The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

**wout** · April 5th, 2009, 02:03

The new one is a twin again

***Moses03*** · April 5th, 2009, 13:44

Thinking Eastern Europe here possibly...

***Ferry_vO*** · April 5th, 2009, 14:38

Looks like a mini Bf-110..

**wout** · April 5th, 2009, 14:53

It's West-European. The pre-war company changed names after WW2 (like so many firms in that country). Two were built. Design work started 1939, but first flight was only in 1948 .

**lefty** · April 6th, 2009, 00:23

Would this be the Bloch MB-30/Dassault MD303 ?

**wout** · April 6th, 2009, 03:36

country yes, type no

**fasm** · April 6th, 2009, 10:19

There is an Hanriot very similar but not exactly... but I don't know all types...

**lefty** · April 7th, 2009, 00:04

We're getting bogged down here, Wout -the more you dig into pre- and post-war French aviation, the more contradictions you find !
I'll have one last stab - the early version of the Bloch MB-800 ??

***Moses03*** · April 7th, 2009, 06:10

Haven't had much time to research this one. No excuse though. I think wout will be going for the hat trick here.

**wout** · April 7th, 2009, 09:11

The twin is the M-300 designed in1939 by Ets. Les Avions Mauboussin. However,construction only started after WW2 by Ets. Fouga & Cie (Mauboussin had been renamed) and first flight was in JUne 1948. The 4-6 seat M-300 was intended as air taxi, light transport, postal aircraft and had two 220-240hp Renault 6Q-10/11 engines.

new one is not Grumman, not Lake, not Goodyear, not Colonial, not Thurston, but its Amnerican and just after WW2

***Moses03*** · April 7th, 2009, 09:41

Wout's reign of terror has ended. :friday::mixedsmi:

This one is a Bunyard BAX-3.

**wout** · April 7th, 2009, 10:16

As always (at least often) Moses03 is correct. I will look for some more difficult ones.

***Moses03*** · April 7th, 2009, 11:22

That Mauboussin was a rare bird!

Here is another rare one of the passenger variety-

**lefty** · April 7th, 2009, 22:32

American, surely - bears similarities with the Chicago-Midwestern machine I think you posted a while ago. Can't work out which motors those are, though - two fives and a ten ??? Or is it a nine ?

***Moses03*** · April 8th, 2009, 04:49

Two fives and a nine and not from the USA. They are Gnome-Rhone engines but the airliner is not French!

**fasm** · April 8th, 2009, 06:26

Deutsh? it look's like a fokker universal, some kind of prototype... plenty room for cheese

**Ralf Roggeveen** · April 8th, 2009, 06:44

Originally Posted by fasm

Deutsh? it look's like a fokker universal, some kind of prototype... plenty room for cheese

Edam or Gouda?

**fasm** · April 8th, 2009, 07:27

From the wings shape Edam

**lefty** · April 8th, 2009, 07:34

If this is from the Moses stable, it is more likely a cheese made from bat's milk from the darkest caves of Transylvania.

***Moses03*** · April 8th, 2009, 07:37

Not a Fokker.

Originally Posted by lefty

If this is from the Moses stable, it is more likely a cheese made from bat's milk from the darkest caves of Transylvania.

The cheese thickens...

**fasm** · April 8th, 2009, 14:10

Koolhoven were used to put engines on the roof but nothing like this one. The wing shape match though...

**lefty** · April 8th, 2009, 23:58

Well I wasn't so far out with my Transylvanian special. This is a Bratu 220 from Romania.:Banane18:

***Moses03*** · April 9th, 2009, 04:40

Bratu 220 it is.

Over to the UK-

**lefty** · April 9th, 2009, 06:23

Thank you, Kevin. Something a little more modern, and, before anyone says 'light aircraft' this one had purely military aspirations...

**wout** · April 9th, 2009, 14:01

The Fletcher FL-23 of 1950. The aircraft was a design of well-known John W.Thorp (a.o. Piper PA-28 Cherokee and many other designs).
AFAIK the design lost out to the Cessna O-1 Birddog

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