The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[Baragouin]

I was hoping to give our Moses the honour of post number 10000 but here goes !!

This machine won't be found amongst the orientals, or in Aerofiles, nor is it a Balkan horror - it is much closer to home than that.........from a well-known manufacturer, who have their very own Putnam.........

Could it be the Bristol 110A?
BG
PS Probably with Neptune engine

[lefty]

You got it, BG, and I think you are right about the Neptune motor - probably just before its last disastrous flight.....see, it wasn't so exotic after all !

[Dev One]

I'd gone westwards, but not far enough to look at Bristol....the engine cowl & wings looked more Gloster to me! I certainly don't remember it from my Bristol book of aitcraft.....Ah well one lives & hopefully one learns...& at my age remembers.....
Keith

[Moses03]

(Should have sussed the Bristol)

[Baragouin]

(Should have sussed the Bristol)

May I also congratulate with Lefty on his 10.000 Mk which I will never reach.....
BTW here's my next and old mystery plane!
Cheers
BG

[Moses03]

Okay BG, Europe is thick with these little runabouts. A Germanesque version perhaps?

[Baragouin]

Okay BG, Europe is thick with these little runabouts. A Germanesque version perhaps?

Hello Moses!
This runabout comes from a country bordering Germany on the eastern side ......
BG

[lefty]

Thanks for the hint, BG - it must then be the P.W.S.50 ! (Unlike Moses, I was wasting time in France....... )

[Dev One]

I'm still learning then - I though as its a RH tractor engine it was a German motor & possibly a German aircraft - neither searches of which resulted in anything like that aircraft. Didn't know that ADC Cirrus engines were RH tractor & had not thought of Poland either!!! Ah well onward & upward..as they say....
Keith

[Baragouin]

Thanks for the hint, BG - it must then be the P.W.S.50 ! (Unlike Moses, I was wasting time in France....... )

Hello Lefty!
Yes it is indeed a PWS50 (SP-ADB) and the engine is a Cirrus III (85HP)
Your turn please
BG

[lefty]

Thank you, BG.

Back to the water..

[Baragouin]

Thank you, BG.

Back to the water..

I have a mind that this might be the S.P.C.A. 63 "Météor" although the tail doesn't seem to match 100%....
BG

[Baragouin]

Thank you, BG.

Back to the water..

I'm now pretty sure it is!
BG

[lefty]

The Tuscan Terror strikes again....S.P.C.A. 63 she be.

[Baragouin]

OK I think I found a new mystery....exact number please!
BG

[lefty]

OK,no other takers - I'll go for Yak I-26-2

[Baragouin]

OK,no other takers - I'll go for Yak I-26-2

Yes Lefty it is the Yakovlev I-26-2 and precisely the second proto with chin radiator and VISh-61P propeller
Your turn with a big surprise!
BG

[Dev One]

Hmmmm... I was way off looking in the USA....windscreen looked Severski ish, but LH tractor a problem.....didn't know Russians were LH..
Ahh well back to the drawing board!
Keith

[lefty]

Keith, you are exhibiting classic symptoms of propeller obsession........don't think it will help with this floater either....

[lefty]

This one appeared at the 1922 Paris Salon, for those of you who were there.....here seen in action.....

[Dev One]

Using that clue I think it might be the Liore et Olivier H10, but have only found a sketch in Flight global but not a photo of sufficient quality to prove it.
Keith

[lefty]

Despite not knowing which way the prop turned, you nailed it, Keith ! The one and only H-10.

[Dev One]

Thanks Mike - Still not sure which way a Lorraine-Dietrich turns!!!!!But my initial searches were way out again over the pond!
Here is my offering for today.
Keith

[Moses03]

Looks like the Piaggio P.150 but the canopy glazing is slightly different.

[lefty]

Looks like the Piaggio P.150 but the canopy glazing is slightly different.

You had me going there, Kevin. It is actually a Valmet VH-II Vihuri !

In the course of my researches I did find an alternative Piaggio canopy - then realised the tail and a few other things were totally different......