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Thread: The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

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    Then let's try the WACO S3HD (the one-and-only NC14048)

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    The Waco it is.

    A Happy New Year to you all, we have already 2021 on this side of the pond

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    Thank you for the wishes and the beverage! For what may be the last challenge of a challenging year...

    Is it a bird, is it a plane (it DID fly)?
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    A rather grainy, primitive-appearing photo, but not as old as you may think. Power was a 60HP Salmson.

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    Dating to the late 1800's, the company (or descendants) exists to this day. Related products were made famous by a very well-known marine explorer.

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    The gondola is interesting. It looks like a partially formed aircraft.

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    The "Moto-Ballon" Zodiac MBZ-3. First flown 1937. Operated during WW2 by the French til 1940, and then by the Germans til 1941?
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    The only thing now missing is Jacques Cousteau!

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    Quote Originally Posted by giruXX View Post
    The "Moto-Ballon" Zodiac MBZ-3. First flown 1937. Operated during WW2 by the French til 1940, and then by the Germans til 1941?
    I see the New Year's fog has dissipated Very good and very complete! (something suitable for a winter's day)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Moses03 View Post
    The gondola is interesting. It looks like a partially formed aircraft.
    Essentially yes. Even a rudimentary wing ahead of the cockpit, conventional stick/rudder and even a starter for the motor.

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    on with this oddity:
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    Quote Originally Posted by giruXX View Post
    on with this oddity:
    IAe .38 based on a Horton Design in Argentina

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    DINFIA IA 38

    take a gulp
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    Thanks ! Here's a slender number ....
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    Caudron C.641 Typhon.

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    Hint.....when saving the .jpeg image, don't use the aircraft name as the title!

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    That she is over to you ....

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    Thank you, Jim. As dirigibles seem to have become of interest lately, here's another.


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    Mummy, look what Daddy's dug up in the garden !

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    Apparently it was the other way around. Daddy dug the hole in which to hide it (from Mummy?) during air raids - despite the fact that there hadn't been a war for nearly twelve years and there wouldn't be another for more than nine years. But maybe they thought that by writing 'this space to let' on its side, those naughty foreigners, flying overhead, would think that it was an advertising hoarding rather than a dirigible!

    p.s. I suppose it would be fairer to say that the hole was dug when there was a risk of air raids, which there was not when this dirigible laid low in it!

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    I think this is the airship AD.1 G-FAAX which was built privately for advertising purposes.

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    That is exactly what it is, Robert, G-FAAX lurking in the 'hole' of the former airship station which was RNAS Capel. Over to you, sir!

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    Thanks Mike, didn't know of the existence of the AD.1 until today.
    Quite interesting story behind it, I wouldn't have thought that there were - besides the AD.1 - only military airships in the UK until the 1980ies.

    Away from dirigibles, let's try this biplane.
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    From a European country where you not necessarily would expect military aircraft constructions.

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    According to some sources this plane was a modified/modernized version of the Fokker C.I, however it was not built in the Netherlands.

    Engine was a Mercedes.

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