The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

**wout** · September 16th, 2015, 02:15

Hi MIke

A member of the Farman F-500/F-522 family?

**lefty** · September 16th, 2015, 02:38

Originally Posted by wout

Hi MIke

A member of the Farman F-500/F-522 family?

Walter - for a man who can normally tell us not only the registration ,but who was flying it and what he had for breakfast, this is a trifle vague !

The exact model number, please, before I release the foaming glass - I'm pouring it now !

**wout** · September 16th, 2015, 04:27

Thank you Mike

If you would force me and twist my arm behind my back, I would say the F-521 (F-WVGQ)

**lefty** · September 16th, 2015, 04:33

See, I told you ! Spot-on as usual - the 'Monitor III' -

**wout** · September 16th, 2015, 05:59

Thank you Mike

Sadly never flew in one, but at least I saw one (the Belgian SR-7B) at an airshow in the mid-1950s.
Next challenge is a light twin. Sorry for the somewhat grainy picture

**wout** · September 16th, 2015, 22:50

Twin is from USA and Stanley had nothing to do with it

**lefty** · September 17th, 2015, 01:12

I'll bite on your clue, Walter. Would this be the Livingston Double Eagle ? Fits the Aerofiles description.......

**wout** · September 17th, 2015, 03:04

Hi Mike

Are my clues too easy or are you simply brillant? (I will answer that for you).
Indeed the Livingston Double Eagle (N4921). Not much on the net and I remember (had a picture from Trade-a-Plane, but lost it) the aircraft initially had a much shorter an d blunt nose and a smaller and unswept tail.

your turn to go on expedition

**lefty** · September 17th, 2015, 05:00

Thank you Walter - here's a racing biplane with a chunky motor -

**lefty** · September 17th, 2015, 21:17

This one really shouldn't be too difficult - big company. If you think that the numeral looks a bit European, you wouldn't be wrong - the large 'mill' is a Hispano-Suiza.

This view makes it look quite different -

***Moses03*** · September 18th, 2015, 05:31

Just not getting a vibe at all on this one.

**pomme homme** · September 18th, 2015, 08:49

Surely there can't be a plethora of inverted sesquiplanes?

**pomme homme** · September 18th, 2015, 11:47

One of the two Fiat CR.1 prototypes - the MM.1 or MM.2? I can't do more than hazard a guess as I can't find an image of either on the net.

**lefty** · September 18th, 2015, 14:04

Look further east - this one was a variant of a fighter of the same configuration. It won the President of the Republic's Speed Trophy in 1925 - (187mph) - but which republic ??

***Moses03*** · September 18th, 2015, 17:35

Avia BH.21R. The clue was most generous.

**lefty** · September 18th, 2015, 21:11

=The clue was most generous.

I'm going soft in my old age...

Over to another republic !

***Moses03*** · September 19th, 2015, 10:11

Work on this one dragged along for some time.

**Baragouin** · September 19th, 2015, 14:10

Originally Posted by Moses03

Work on this one dragged along for some time.

Could that be a Avia-Lombardi FL3 with a Meteor Alfa 4 engine?
Cheers
BG

***Moses03*** · September 19th, 2015, 14:26

Not Italian BG.

***Moses03*** · September 20th, 2015, 12:55

This one started around 1934 and they were still fiddling with it into 1940. One of three makes by this Los Angeles, CA designer. It had a couple of different engines, the last being a Continental.

**lefty** · September 20th, 2015, 22:37

Looks a bit like one of the small Culvers - but they weren't CA ??

***Moses03*** · September 21st, 2015, 03:50

Not a Culver effort. This was the Johansen JA-2. It had a somewhat confusing lineage.

Open board please-

**wout** · September 21st, 2015, 09:24

This small biplane is from around 1927

**lefty** · September 21st, 2015, 23:07

Nothing clicking on this one, Walter - almost like the Miles Satyr, but pretty sure it is not British -suspect Eastern Europe ? I-struts look Spaddy but nothing else.....

**Baragouin** · September 22nd, 2015, 04:07

Originally Posted by lefty

Nothing clicking on this one, Walter - almost like the Miles Satyr, but pretty sure it is not British -suspect Eastern Europe ? I-struts look Spaddy but nothing else.....

I got it! The Skraba ST-3 (1927 - Poland)...
Cheers
BG