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  1. #20726
    MAK 123 - with extendable wings ....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sopwith Chameleon View Post
    MAK 123 - with extendable wings ....
    ...and for those skeptical of the concept, a small video of its 1930 predecessor
    https://www.ina.fr/video/AFE00001134...les-video.html

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  3. #20728
    Indeed, SC, the unmistakable Makhonine Mak-123. Congratulations to you and take it away with then next mystery, please.

  4. #20729
    Thank you - What's this ? A very "old" design from a famous manufacturer
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  5. #20730
    Quack! Curtiss-Goupil Duck.

  6. #20731
    Correct ! What today we would call a replica .....

  7. #20732
    Rgr on the replica!

    Something newer.


  8. #20733
    This particular angle is a little deceiving. The big biplane is a trimotor.

  9. #20734
    Started off as a bomber but performance was underwhelming. Didn't work out as a transport either. One built.

  10. #20735
    My first thought was this has to be a Frenchman, but the odd tail didn't fit anywhere.

    But I now think this is the Breda A.14 from Italy.

    Except for the tail that kite has quite a similarity to the Potez XXII

  11. #20736
    Early Breda it is.

    I like the biplane empennage particularly. Think Michael Palin from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. (Six seconds into this clip): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZvsGdJP3ng

    Over to Robert.

  12. #20737
    I love that film! "Three shall be the number thou shalt count".

    Here is a more modern interpretation of a biplane.
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  13. #20738
    Andreasson BA-4?

  14. #20739
    To be exactly, Mike, it is the Andreasson BA-4B.

    A Swedish homebuilt that was built in the UK and USA as well.

    Over to France.

  15. #20740
    Thank you, Robert. I apologise for not being sufficiently specific. The aeroplane in your photo certainly doesn't have a Scott Squirrel up front!

    Now, shall we stay in modern times for the next mystery ..... ?


  16. #20741
    Judging by the colour scheme, it is from Gaul. Every back garden has a flivver under construction.....

  17. #20742
    I thought it to be unique, but recently learnt that there is another example flying in the UK.

  18. #20743
    I would have thought that Walter would have had this one by now. It’s a single seater which enjoys a feature which means that it wouldn’t look out of place in the hangar of an aircraft carrier. It evolved into a better known, and more numerous, two seater.

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    The ST-80 Balade by René Stern and Marcel Staudt (F-PYQA). The UK example is G-BWVI .

  20. #20745
    Right on both counts, Walter. The only thing you haven't mentioned is why it might look at home in the hangar of an aircraft carrier - although the photograph that you've posted on another website makes clear that you know this! Over to the Low Counties please.

  21. #20746
    I don't think I would ever be truly comfortable in a wee plane with folding wings. If the clip, or bolt, or whatever it is that secures the wings, fails, then you are in a spot of bother.
    From the photo on the 1000 Photos site you refer to, Mike, it isn't entirely clear how this works.Perhaps Walter could enlighten me !

  22. #20747
    If you can wait until September, Mike, I'll ask the current owner to demonstrate the mechanism to me. He always attends the RSA rassemblement at Châtellerault (which is where my photograph was taken).

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    Quote Originally Posted by lefty View Post
    I don't think I would ever be truly comfortable in a wee plane with folding wings. If the clip, or bolt, or whatever it is that secures the wings, fails, then you are in a spot of bother.
    I think I would be more worried about the attachment of wings and connection of control cables of a sailplane, which are designed to be readily taken off & stowed in a trailer, let alone the assembly of one of those Rogallo wing things!!!! Percival Proctors outer wing attachments were designed for easy folding as were many DH types, & Miles too.
    Keith

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    Not a single-seat version of the Spezio Tuholer, but an original design.
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  25. #20750
    It's designer had aspirations !

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