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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

lefty said:
Vivid indeed - BG on the ball yet again.......:very_drunk:


That float strut setup just doesn't look right at all......
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Yes Lefty you are right! Please compare the above pic shown on airwar.ru re the same Aircraft.....the float strut setup looks quite different together with a few minor details....anyway this is the beauty of this hobby: you are liable to find something new and unexpected all the time...
Later in the afternoon I'll submit a new enigma...
Cheers
BG
 
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Come on guys, should not be that difficult
It is not a biplane, it does not have a radial engine, so....:dizzy:
 
Walter's probably right -a monoplane with non-radial motor tends to rule out America, and it looks a bit Germanic to me, but I can't find it.

Moses is lurking, though, and I feel an answer imminent.....
 
Looks like BG is going to go all 15 rounds. Thankfully page 601 of Polish Aircraft 1893-1939 yielded a clue...this the D.K.D.1 of 1926? Powered by a 30hp Haacke two-cylinder engine that exploded in flight right after take-off!
 
Moses03 said:
Looks like BG is going to go all 15 rounds. Thankfully page 601 of Polish Aircraft 1893-1939 yielded a clue...this the D.K.D.1 of 1926? Powered by a 30hp Haacke two-cylinder engine that exploded in flight right after take-off!
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Well done Moses! It is indeed the Dzialowski DKD-I of 1926 fitted with a very unreliable Haacke engine....with the debris of the DKD-I Dzialowski built one more Aircraft the DKD-III (using same wing and tail) fitted this time with a more reliable Anzani and registered as P-PAWD.
Your turn now Moses and compliments for solving this mystery which wasn't at all easy:icon29:
BG
http://www.samolotypolskie.pl/samoloty/719/126/Centralne-Warsztaty-Lotnicze-CWL2
For further information on all polish aircrafts see above link but be sure to use translator because it is strictly in polish....
 
A strange Nieuport from 1913.....this one has always interested me - the booms were made from Bakelite-impregnated cardboard !

Here's another pic....
 
Thanks - the photo is from Ray Sanger's 'Nieuport Aircraft of World War One' (which has a chapter on earlier designs) - the reason this doesn't look like a Nieuport is that it was probably designed by the Astra company around the time of their amalgamation with Nieuport.

Here's a nice neat little twin racer - I've a horrible feeling this has been posted before but can't find it.
 
The Germans really had a thing for parasol aircraft with the engine(s) mounted on top at that time it seems.. Found several quite similar designs in my files!

A new one:

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Yep! :icon29:

The De Monge 1914 Experimental parasol, also known as the 'live wing', an experiment to create an 'automatically stable' aircraft by using flexible and pivoting wings. According to test pilot reports it worked quite well.
 
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