The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

**Sopwith Chameleon** · December 24th, 2020, 10:20

Thanks Chris -Happy Holidays to all , and stay safe !
OH please

**fabulousfour** · December 25th, 2020, 03:53

A Merry Christmas to all of you.

Here is an easy one.

**fabulousfour** · December 25th, 2020, 12:24

Everybody still on Christmas vacation?

This is the first prototype of an aircraft which received a big Lycoming engine when produced in series later on.

***Moses03*** · December 25th, 2020, 12:40

Been a busy morning and afternoon. This a Do 27?

**fabulousfour** · December 25th, 2020, 12:44

Not quite, but close enough to me.
It is the precursor Do 25 of which two prototypes existed and which was developed into the Do 27.

Over to Texas

***Moses03*** · December 25th, 2020, 13:45

Oops, could have done better there. Whenever anyone says something is easy it never is!

Going floatin'.

**fabulousfour** · December 26th, 2020, 01:36

Could this be the Shaw Flying Boat from 1915?

**fabulousfour** · December 26th, 2020, 02:13

Found this picture of the Shaw Flying Boat in an ebay auction, seems to be the same aircraft and location.

***Moses03*** · December 26th, 2020, 08:09

It is the Shaw.

Not much built after this.

Over to Robert.

**fabulousfour** · December 26th, 2020, 08:43

Thanks, Kevin, not much in the net about the Shaw.

Let's try this biplane.

**lefty** · December 26th, 2020, 22:35

Stampe & Vertongen SV.22/215 Lynx

**fabulousfour** · December 26th, 2020, 22:56

Nothing more to add, Mike, it is the Stampe.

Slàinte

**lefty** · December 27th, 2020, 01:34

Thank you Robert. As with a lot of these types, identifying the engine set me on the right track, then 'Les Avions Renard'.

Here's something different - we haven't had a chopper for a while, and this is a nice neat little number..

**lefty** · December 27th, 2020, 21:37

In Aerofiles but no pic. Designed to provide cheap high-performance helicopter for private owners. Alas, reality took over......

**lefty** · December 28th, 2020, 06:40

Let's get this one out of the way. Helicopters were never really popular in this forum, although Walter occasionally threw one in..
This is the Meger Heli-Star from 1971. Based on the Enstrom.
OH, please, gentlemen.

**pomme homme** · December 30th, 2020, 08:34

It looks as if everyone is taking a Christmas/new year holiday from this thread. So here's something easy that, hopefully, won't last until 2021!

***Moses03*** · December 30th, 2020, 20:56

Looks like something from the Taylorcraft/Auster line.

**Dev One** · December 30th, 2020, 21:28

Yes, Moses, I would agree, probably the prototype Autocrat with the Cirrus engine?
Wishing you all a better & healthy 2021 & hope it brings a change of fortunes for those struck down with the virus.

If accepted as correct open house please. I like to look in to see what weird & wonderful aircraft have been made, but I don't have a data base from which to choose anything to baffle you stalwarts!
Keith

**pomme homme** · December 30th, 2020, 23:06

It's certainly an Auster and its roots are in the Autocrat - but it's not an Autocrat, nor is it powered by a Cirrus engine.

**lefty** · December 30th, 2020, 23:11

I'll second Keith's good wishes to everyone for 2021 - it just has to be better !

How about the Auster Avis G-AJXW with Gipsy Major ?

The clue here is the odd placement of the lower strut attachment point compared to all other Austers.

**pomme homme** · December 31st, 2020, 03:19

Lefty has it (

). It is the Mk.1 Auster Avis G-AJXW with a Gipsy Major. The other clue, if you scrutinise the photograph carefully, is that it has four doors to accomodate the four people that it was designed to carry. I think that it was the only four door Auster. Over to Scotland.