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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Just done a recheck on google & yes the DB70 it is. The source I used initially said it was the DB10 which its nothing like that picture. Over to you PM.
Keith
 
Thank you, Dev One. If you'd care to call to collect it, I've just poured you a glass of my homemade Clochard cider!

To keep the ball rolling, here's an innovative monoplane - which took its designer to his maker!

 
Looks like an Udet design but he took his own life so that can't be it. Tail markings are washed out but appear to be French??
 
Perhaps it's time for a clue - or several. This aeroplane was a three seater, but only one of those seats - that of the pilot - was within the fuselage. As to it's name, that was a combination of those of the constructor, the designer and the engine. And the photograph posted apparently was taken immediately prior to its demise. Now back to you, gents.
 
It's British and dates from the twenties. It's contended that there's a connection between its designer and the Short Cockle. If it remains unidentified at the end of the evening, I'll put those who are interested out of their misery then.
 
The very same! The pilot sat in the middle and the passengers were to have sat in the holes cut into the Hawk's exceedingly thick wing roots. Fortunately no passengers occupied the holes at the time or the crash of the Hawk could have cost three, rather than one, lives. One view is that it was turbulence caused by these holes that caused the Hawk to dive in. Another is that the high lift wing caused the aircraft to stall in a turn, followed by the nose dropping. Yet a third is that Travers tried to use the aileron to compensate for a wing drop and that this led to an incipient spin. Whatever, the Hawk apparently crashed in flames and Travers was killed (one report says that this was caused by him leaping from the plummeting aeroplane before it hit the ground). Apparently the whole story is told in an article which appeared in the Aeroplane of July 2001 if anyone has that. Anyhow, as Dev One has not yet called to collect his glass of Clochard cider, you are most welcome to that, Lefty!
 
(glug)..very refreshing too, ph..........thank you ! (could you arrange for a small cask to be sent to my local ????)

Another boom-boomer for those wot like 'em - this one lurking in the mist -
 

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Thanks Lefty!

I only had one photo to work with so I went with that and the spelling...

Getting late here so I'll declare open house.

Cheers!
 

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Here is one from a company that didn't design just a whole lot of biplanes.

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