The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

**lefty** · December 29th, 2019, 13:54

Thanks Kevin - generous as ever...some confusion over those Burnelli types, though.

No confusion over this ugly bug - she's been here before, but a long time ago - please proceed when recognised - (hope they had strong hinges on that tail section !)

**fabulousfour** · December 29th, 2019, 23:26

That is the O'Neill Magnum, Mike.

I believe we had that plane here not so long ago, probably posted by Chris, but can find only the entry from 2008.

**lefty** · December 30th, 2019, 00:13

Yes of course, Robert - I could only find the old post too ! Over to you

**fabulousfour** · December 30th, 2019, 01:21

Thanks, Mike.

On with another strange-looking kite which I believe won't last for very long.

**wout** · December 30th, 2019, 02:57

Hi fabulousfour

The Utility by ML Aviation Co Ltd from the UK. I think this is the Mk-1 version.

**fabulousfour** · December 30th, 2019, 03:29

It is the ML Utility!

Over to you, Walter

**wout** · December 30th, 2019, 08:14

A small floater cabriolet. She has no wheels.

***Moses03*** · December 30th, 2019, 19:36

Going by the back end of the car, it's early to mid 70's USA. (1974 Chevy Nova perhaps).

That is all I have.

**pomme homme** · December 31st, 2019, 02:40

Originally Posted by wout

She has no wheels

Nor does she appear to have any floats or sponsons, which might make for interesting take-offs and landings.

**wout** · December 31st, 2019, 05:14

This is the Puddle Jumper (N37BP) by Bryce and Joe Petersen of W.Virginia, ca.1980/1981. Engine was a 55hp HAPI/VW1600, mostly composite construction.
Reported as a scaled-up version of a 1/4 scale model with which the designers set several FAI records in 1978.

OH suggested, all agree?, go-ahead then

and for the coming new year, I like to wish you double of what you wish for me.

**fabulousfour** · January 2nd, 2020, 09:23

A Happy New Year to all of you.

Here is a mystery which shouldn't bother you for too long, but you can earn an extra beer if you tell me the location where the picture was taken.

***Moses03*** · January 2nd, 2020, 10:09

Happy New year Robert and all!

I'm seeing an Isthmian Airways Hamilton H-47 anchored near Taboga Island (Panama) about 1930.

**fabulousfour** · January 2nd, 2020, 10:15

Nothing more to add, Kevin!

Over to Texas, please.

***Moses03*** · January 2nd, 2020, 10:44

Thanks Robert.

Will follow suit, the chopper is not so difficult but the location is interesting. Can you name both?

**pomme homme** · January 2nd, 2020, 11:29

Hiller UH-12, I'd surmise. But where? Neither my geography nor my ethnography helps (although I'll take a stab at Sudan).!

***Moses03*** · January 2nd, 2020, 13:48

It is the Hiller Mike, but the photo hails from the land down under. 

How about a guess at the most highest latitude spot on the continent? (Think peninsula).

Edit: Mike, the board is yours of course. An extra pint for anyone who can guess the geography bit.

**lefty** · January 2nd, 2020, 22:05

Can never resist a challenge for a pint - it is Friday after all !
Did some digging and found out that one Hiller was used for bauxite surveying in Cape York - which is as far north as you can get in Oz.

http://www.taamuseum.org.au/TAAAircr...licopters.html

***Moses03*** · January 3rd, 2020, 04:08

Lefty is dead on.

***Moses03*** · January 4th, 2020, 10:20

If pomme homme Mike is out of pocket, Lefty please continue.

**pomme homme** · January 4th, 2020, 10:37

My apologies. Only now have I read the edit to your prepenultimate post, Kevin. Hitherto I'd assumed that the baton had passed to lefty, as he'd answered the hard part of the challenge. I think that equity dictates that this is how it should be. So Scotland, we await you!

**lefty** · January 4th, 2020, 15:04

It was only a supplementary, which merely required a bit of Googling, so the baton rests fairly and squarely in France. I have nothing for the moment anyway.

**pomme homme** · January 5th, 2020, 02:07

Well, I don't think that identifying a Hiller UH-12 deserves much credit but .....

Here's something that flew but in a singularly unimpressive manner. And it was plug-ugly (in the non Baltimore sense of the word) too!

**giruXX** · January 5th, 2020, 05:31

first flight in 1953 according to literature

**pomme homme** · January 5th, 2020, 06:17

If my understanding is correct, 1953 saw her only flights (and to use that word is to stretch a point). The picture shows her as a scrap heap queen in the following year. Bonus p[o]ints for identifying the source of the engines in the foreground!