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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

I toyed with "Twin Ducted Fan Homebuilt Aircraft" in the Google search field - your machine pops up, but mostly in a ducted fan thread on a Homebuilt Aircraft forum and the guy who posts all the photos is Russian(?) and it's hard to decipher...

Something called a PJ-II?
 
Hi Mr. Green :encouragement:
Excellent research :applause:! Indeed the PJ-II (PistonJet II) from Russia. Registration is RA-2152G and I think the designers/builders are Ben Kolitilin and Misha Nikitin from the Volgograd Region. Engine/fan package is an GM LS6 developed in USA by Team-38, Inc.
For those interested, further info can be found on
hxxp://www.homebuiltairplanes.com/forums/aircraft-design-aerodynamics-new-technology/12408-ducted-fan-aircraft-17.html (a lot of pages with info/pics, so be patient)
and video of first flight on youtu.be/vGD0LUFwvYQ

Your turn, Sir!
 
Thanks Wout!

Nice looking machine - has a Sukhoi look to it.

Not so modern...
 

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Hello boys and girls!
I ignore the name of Green's autogyro.....however I'm taking a 13 day break direction salubrious Adria coast (it used to be a german crowded resort now a russian crowded resort with a charter flight coming in daily from mother Russia).
I'll talk with you again Aug. 1st.
Till then all the best....
Cheers
BG
 
Moses03 said:
Not well versed with these veggie-slicers. Guessing Western Europe 1920's.
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Hi Moses.

The veggie-slicer was built in a garage in Perth, Scotland. The engine is an ABC Scorpion and it flew in 1932 being extensively tested at RAF Leuchars. It performed well and the two gents involved moved on to build a bigger and better veggie-slicer...
 
Green being very generous with the clues has led me to the Kay Type 32/1 Gyroplane. Even with all that I still had a time tracking down a photo to doublecheck!
 
Enjoy your trip BG!


This one is a little grainy but that has never slowed you all down.

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This is indeed the pile of SRAP. Well spotted PH.:very_drunk:

Would not have wanted to be the pilot sitting in the open cockpit at the top of the thing!
 
Thank you, Moses. With a little lateral thinking, that aeroplane wasn't too difficult to identify. The cowlings shout SPAD. And when it became evident that it wasn't a SPAD, the next thought was the designer of the early SPADs. And once I had Louis Béchereau, the rest was relatively easy!

Here's something that looks like many aeroplanes dating from the thirties. It may look familiar, but it isn't what it looks like!

 
Well done, lefty. Comte is exactly the manufacturer of the aeroplane that this looks like but isn't! However the aeroplane that it isn't has close connections with that which it is!
 
Enigmatic as ever, PH - you left an 'H' in the picture which could indicate that it might still be a Swiss machine, but which one, ah dinna ken.....
 
With sorrow, I must confess that the H was left by oversight rather than a desire to be enigmatic! However it is indeed a Swiss aeroplane and in your original suggestion, lefty, you were well on the road to giving this aeroplane its true identity. I'm sure that if you stick to that road, you'll get it, sooner or later!

If anything is enigmatic, it's the particular aeroplane depicted. My brief research seems to indicate that it started life as one thing, and ended life as the same, but it wasn't that, apparently, at the time this photograph was taken!
 
No, it's not a Comte - either AC-8 or AC-12 or AC anything else. Just start there and then think outside the envelope. There aren't that many Swiss manufacturers.
 
Perseverance pays! It is the 1935 Farner WF.21/C4. Sources say that it was a four seater aeroplane based on or developed from the three seater Comte AC.4 Gentleman. HB-AFA is the example illustrated. The Swiss Register suggests that it started life as an AC.4 and then metamorphosed into the WF.21, before appearing on the French CNRA register post-war as F-PBXT - where it is recorded as an home built Comte AC.4. It's a funny old world, innit - although this is nothing like as funny as the aeroplane that Willi Farner came up with in 1943!
 
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