The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[wout]

Hi Mike!
To be honest I have no real explanation why the name Orlican is connected with the M-3 (and also with types such as the L-40 Meta-Sokol and L-60 Brigadyr). It may have to do with marketing or maybe it is a result of the various renamings that went on in countries such as the CSSR in the 1950s. I have the same questions about the name Moravan.

Next one is a small flying boat. The gear is just for beaching. Twin engines with tractor props.

[Moses03]

Those are awfully small engines. JPX or Rotax perhaps?

[wout]

Hi Kevin! :salute:
No Rotax/JPX, but I understand modified outboard engines delivering some 40hp each
No a manufacturer as such, but the organization created quite some light aircraft (and helis).

Here is a photo from another angle.

[lefty]

Would it be one of those jobs that students cobble up in their spare time, then ???

[wout]

Hi Mike! :salute:
Are you implying that students got spare time??

[wout]

Mike, I think I know what you mean.
Indeed a creation of a Group ((Institute) and it was (is?) very active.
This boat was tested around 1977.

[wout]

the small flying boat is the KhAI-30 by the Kharkov Aviation Institute (now Ukraine)

O.H. please

[lefty]

Blast ! Should have had that one - it looks somehow different in Gunston and Russian (sorry, Ukrainian) never crossed my mind.......

[Moses03]

Will swoop in here with fancy pants...

[Dev One]

Reid & Sigrist? With Pobjoys?
Dont know exact definition though, just a guess.
Keith

[srgalahad]

Only pics of the R&S show twin tails..
Now, Moses left that one-armed cactus logo on either as a clue or a distraction... hmmm

[Moses03]

Pobjoys are correct Keith. Not a R & S design though.

[Moses03]

Originally a civil project, Mr. fancy pants was later evaluated by a certain axis power. The aircraft sat abandoned during most of the war and was eventually scrapped in 1957.

Not sure about the one-armed cactus...

[Moses03]

This one was unknown to me until recently. It's The Nuvoli ND-6 from Italy. Built in 1940, it was tested by the Germans in 1943.

Speaking of the Germans, here is one that would be an interesting FS model. Can you spot the third engine...

[srgalahad]

Henschel Hs-130E

"The Hs 130E was a re-working of the Hs 130A with the Höhen Zentrale (HZ)-Anlage system in place of conventional superchargers. HZ-Anlage installed a third engine in the fuselage, a DB 605, the only purpose of which was to power a large supercharger to supply air to the wing-mounted DB 603B engines."

[Moses03]

Henschel it is!

Over to the great white North.

[srgalahad]

Moving right along
(the only way to stay warm at -25C )

[Sopwith Chameleon]

Blohm & Voss BV 142

[srgalahad]

figures a CFS2 type would pounce on that one

It's all yours

[Sopwith Chameleon]

:salute:............thanks - and now, something out of "Crimson Skies" ?

[Ferry_vO]

Belyayev DB-LK.

[Sopwith Chameleon]

Amstel or Heineken ? Correct !

[Ferry_vO]

And now for something completely different:

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[Hurricane91]

I don't know what it is, but it sure is cute.

[wout]

Hi Ferry! :salute:
The VVV-Avia (Samara VVV-Avia) Sigma-4 from Russia