The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[wout]

Hi MIke
A member of the Farman F-500/F-522 family?

 

[lefty]

Hi MIke
A member of the Farman F-500/F-522 family?

Walter - for a man who can normally tell us not only the registration ,but who was flying it and what he had for breakfast, this is a trifle vague !

The exact model number, please, before I release the foaming glass - I'm pouring it now !

 

[wout]

Thank you Mike
If you would force me and twist my arm behind my back, I would say the F-521 (F-WVGQ)

 

[lefty]

See, I told you ! Spot-on as usual - the 'Monitor III' -

 

[wout]

Thank you Mike
Sadly never flew in one, but at least I saw one (the Belgian SR-7B) at an airshow in the mid-1950s.
Next challenge is a light twin. Sorry for the somewhat grainy picture

 

[wout]

Twin is from USA and Stanley had nothing to do with it

 

[lefty]

I'll bite on your clue, Walter. Would this be the Livingston Double Eagle ? Fits the Aerofiles description.......

 

[wout]

Hi Mike
Are my clues too easy or are you simply brillant? (I will answer that for you).
Indeed the Livingston Double Eagle (N4921). Not much on the net and I remember (had a picture from Trade-a-Plane, but lost it) the aircraft initially had a much shorter an d blunt nose and a smaller and unswept tail.

your turn to go on expedition

 

[lefty]

Thank you Walter - here's a racing biplane with a chunky motor -

 

[lefty]

This one really shouldn't be too difficult - big company. If you think that the numeral looks a bit European, you wouldn't be wrong - the large 'mill' is a Hispano-Suiza.

This view makes it look quite different -

 

[Moses03]

Just not getting a vibe at all on this one.

 

[pomme homme]

Surely there can't be a plethora of inverted sesquiplanes?

 

[pomme homme]

One of the two Fiat CR.1 prototypes - the MM.1 or MM.2? I can't do more than hazard a guess as I can't find an image of either on the net.

 

[lefty]

Look further east - this one was a variant of a fighter of the same configuration. It won the President of the Republic's Speed Trophy in 1925 - (187mph) - but which republic ??

 

[Moses03]

Avia BH.21R. The clue was most generous.

 

[lefty]

=The clue was most generous.

I'm going soft in my old age... Over to another republic !

 

[Moses03]

Work on this one dragged along for some time.

 

[Baragouin]

Work on this one dragged along for some time.

Could that be a Avia-Lombardi FL3 with a Meteor Alfa 4 engine?
Cheers
BG

 

[Moses03]

Not Italian BG.

 

[Moses03]

This one started around 1934 and they were still fiddling with it into 1940. One of three makes by this Los Angeles, CA designer. It had a couple of different engines, the last being a Continental.