The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

***Moses03*** · February 22nd, 2009, 07:46

wout- I think you are going to have to reveal this one and post something with more heft.

**wout** · February 22nd, 2009, 08:41

This is the Atlas H-10 (registration N37463). Design of Mr. Max Harlow and also referred to as the Harlow PCC-10.

Will be abroad next 10 days, so will not post until back.
Hope to find lots of mystery planes upon return.

***Moses03*** · February 22nd, 2009, 09:51

I knew that tail looked familiar! Thanks for the update.

**OPEN BOARD***

Anyone who wants to post a new one have at it. I have my hands full at the moment racing...

winslow33 · February 22nd, 2009, 12:13

Another new dude to the thread:wave:
UPDATE: Added the wrong image. sorry if anybody is already looking for the old one I replaced. I meant to add this one, but I accidentally clicked the wrong file and didnt realize.

***Moses03*** · February 22nd, 2009, 16:18

Welcome winslow to the fray. :ernae:

Don't recall seeing a Komet 2 seater. Guessing a Me 163 variant captured by the Russians?

winslow33 · February 22nd, 2009, 18:07

Yep, its a 163 Komet. I didn't know any were 2 seaters either until I stumbled across it earlier.

***Moses03*** · February 22nd, 2009, 19:12

Okay then, how about this beastie?

**lefty** · February 22nd, 2009, 23:09

Got it !

It is the portion of the Eiffel Tower with the anemometer attached, prior to installation.

The poncey-looking cove on the left is the Comte des Poules, in charge of tower installation.

If anyone is going to tell me that this contraption ever got off the ground, other than on the end of a crane, I want PROOF.

***Moses03*** · February 23rd, 2009, 07:39

No! But you are in the right area.:whistle:

Not sure about it's flight worthyness.

**jhefner** · February 23rd, 2009, 14:39

I thought those struts looked familiar, then realized they resemble the star-struts on a Hansa-Brandenburg. But if it is French built, than it is not from that firm.

Figured out how to search the images on a favorite website. But looking at all of those French creations at the same time almost made me go blind. :faint:

-James

**& Co.** · February 24th, 2009, 01:13

I'd suspect a Hanriot but my doc isn't Moses03's nor Lefty's...

**lefty** · February 24th, 2009, 02:51

Well I found it in an encyclopaedia of French civil engineering (!)

It is a Gastambide-Levavasseur from 1919.

Something more modern..

**jhefner** · February 24th, 2009, 03:55

Originally Posted by lefty

It is a Gastambide-Levavasseur from 1919.

I sometimes look these up online after one of you tell what it is. This one is a dozy; apparently, it was supposed to have wings of varying chord. Those must be the tracks the wing sections slid on in the pictures below.

From what I read, I think it crashed on its first flight. Definitely one of the more weird attempts to be innovative.

EDIT: It was also apparently the last plane designed by Levavasseur, who gave us the Antoinette. Like Bleriot; he showed great promise in the early years; but his career ended in a whimper rather than a bang.

EDIT2: Reading the translation at http://www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-98977.html; it may not have crashed, but was flown several times. History looks murky on this one.

EDIT3: Is anything not on youtube? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwv5CdKh-8g

-James

***Ferry_vO*** · February 24th, 2009, 07:49

Interesting design, that Gastambide aircraft..

As for Lefty's latest: Canadair CL-41R ?

**lefty** · February 24th, 2009, 08:16

Ferry got the Canadair

***Ferry_vO*** · February 24th, 2009, 10:13

Another one with interesting wing geometry:

**lefty** · February 24th, 2009, 10:36

I posted this a while back, Ferry, but we'll leave it to see who else has an intimate knowledge of weird aircraft !

***Moses03*** · February 24th, 2009, 10:48

I remember this one well as it stumped all of us at the time. It ended up killing the designer or was that the test pilot?

James- Thanks for the link on the Gastembide-Levavasseur.

***Ferry_vO*** · February 24th, 2009, 11:02

Can't remember seeing this one before, must have been way back before the crash..

And speaking of crashes: This one did crash, but I don't know if anyone was killed during the accident.

**& Co.** · February 25th, 2009, 02:54

We just had the twin boom pusher fit.
Are we entering the variable-chord airplane era ? :d

**lefty** · February 25th, 2009, 03:03

Lots more twin-boomers in the cellar, Yann. :mixedsmi:

***Moses03*** · February 25th, 2009, 05:55

Okay, lets move this along. It is a stinker for sure!

This one is the French Gerin Varivol from 1936.

This floater was given a proper name. I need that name.