezobrazov. An oddball in it's own right.

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As it doesn't have a propeller, and has wings made of recycled cornflake packets, is this another April 1 special ??????
 
Real, and did fly a couple of times.

The engine is running in the first photo. Note the tail section that is attached by a ball joint.
 
The tailwheel was spring mounted, ahead of it's time. The metal machine made a couple of flights in the Niagara Falls area...

The investors did not think they were getting their money's worth so they started taking parts of the plane to sell off...starting with the carburetor! Eventually it disappeared.
 
Presumably the 'tail unit' went back to the washing machine whence it came......

People really invested in that ?????
 
The only thing I can find to match is the Weidmann Flying Tank - 'reportedly flew'

Aye, right*, as we say in Scotland - that's what the 'investors' were told.......:monkies:


(*You know how two negatives make a positive - well this Glasgow term is the only known example of two positives conveying a negative!)
 
Not Yourfeng, Walter,but Mifeng (as I'm sure you knew :applause:) In fact, the Mifeng-11 from the Beijing Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. :icon29:
 
Hi Mike!
I knew this one, but since you were so kind to supply me with info on the Mifeng-11 a couple of weeks ago, I called it the Yourfeng in the hope other members would react.
To be honest (which I try to be most of the time), I wanted the chance to post this floater (amphibious) parked in the back yard. It was twin engined (the cowlings are still on top of the wings) with tractor props. I have reasons to believe the mystery aircraft was actually flight tested.
I have a sketch which gives a better idea of how it looked like and will post that later.
 

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No takers?
The aircraft is US and may have been completed around 1969/1970. The picture was taken in 1985 and I cordially invite better photos of this one-of-a-kind twin :encouragement:.
 
Hi Mike :jump:
As far as I know no relationship with the VJ-22. The aircraft is the RB-1 by Mr. Richard M. Becker and it was registered as N7991. The RB-1 had two Lycoming O-290 engines and the wings and tail surfaces stemmed from a Stinson 108.
Understrand it last was in the hands of the Walter Soplata Aviation collection in Newbury (Cleveland), Ohio.

This is a sketch I found (hope it works).
 

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Right, we'll chuck in a not-too-difficult one to get things moving again - here's a rather pleasant twin -
 
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