The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[Moses03]

Okay, let's refresh with something completely different.

[lefty]

Looks like some oddball mockup, Kevin. Very rum-looking prop, even odder engine, and as for the floats......was this a flier ??

[Moses03]

Not a mockup Mike. She was a flier for sure.

[Moses03]

The younger sibling of this flying boat appeared in this thread in the distant past. It was of similar layout but most notably had a 2-bladed prop and thicker wing struts.

[lefty]

In which case this must be the Argonaut H-20 Pirate ?

[Moses03]

Amazes me how you figured that out with so little info. A pint for the Scotsman on the elder Pirate.

[lefty]

Just detective work as usual ! We haven't had a nice Aggie for a while - how about this one ? (It may have been here before, but can't find it.....)

[giruXX]

A Hongdu N-5, perhaps?

Nanchang N5A from

[lefty]

That's the one, gX..

[giruXX]

Here is a neat little number:

[cthornburg]

MCA HF.XX-02

Chris

[giruXX]

That's her!

[Baragouin]

MCA HF.XX-02

Chris

Good on you Chris I just found her on the last page of my last archive book!
BG

[cthornburg]

Should be easy

Chris

[pomme homme]

Hordern-Richmond Autoplane of 1936.

[cthornburg]

Right On over to you

Chris

[pomme homme]

Thank you, Chris. Here's something a little more obscure - and of a more grainy depiction (or should I say pixelatorily challenged!).

[lefty]

'pixelatorily' eh ? Try saying that after a couple of Calvas........

[Moses03]

I have the feeling Mike has been waiting to unleash this monograin on us!

[pomme homme]

I can assure you, gentlemen, that what I've offered is not the Russ Conway Pixillated Penguin!

[lefty]

Well, my granny used to like Russ Conway, Mike.....

Actually this unlovely machine is the 1925 B.A.E.G. A20 Monoplane, produced by Leopold Bauer and Max Eger in Brunn. 596cc 18 hp Douglas engine..

[lefty]

While waiting for Pomme homme, I need some help from you fellows, and am sure some of you will have the answer ! Whilst researching, I came across, in the 1947 Jane's, a description of a Sud-Ouest machine, the G.L.3 Libellule, a sporting twin-boom pusher with Praga engine. There is a full description with dimensions etc., but no illustration.

Can't find out any more, expect for another reference to a Lasserre G.L.3 Libellule, presumably the same aircraft. Can anyone enlighten me, please, as to whether it was ever built and flown ?

[pomme homme]

Well, my granny used to like Russ Conway, Mike.....

Well, I suppose someone had to! Did she like Winifred Atwell as well?

Actually this unlovely machine is the 1925 B.A.E.G. A20 Monoplane, produced by Leopold Bauer and Max Eger in Brunn. 596cc 18 hp Douglas engine..

Indeed it is. It was produced as a Volksflugzeug but, presumably, der Volk didn't agree as there was only one and der Osterreicher, as a people, weren't prepared to queue for long enough to get their turn to fly it!

Over to you, Mike.

[pomme homme]

While waiting for Pomme homme, I need some help from you fellows, and am sure some of you will have the answer ! Whilst researching, I came across, in the 1947 Jane's, a description of a Sud-Ouest machine, the G.L.3 Libellule, a sporting twin-boom pusher with Praga engine. There is a full description with dimensions etc., but no illustration.

Can't find out any more, expect for another reference to a Lasserre G.L.3 Libellule, presumably the same aircraft. Can anyone enlighten me, please, as to whether it was ever built and flown ?

Does this help - http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,13777.msg135058.html#msg135058

[lefty]

Thanks Mike - my grubbing around didn't reveal that thread !

Am a bit pushed today - here's a very easy one to keep things rolling -