The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

***Moses03*** · January 25th, 2009, 12:48

I have conflicting info on the GP-1 & GP-2 so I went with the 1.

**& Co.** · January 25th, 2009, 12:48

Moses03 got it right! So it wasn't a stinker. Am I slowly getting pulled from Lefty's purgatory ?

The GP2 was fairly different, much more Bf108-like.

Over to you, Kevin

**lefty** · January 25th, 2009, 13:15

Kevin rightly deserves the liquor.

However.......

I rest my case, m'lud.

***Moses03*** · January 25th, 2009, 14:45

I will defer to Lefty on the Spanish Armada as my info was spotty but it would be impolite to refuse a cold one though so I will press on here. :friday:

This should be an easyish one I think...

**& Co.** · January 25th, 2009, 21:48

Lefty, that's what I meant. It seems to me the pic I've posted shows a plane with a tarpaulin over a (presumably) open cockpit - or am I being abused by an old dusty pic ?

**lefty** · January 25th, 2009, 22:55

Yann, it looks like a glass greenhouse to me, but let's move on.
Kevin has produced another stinker from the vaults - some very heavy photoshopping here - he's been a busy boy. Back to the books !

**lefty** · January 25th, 2009, 23:14

It's a bouncing Czech - an Aero A-300.

***Moses03*** · January 26th, 2009, 04:45

A.300 it is.

Non-alcoholic beer for Lefty

**lefty** · January 26th, 2009, 07:21

Moses is very fond of twin-engined types - here's another.

**& Co.** · January 26th, 2009, 08:17

Russian for sure or I'll eat my hat. It could be a Tupolev ANT 29.

***srgalahad*** · January 26th, 2009, 08:49

A "102mm Kurchevski DRP, a recoilless gun of 4.00m length..." ??? dang, don't point that thing at me!
You know it's gotta be nasty when there's a 'tailpipe' for the gun exhaust

**lefty** · January 26th, 2009, 09:46

Small pastis for Yann - ANT-29 it is - please continue, sir.

**& Co.** · January 26th, 2009, 13:35

Here we go:

***Moses03*** · January 27th, 2009, 04:43

I'm guessing something French but it is a little too much on the flivverish side to get a solid grip.

**& Co.** · January 27th, 2009, 06:33

Ah, this is where language acts as a barrier... "flivver" or "flivverish" do not appear in my english-french dictionaries

Let's say it was from a reasonably well known pre-war maker - though not as famous a Potez or Nieuport or Dewoitine or Breguet or Farman or Bloch or... :d
Lefty, have a go ?

**lefty** · January 27th, 2009, 06:54

OK, this wee chap is a Mauboussin M-40 Hémiptère. You knew it all the time.

**& Co.** · January 27th, 2009, 07:14

A HUGE glass of skimmed milk for Lefty !

***Moses03*** · January 27th, 2009, 07:26

Dang Lefty, where in the heck did you find that?

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**& Co.** · January 27th, 2009, 07:54

I know the feeling, Kevin. I've met a man, he was able to give you the latin name of any bug crossing his field of vision - pretty scary

Thanks for the vocabulary lesson, by the way. Not that the Mauboussin was anything near "flivverish", mind...

**lefty** · January 27th, 2009, 08:52

Well I posted a French tandem-wing job a wee while back, and discovered there were lots more, including this one !

Something much easier to soothe the savage Texan breast.

What are these smart fellows ? (No photoshopping - I'm in a generous mood)

***Moses03*** · January 27th, 2009, 09:35

Armstrong Whitworth A.W.35?

Savage Texan "breast"? Hope that is a typo! :caked:

**Ralf Roggeveen** · January 27th, 2009, 11:10

Originally Posted by Moses03

Armstrong Whitworth A.W.35?

Savage Texan "breast"? Hope that is a typo! :caked:

...in Norwegian service.

No, he is quite right, the original line (Shakespeare?) is 'music hath charms to soothe the savage breast.' it is often misquoted 'beast'.

R.R.B.A. (Eng. Lit.) Hons.

**lefty** · January 27th, 2009, 13:59

Thank you, Ralf - we like to maintain an erudite level of prose in this forum!
However Kevin got in first with the A.W.35 Scimitar, so a glass of that awful Coors or something for him.....

***Moses03*** · January 27th, 2009, 14:20

Thanks for the brewski. I'm not fussy.

Here is an overly spatted breast er beast for you all-

**lefty** · January 27th, 2009, 22:08

Now personally I would have photoshopped out the berets - they are a bit of a giveaway !
What a monster - a Bernard V4 - must find out more about it. There is a nice tome about Avions Bernard, which I have considered getting from Amazon France, but I'm not sure my French is really up to it.