another first to shut the house
another first to shut the house
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Hi giruXX
Your beauty is the Okamura N-52 two-seater from Japan. Sometimes called the Nihon N-52, as the Nihon University participated in the design.
There is also mention of an N-52A model which, if it ever existed, could be the N-52 re-engined with a C85 (instead of the A65).
Sources say 3 were built as N-52. Could these have been 2 test airframes in addition to the flying JA3024?.
I only saw pictures of JA3024.
Thank you Walter
Your information is again overwhelming.
I can't say which craft is depicted as it was photographed without immatriculation.
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Seems streamlining was not the first priority on this one
The builder (same name as a fish known for her tiny but expensive eggs) used many Aeronca Chief parts, including the fuselage.
The twinfinner is the STUR-001 by Thomas E. Sturgeon. Registered N277TS, completed 1986, Lycoming O-235 engine and detachable wings.
Open House, please
If I might accept Walter's invitation and jump in with a photograph that I took last Sunday.
Did this mini-plane get a new cowling recently?
That I don't know, Robert. I hadn't seen it before Sunday and didn't put that question to its pilot!
Mike, I'm holding back this time but I have a hot contender for this biplane.
However, on the pictures I found the nose looks rather different.
Was it built by Gérard C. and the last letter of its registration is a "J"?
Yes on both counts - and to help others, here's a photograph of another (albeit undressed).
did she have Christen Eagle-like striping on the fuselage first?
I am no more able to answer that question, Walter, than I was Robert's first question.
Will you guys stop pussyfooting round this one and just tell us what it is, please ?
Having found, online, an earlier photograph of the same aeroplane, I can now see from where Robert and Walter are coming. It does seem to have been significantly remodelled between the time that photograph was taken and last Sunday.
Mike (from Scotland), I don't like to solve too often but only every few days, I want to avoid the impression that I have "hijacked" this thread.
However, as you ask so politely I will solve this mysterious biplane.
It is the Pottier P.60 Minacro with the registration F-PRIJ, built by Gérard Camenade and is -I think- No.3 of 6 built planes.
I must confess that I didn't find this mystery too difficult compared to some other unknown planes that remained unsolved.
I did a google search for biplan voltige (=aerobatic biplane) and limited the results to the colour yellow.
Scrolling a long way down I stumbled upon the following photo.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/142285104@N08/42073977410
Googling with Pottier and the registration gave some photos of the biplane probably in an earlier configuration and a different look, so that was the reason for my question.
Yes, Robert. Correct on, I believe, almost all counts. The only exception is that I believe seven have been built or are in the course of being built, six in France and one (the first) in Austria. But over to you, sir.
Oh, and the second photograph is of the P.60 in the museum at Angers.
Something older again.
... the Focke-Wulf (Fw) S.39 from 1931
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Correct on all points!
Over to you, Uli
Thank you Robert,
I thought the Schwarz airscrew should be a good hint. And indeed it was.
Here comes another not too successful contribution to civil aviation:
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Another German, the Espenlaub E-17.
Full hit! Over to Texas
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Thanks Uli.
This one is a bit skeletal...
Originating from Western Europe, this sesquiplane was built as a recon plane for the army as far as I can tell.
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