The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[wout]

Hi Kevin, bingo!
:salute:

[Moses03]

Alrighty then.

[lefty]

Hmmm, from an era when they were all pusher bipes !

Looks a bit Savoia-Marchetti-ish but suspect it's a one-off Yank. New England type piers in the background.

[Moses03]

As usual, Lefty is on the right track...

[Moses03]

The designer built one other similar flying boat. This one was powered by a Hisso initially.

[Dave_Kent]

Maurice McMechan built a couple of flying boats in the mid 30s, one of which was powered by a 150hp Hisso, but I know nothing of them. West coast, I think, so not <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comffice:smarttags" /><st1lace w:st="on">New England</st1lace>.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" /><o></o>
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Dave

[DHC2Pilot]

Rogers RBX Sea Eagle (1929).

[Moses03]

Cold one for John.

Over to you-

[DHC2Pilot]

Up next...

[wout]

Hi DHC2Pilot,
if you forgive my insufficient of the Hungarian language, I call this the Dahu II of
MSrE (Muegyetemi Sportrepulo Egyesulet). :mixedsmi:

[DHC2Pilot]

MSrE M.28 Daru it is. Used as a glider tug, one built - Circa 1950. Over to you Walter.

[wout]

This heli is not related to the Bell 47, not a homebuilt and it had a non-US engine.

[Dev One]

Is it French? One of the North African named variety?
Keith

[wout]

Hi Keith,
sorry, it is not French.
Year of completion was 1953 and the aircraft survives in a museum in its country of birth.

[wout]

if it helps, the heli was painted yellow
It is reported as the first indigenous heli design of the country.
Engine was 150hp Hitachi Jinphu III radial

[Moses03]

Would not have found it without the hints. It's the Yomiuri Y-1.

Flight has it from 1956? http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchi...0-%201576.html



Going to press on here with a lumbering (or should that be slumbering?) beast...

[Dave_Kent]

A Farman of some flavour, perhaps the F. 220-0.

Dave

[Moses03]

Very Farmanish, but not one.

[wout]

Hi Kevin, nor necessary to confirm it is the Y-1 by Yomiury. What put you in the right track? must have been my hint it was yellow

:ernae:

[Dave_Kent]

Perhaps then this is the Polikarpov TB 5

Dave

[Moses03]

Not that far East Dave.

What put you in the right track? must have been my hint it was yellow

Why yes. I had been searching for an orange one.

[lefty]

Hello chaps - still here - just not very good on yellow choppers...........

I think Moses has found a rare view of the LeO-300.

[Moses03]

LeO 300 indeed!

Over to the land of kilts and bagpipes-

[lefty]

I'm afraid my kilt has shrunk a bit...........


Here's a wee floater for you - not too difficult.

[Dave_Kent]

Port Victoria P.V. 2