The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[Ferry_vO]

Here's a close-up of the deep-sea diver in the cockpit..:

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And since I don't see Moses around and it's almost bedtime for me, here's the next:

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[Moses03]

To Ferry on the high flying Italian.

[Ferry_vO]

Awfully quiet in here....

Small hint: Western Europe.

[Moses03]

Guessing it's French but haven't run across it yet.

[Ferry_vO]

Not French Kevin.

[lefty]

Something Stampe-y about it but can't find it in my list of Belgian horrors...

[Ferry_vO]

Time to move on; it's a Dutch Pander EH-120 with a Gipsy III engine.

And now for someting completely different:

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[lefty]

It's the GAF Pika from Down Under.

[Ferry_vO]

And the goes to Scotland!

[lefty]

Here's a wee STOL horror (probably not for Wout)...

[Moses03]

I know there are some early 1930's Hungarian designs with scalloped trailing edges but other than that...

The tail logo must be a clue, otherwise I think Lefty would have removed it?

[fasm]

L'hirondelle !

[lefty]

The tail logo must be a clue, otherwise I think Lefty would have removed it?

Not quite sure I follow the logic there ? No, the 'hirondelle', as fasm terms it, gives no clue to the name. But he might have hit on the correct nationality !

It is a one-off, and a toughie. But not a true homebuild. Built 1947

[fasm]

1947 ! Wow it looks like almost 1928-32, I understand the one-off, but not a true homebuilt ?
It's a garagebuilt , a parasol with what looks like a salmson engine... I have no idea

[wout]

just a wild educated guess,
the Brochet MB-31?
(I hope I have at least the country right)

[lefty]

Well I said it was a nasty, and so it was.

It is the Williams (Mouriot) 28X, built in 1947 by l'Amicale de l'Aviation légère de Lyon (AAL).

reg F-WEAT. (Salmson engine indeed - there was another built with a Volkswagen motor)

Open house, please.....

[wout]

Hi Mike,
Excellent choice the Williams X-28 and indeed a very unknown aircraft and not much is known, except for bits and pieces. Derivatives included F-PFUR (Miettaux-Ortolan T-23), F-WGGL (Williams-Ortolan M-23), F-WFEC (Williams MW-25), F-PFOC (Williams 28), F-WGYJ (Williams Motorfly AH-1), F-WFUS (T-24 Ortolan), F-WEAZ (MW-25).

I am not that strong in pre-war types, but please give this one a go

[DHC2Pilot]

Okay SK-1 (1929)

Walter....you never cease to amaze me. You take a complete obscurity like Mike's Williams 28X and then you go and rattle off several offshoots of it, none of which I've ever heard of. Astounding.

I'm sure on the Okay, so I'll press on with this curious number....

[lefty]

John, Walter's knowledge of light aircraft is indeed a thing of wonder, only partly rivalled by Moses' ability to endlessly dredge up Transylvanian prototypes from his dusty (sorry, grainy) archives.........

As for your latest - is the Martian standing beside it a wee clue ????

[wout]

DHC2Pilot is of course completely correct on the Okay!. :salute:
....and donot forget I admire YOU ALL all on your total knowledge of the older aircraft types. It sometimes (well, ALWAYS) makes me jealous!
...and my other handicap is that I am not strong on ULMs, Ultralights, Microlights or how you call them. It seems I need a registration.

[Moses03]

I think John has accidentally posted a photo of Uncle Joe's weekend project.

[DHC2Pilot]

Actually Kevin, you might be surprised by this one. This one would fall toward (but not over) the edge of the 'acceptable' realm here at SOH. It has AT LEAST one motorglider and sailplane as it's siblings. Pic is from 1979. It's something a bit different for a change. Besides, a lot of the birds on here were someone's weekend projects. I don't consider it an UL or an ML because it doesn't come from a designer well known for those designs. Judgement call - either way give it a whirl.

[Moses03]

No worries John, I was just kidding around. Maybe Walter has the inside track on this one.

[DHC2Pilot]

Well, I'll let my little social experiment fall by the wayside. This one was the Josef Borzecki JB-4 Skowronek (Uncle Joe's weekend project....LOL.....see Kevin, you weren't too far off!!) Interesting in that he built his own engines as well as the birds he put them in. Under his name he also built the Cirrus, Stratus, and Alto-Stratus glider/motorgliders.

Open house.

[fasm]

As everybody seems on holiday I take the opportunity to submit this beauty...