The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

**giruXX** · May 27th, 2018, 08:47

My next could be a perfect illustration for the evolution of life: From flying boat, via amphibian to a land plane (with the sea still in the background).

**fabulousfour** · May 27th, 2018, 09:30

From your holidays in Espana, Uli?

I think this is a Colyaer Martin.

**giruXX** · May 27th, 2018, 10:53

I thought I should continue the tortilla line

Galicia Avionica SL GAV Martin 3, EC-EP4

your turn Robert

**fabulousfour** · May 27th, 2018, 11:55

Three Spaniards in a row, time for a change.

**cthornburg** · May 27th, 2018, 13:10

Thomas-Morse MB-7/R-5

Chris

**fabulousfour** · May 27th, 2018, 22:16

It is the Thomas-Morse.

I thought after all those long-lasting mysteries I should post an easy one.

**cthornburg** · May 28th, 2018, 02:45

Easy if you know it and hard if you don't and frustrating when you can't figure it out.

So I don't know about this one.

Chris

**giruXX** · May 28th, 2018, 03:42

... i.e., business as usual

**wout** · May 28th, 2018, 04:43

Hi Chris

Your tu-holer is the CSS-10A from Poland. CSS =Centralne Studium Samolotów built 2 examples in 1948 and 1949.
CSS-10 (registration SP-AAP) and the CSS-10A (registration SP-BAK). Main differences were the engine and wing with slight dihedral (CSS-10A).

**cthornburg** · May 28th, 2018, 07:41

Close but no cigar. Over to you since it's only 1 number off. CSS-11 SP-BAH

Chris

**wout** · May 28th, 2018, 14:02

Hi Chris

Of course you are wright. I was much too in a hurry to come up with an answer. Your picture shows the CSS-11 no.1 with the so-called intermediate tail.
Attached is a picture of the CSS-10A taken from the same angle. That tricked me into the wrong answer.

I propose Open Board

**giruXX** · May 29th, 2018, 07:13

let's try this:

**fabulousfour** · May 29th, 2018, 08:07

Is that a Nemesis NXT, Uli?

The rudder looks different somehow.

**giruXX** · May 29th, 2018, 10:43

It is! I have it as “Wright NXT” or Nemesis NXT #7 "Wright Flyer" by Dan Wright.
(Wout inadvertently gave me the keyword.)

Your turn

**fabulousfour** · May 29th, 2018, 11:06

Thanks, Uli.

Here is an easy one.

Must be solved within the next 15 hours since I will be online only sporadically the next days.

**fabulousfour** · May 29th, 2018, 21:58

The plane should have flown to Stockholm via Greenland, but ran out of fuel before reaching a prepared airstrip there.
It then remained for decades on Greenland's icecap but was recovered about half a century ago. It was restored and now is in a museum.

**fabulousfour** · May 29th, 2018, 23:07

By the way, the manufacturer is well known and the aircraft is not a one-off, according to Wikipedia more than 100 of the type were built.

Capacity for 6 persons on board.

**pomme homme** · May 30th, 2018, 00:45

With those clues it must be the 1928 Stinson Detroiter ('The Greater Rockford') of Cramer/Hassell.

**fabulousfour** · May 30th, 2018, 01:54

It is the "Greater Rockford" which lay "on the rocks" in Greenland for 40 years.

Over to you, Mike!

**pomme homme** · May 30th, 2018, 02:46

Thank you, Robert.

Here's an unusual sesquiplane - perhaps unusual for what you can't see on the upper mainplanes!

**lefty** · May 31st, 2018, 07:28

Mike, your wee flivver sans ailerons is unfamiliar to me.....is this a late-model wing-warper, or just another flight of Gallic fancy ?

**pomme homme** · May 31st, 2018, 08:11

It's definitely gallic but it isn't a wing warper. As to why the upper main planes are sans ailerons, maybe this image will explain.

**lefty** · May 31st, 2018, 21:07

Even a limited grasp of aerodynamics would suggest a fairly drastic reaction on tweaking those levers!

And that doesn't even look like a proper aerofoil section......please tell me there's a clip of it flying on YouTube..