The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux. - Page 874

Thread: The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

  1. #21826
    The more you look into Gourdou Leseurre, the more complex it gets - umpteen variants and sub-variants of the basic parasol - mention of one (the GL-21 C1 Chassis #6) with reinforced struts, which sounds like this one.
    Anyway, I have nothing on the drawing board, so Robert please continue !

  2. #21827
    Thanks for your offer, Mike, here we go with a vintage floater.

    BTW: According to the French Civil Aircraft Register the F-AIDS was a ... Gourdou-Leseurre GL.23TS.
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  3. #21828
    .... and just to prove Mike's point about French aircraft designations, the caption to the photograph I used (the work of a well known French aviation history author) is: 'Gordou-Lesseure GL-22 F-AIDS, à Soissons en 1935'!

  4. #21829
    I think, Robert, that this is an R.E.P. monoplane.

    One such (number 11) was flown by Henri Mollat in the Competition for River and Colonial Seaplanes (!) in Temse (Tamise), 7-16 September 1912.

  5. #21830
    And the beer goes to Mike.

    It is the REP (hydro-) monoplane from 1912.

    Please show us your next mystery

  6. #21831
    No water involved here - it's a bit more recent, too -a tidy wee twin -
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  7. #21832
    Pilatus PC-8 Twin Porter?

  8. #21833
    That's the one, Mike -

  9. #21834
    Thank you, Mike.

    Flivver, flivver, please forgive her .....


  10. #21835
    Carmier Dupouy T.10
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    gX

  11. #21836
    That's the girl!

    Over to you, Uli.

  12. #21837
    on with some kind of zebra
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    gX

  13. #21838
    I think this the MS 345 from La Belle France ?

  14. #21839
    you think quite right, SC I have it as 342/2 (with enclosed cockpits)

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    gX

  15. #21840
    Thanks ! .... Here's a sleek number ....
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  16. #21841
    Must be the only racing aeroplane with the Heston Gasometer mounted on its starboard wing!

  17. #21842
    - it certainly needed that extra gas !

  18. #21843
    This is another aeroplane with a non-PC registration, G-AFOK, the Heston Type 5 Racer. It flew - for all of five minutes. Maybe that's why it was called the Type 5!

  19. #21844
    Exactly right ! - over to you .....

  20. #21845
    Thank you, Jim. Here's something else with a wing for keeping the sun off its pilot!


  21. #21846
    Here, pre-war, it has a 40hp Salmson up front. It survived the war and some years later was modified, redesignated, gained a 105hp Hirth and a new registration mark. The latter wasn't cancelled until 2015, so it may be extant somewhere.

  22. #21847
    Here's what it looked like post-war, with the Hirth replacing the Salmson, or, at least, that's what the books say. To my eye it looks like a completely different, rather than a modified, aeroplane. Maybe that's why it was given a new designation and registration?



  23. #21848
    +1 on completely different aeroplane.

  24. #21849
    No, it's exactly the same, apart from the wing shape, the circular versus slab-side fuselage profile, the tail unit, the struts, the stub wings, the cockpits, and the entire undercarriage.
    Otherwise, it's identical....... Are you 'avin' us on, Mike ????

  25. #21850
    The second aircraft is the Guelton HG.2 from France.
    I stumbled about that one during my search but discarded the possibility because of the completely different look.

    In the secretprojects-forum there is mention of a Guelton Mouette, so maybe this is the plane we are looking for?

    What is really strange to me is that the first photo looked very familiar at first sight but that was probably sort of optical illusion.

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