The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[pomme homme]

Indeed it is and indeed I did. It was taken at the Train Classique fly-in at Châtellerault last Saturday. It's an event to which I've been going for years and each year it seems to draw yet more interesting aeroplanes. Along with numerous modern homebuilts, this year it attracted a MS.317, MS.505, Nord N.3400, NC.858, Yak 12, Taylorcraft A, Auster 5, most of the Cub variants and lots of really old Jodels and Piels. It's a really friendly event. There are no barriers. And the lunch served is excellent - which maybe is why it attracts so many participants. Well, it is France, after all! But enough of this. The ball's in your court, Mike. Service please!

[lefty]

Sounds like great fun, Mike, very envious. Curiously, we have our own Chatelherault up here too ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatel...t_Country_Park

Here's something different, which I know will be snapped up by at least two of our number, so get in quick....but at least it's a new one here.

[dan_pub]

I have this as a Gulfstream Peregrine 600 trainer prototype adaptation of the Hustler 500, maybe N600GA.

[lefty]

You got, it, Dan, over to you sir -

[wout]

When you Google for photos of N600GA, you may note that the aircraft was flown/tested in several configurations.
Initially it had downward pointed tips/winglets and rear ventral fins. Then modified with upward tips/winlets and ventral fins removed and finally again with the original tips/winglets, but now ventral fins of slightly different shape.

[lefty]

It's the size of the cockpit canopy that gets me - apart from the two pilots, you could get a reasonable crop of tomatoes in there..........

[dan_pub]

Thank you Lefty.

Here is a slightly older entry, that could be mistaken for the ancestor of the Flapjack:

[Dev One]

Didn't know that he made more than the one, let alone having folding wings, but googling this appears to be Clement Ader's Avion III.
Keith

[dan_pub]

You have it. this is the third steam-propelled Avion, named Aquilon, which Ader flew in 1998.
He failed to win the Army's contract, when he proved unable to complete a closed circuit.
(It did not help that he tried to make square turns ...)

The floor is yours.

[Dev One]

Thanks D-P, although I gathered that it was not really controllable & the government pulled out its funding.
Anyway your next challenge is:
Keith

[Moses03]

Good morning Keith. This is a rare bird, the MCA Triciclo from Chile.

[Dev One]

Moses, Spot on, thought it might last a little longer, but We have a lot of experts here!
Over to you sir with a small reward.
Keith

[Moses03]

Thanks Keith.

Three of these showed up in the early 1930's. All with different engines apparently!

[lefty]

Is it the Kari-Keen 90 ? Almost identical, although the fuselage on this looks deeper....

[Moses03]

Not anything Kari-Keen Mike. This one is out of New York State.

[Moses03]

Right. The Huntington HD-11.

Open board-

[pomme homme]

I know that this one's been around before but not, I believe, in this form. However I doubt that it will hang around for long!

[Baragouin]

Hello Pomme-Homme
This reminds me strongly of a Hanriot H.232.02....
Cheers
BG

[pomme homme]

Well, I'm not surprised, Baragouin, as it is the the H.232 prototype! Over to Italia .....

[Baragouin]

THANKS pOMME-hOMME
as you said it wasn't that difficult!
And here comes my mysterious machine:

Cheers
BG

[pomme homme]

Piel CP.1320 Saphir?

[Baragouin]

Piel CP.1320 Saphir?

Sorry no Pomme-Homme however if you look at the nordic landscape.......
Cheers
BG

[lefty]

Thanks for the clue, BG. The PIK-15 ??

[Baragouin]

Thanks for the clue, BG. The PIK-15 ??

Yes Lefty it is the finnish PIK15 indeed...and now your turn my friend....
Cheers
BG

[lefty]

Right, here's a trainer -built by a well-known company but few made -