This is the only (sorry for bad quality) photo I have ever seen of this canard.
This is the only (sorry for bad quality) photo I have ever seen of this canard.
The 4-seater had a Lycoming O-360 engine, was completed around 1980 and was cancelled from the register in 1992.
The canard is the Koch Mark 4 (Mk.4) by Wayne L. Koch. Registration N32WK
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Hi Walter.
There is an article about the Koch canard in "Sport Aviation" from March 1975 including two construction photos and a drawing.
You can download that magazine here:
https://dl.edoc.site/download/sport-...c3055635235149
I thought that it looked like a mini Storch. The Fieseler Fi.253?
It is the Fieseler Spatz (=Sparrow).
It is a pity that this neat little plane was born in the wrong time.
Over to you, Mike
If you'll excuse the intrusion, Mike, I would appreciate some clarification on the Fieseler 253, if Uli or Robert can help.
There appears to have been a major redesign form the prototype, which had a straight wing leading edge and parallel wing struts - Robert's version has a decidedly 'kinked' wing leading edge and V-struts ?
Hi Mike.
My previous mystery probably shows the Fieseler Fi 253 V5 which was tested with folding wings and so had a slightly different layout.
Found the following photo with folded wings on luftarchiv.de
Thanks Robert. Not getting anywhere with Mike's Klemmy flivver - lots of machines very close....
Hi fabulousfour
Thank you for the link to the Koch Mark 4. Really appreciate this!
Hi pomme homme
The Bassou Sport (F-WCZD) ?
If correct, do you have additional info on her?
Yes, that's correct, Walter - except that she was F-WCZO. She's the 45hp nine cylinder Salmson radial engined Bassou 'Sport' dating from 1948. I don't have much information about her beyond what was related by Dr Barret de Nazaris. In 1948, she was based at the now defunct Saint-Privat aerodrome near Beziers. She didn't last long, as she is recorded as having been written off following an accident at the Etang de Vendres, in the Hérault, on 4 June 1950, and never made the CDN or CNRA register. However her inception remains a mystery. She was the creation of Antoine Bassou, whose other claims to fame were his prototypical pre-war ULM twin boom and pod Saphir and Rubis designs. Over to you, sir!
hi pomme homme
Thank you for the very useful info on the Bassou lowwinger.
Next is a p;larasolwing which obviously has no electric starter.
This is the second of three LIGHT aircraft built by the designer, all parasol wing types and the only 2-seater in te family.
Numbers 1 and 2 had a native engine, number 3 one from a neighbouring country.
If this helps. The designer`s initials are the same as for (at least) 3 other builders from ghe same country.
Could it be the Léger RL.2, F-PHYY?
Hi pomme homme
The RL-2 it is (Salmson engine). The RL-1 had a Poinsard and the RL-3 a VW engine.
Other RL`s were of course René Leduc (Recordbreaking lightplanes) and René Leduc (Athodyd ramjet propulsion).
The forum is yours
Could anybody push me into the right direction where to find information about the Léger aeroplanes?
Couldn't find a single evidence in the net concerning the Léger RL.2, let alone its registration F-PHYY
Robert, I found it in Pierre Gaillard's 'Les Avions Français de 1944 à 1964'.
Walter, thank you. I'll put something new up in the morning.
Hi pomme homme
I donot know the name, but is this the aircraft built in Oran around 1956?
If correct, can you name it for me and do you have some background info on her (the plane).
You're warm, Walter, but you'll need to get a lot hotter - particularly as all the information required to identify this aeroplane is available on the internet - if you're going to nail this one. Yes, it is Algerian but it wasn't built at Oran or as late as 1956. However if it helps, since my last post I've found a better picture of it which I've attached below. I suspect that you've seen this picture already, and that it precipitated your last post, but I believe the caption to it to be factually incorrect.
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