The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

**fabulousfour** · December 17th, 2019, 03:29

...which is correct of course

It is the SIAI/Savoia S.52 in Paraguayan colours.

Over to you, Mike.

**lefty** · December 17th, 2019, 05:18

Thank you Robert.

Can't stay away from the water for long - this one is no bathing beauty -

**pomme homme** · December 17th, 2019, 06:44

Macchi M.16?

**lefty** · December 17th, 2019, 07:31

Indeed it is. Over to France

**pomme homme** · December 17th, 2019, 08:58

As the water seems nice, let's stay in it for a while. Here's an early floater.

I think that the lesson to be learned from the attached photograph is that when one moors one's flying boat at high tide, one should ascertain where it will be at low tide. In this case, I must assume that the pilot failed to do so - leaving his craft both high and dry!

**lefty** · December 17th, 2019, 23:35

A little tricky, this one. It's a Savoia S.9, I think, but it could well be the French C.A.M.S. - built equivalent

**pomme homme** · December 18th, 2019, 00:57

That's not the precise answer, Mike, but your reasoning is very sound and you are very close. Indeed you are so close that I don't think it makes sense for me to let this one proceed further. It was a 'mystery ship' on a French forum where the learned opinion was that it is either a SIAI S.13 or its French alter ego, the licence built CAMS C.13. Quite how and where it came to be so high and dry was not explained. Over to Scotland.

**lefty** · December 18th, 2019, 01:34

Thanks Mike. Spent a lot of time on the Savoias 9,12 and 13 - a bewildering variety of strutting arrangements, tail shapes, motors, etc, but unlike your learned friend, plumped for the 9 !

This one is an easy twin, but I can't find it as having appeared here before, so -

**giruXX** · December 19th, 2019, 09:47

No taker for the Caproni Ca 308 Borea?

**lefty** · December 19th, 2019, 14:06

Apparently not, Uli - maybe they are all too busy with Christmas preparations... over to you -

**giruXX** · December 19th, 2019, 23:11

Here comes my Christmas Goose (actually a re-post but the picture has disappeared from the thread long-ago). However, you may identify it under the name of its constructor this time.

**fabulousfour** · December 20th, 2019, 04:14

If I remember correctly this is the Koehl Ko-1 aka Loessl/Koehl Flying Wing.

I saw some pictures of the Koehl aircraft accidentally some time ago but don't remember where.

The same Koehl flew the Junkers W 33 "Bremen" across the Atlantic from East to West.

Rather difficult to find some information about that bird.

**giruXX** · December 20th, 2019, 06:07

You have it Robert

Built by the Weimarer Ingenieurschule m.b.H. in 1933.

**fabulousfour** · December 20th, 2019, 06:53

Thanks, Uli.

Here is another biplane.

**lefty** · December 20th, 2019, 10:01

Robert, I think that is an Avia BH-33

**fabulousfour** · December 20th, 2019, 10:20

Well done, Mike!
This is one of the prototypes of the Avia BH-33 which look quite different as the later production aircraft.

Over to Scotland, please

**lefty** · December 20th, 2019, 10:44

A monoplane...

**cthornburg** · December 20th, 2019, 13:56

Ikarus MM-2

Chris

**lefty** · December 20th, 2019, 21:55

Thaat's the one, Chris -

**cthornburg** · December 21st, 2019, 07:33

Should be an easy fling wing related to big name in aviation.

Chris

***Moses03*** · December 21st, 2019, 10:00

Originally Posted by lefty

maybe they are all too busy with Christmas preparations

Yep, a lot of that going on.

While we were out, was in a bookstore yesterday and saw this really nifty board game. You build your Golden Age airline up, plan routes, construct airports, figure out passenger revenues etc.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/...tion-ascendant