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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.

Bit of luck - I could see where BG was coming from, then the tail looked a bit familiar - nice photo, haven't seen that one before.

Here's a floater - easy meat for the regulars......
 
Hi Lefty!
This is easy indeed! Liorè&Olivier LeO H23 of 1930, two aircrafts built....
Open house please as I'm leaving July 1st for holidays for a couple of weeks and tomorrow is going to be a hectic day....
Cheers....see you later
BG
 
Correct, of course, BG :icon29: You mentioned two prototypes -I think there were actually three, although my French is letting me down a bit. This H-23 was the only monoplane version, and two subsequent variants, called H-23-2, were in effect completely different aircraft, being sesquiplanes with pusher motors!

Anyway, have a great holiday, BG, - I hope it is as relaxing and therapeutic as holidays should be ! (I shall be in Italy in September but sadly nowhere near Tuscany....)

Anyone willing to enter the fray ????
 
Here is a fancy machine.


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The silence doesn't mean we are ignoring you, dear boy.

I, for one, am getting absolutely nowhere with this one, which looks irritatingly familiar...

One more teensy-weensy clue, maybe ?????
 
This is a license built one-off, modified for trans-atlantic flight. Powered by a 600 hp Hispano-Suiza 12 cylinder engine. It went missing in 1933.
 
OK, give us enough clues.....the license-built Breguet 19T Bidon. No wonder it wasn't in Aerofiles. :banghead:
 
Seems such a shame that they got the hard bit done, i.e getting to Cuba, and then disappeared on the short leg.

If they had had one of these at least they could have landed on the water..
 
Here's the same machine before the moths got at the upper wing. It will also reveal that Moses is in the right country !

A one-off manufacturer, but a batch of 20 were produced, with 280hp Renaults - they proved less popular with their crews than the Donnet-Denhaut and George Levy machines......
 
Well I suppose that, like Britain, not only did they have a lot of coastline to protect, but they had all those faraway colonies...

I think that's why I have always loved flying boats - the thought of flying away to somewhere exotic, and landing in a sleepy lagoon - just waiting for those dusky maidens to paddle out........

I suspect in reality it was cold, very noisy and WET !
 
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