The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

**dan_pub** · January 1st, 2018, 00:13

They even managed to crash it.
https://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/new...-229969-1.html

***Moses03*** · January 1st, 2018, 07:39

That is the one Mike.

Lead us off for 2018.

**lefty** · January 1st, 2018, 07:50

Thank you Kevin - what better than a grainy floater ?

***Moses03*** · January 2nd, 2018, 04:00

I recognize the location but no luck on the make and model just yet.

**Baragouin** · January 2nd, 2018, 06:58

Originally Posted by Moses03

I recognize the location but no luck on the make and model just yet.

Finally something that I know: Vecihi-Hürkus K.KVID....
Cheers
Carlo (BG)

**lefty** · January 2nd, 2018, 07:42

Carlo comes up trumps with the tantalising Turk !

Not sure about Kevin's familiar stretch of water - might be the Bosphorus ?

Anyway, over to Italy..

***Moses03*** · January 2nd, 2018, 08:39

Originally Posted by lefty

Not sure about Kevin's familiar stretch of water

Me neither. I was a little off there.

**Baragouin** · January 3rd, 2018, 02:31

Sorry for the delay gentlemen!
And here's my new offer a floater for a change...
Cheers
Carlo (BG)
https://imgur.com/a/FvrIC

**fabulousfour** · January 3rd, 2018, 04:40

Could this be the Piaggio P.9 on floats and with a radial engine?

**Baragouin** · January 3rd, 2018, 08:09

Originally Posted by fabulousfour

Could this be the Piaggio P.9 on floats and with a radial engine?

This is exactly what it is Robert! Your turn...Cheers
Carlo (BG)

**fabulousfour** · January 3rd, 2018, 09:09

Thanks, Carlo!

Here is a sweet little biplane.

**fabulousfour** · January 4th, 2018, 03:58

Regarding the used material this plane seems to be a "first" in aviation history.

Not a one-off, flown in the early twenties.

**giruXX** · January 4th, 2018, 04:34

it looks somewhat like a Longren AK

**fabulousfour** · January 4th, 2018, 05:09

Well, it should look like a Longren AK because it is a Longren AK.

Probably the first aircraft built of composite material.

Over to the Black Forest.

**giruXX** · January 4th, 2018, 05:45

Here comes an optically similar thing, albeit without the upper wing:

**fabulousfour** · January 4th, 2018, 08:14

Cute.

That one would fit into a garage I think.

**giruXX** · January 5th, 2018, 04:48

... and almost in a hummingbird's nest

**giruXX** · January 6th, 2018, 01:13

This plane flew for the first time at the Long Beach Municipal Airport in 1926 with a 24 h.p. engine.

**giruXX** · January 7th, 2018, 00:20

It’s the Brea “Humming Bird”, see Aero Digest April 1926, p.198 https://archive.org/stream/aerodiges...e/n89/mode/2up

As to the garage: look how many garages Google finds at “Hummingbird Dr, Brea, CA 92823”

Open House!!

**fabulousfour** · January 7th, 2018, 00:34

An interesting article about the Brea/Tremaine Humming Bird can be viewed here starting at page 4.

**wout** · January 7th, 2018, 09:41

A not so big twin. Not an ULM but with "normal" registration.

**wout** · January 8th, 2018, 03:56

European, initial engines two Solo/Hirth, then Koenig SC430s.

**fabulousfour** · January 8th, 2018, 10:45

The Krebser Twin Baby HB-YCK from Switzerland?

**wout** · January 8th, 2018, 12:50

That is her, fabulousfour

You know your classics!

**fabulousfour** · January 8th, 2018, 22:24

Originally Posted by wout

That is her, fabulousfour

You know your classics!

Never heard of her before and didn't even find a photo, it was the engine that gave the solution.

Here is a vintage trimotor.

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