The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[wout]

Hi fabulousfour
Butler Bat (Bat 2) from Australia?

[fabulousfour]

It is the Butler ABA-2 Bat from Australia

Over to Walter

[wout]

This certainly is(was) a one-of. Donot get distracted by the name on the truck in the background. She (the plane) is not German/Swiss/Austrian

[giruXX]

I have this as Aero Pony W, YU-ZBJ

[wout]

That is her giruXX
The Bane Aero Pony W was built using parts/components of at least 3 other aircraft. Fuselage came from a Piper PA-25 Pawnee, the wings from a Vajic V-55 and the
Lycoming O-435 from an Aero Model 3 trainer.

Your turn, sir!

[giruXX]

Thanks for the extra info, Wout!


Sesquiplanes are seldom. So this one shouldn’t bother you for too long.

[giruXX]

too easy or too difficult??



American from the 1960s

[wout]

Hi giruXX
Maybe both or neither. I will bite:
The Young Eddyo F2 (N5566V). Sometimes seen as Eddy-O. Design by Evert W. Young. FF November 1963. Two-seater with Lycoming O-290 engine.

[giruXX]

thanks for clarification

enjoy a drink with your bite

[wout]

This one appeared around 1986 and remained a one-of.

[wout]

This 2-seater has one of my engines. Reportedly she is from the same city/region where the same group (?) produced a line of other light aircraft if similar configuration.

[fabulousfour]

I hope my translation is correct, I found it as airplane number 7 red "Leader" by P. P. Almurzin.

[wout]

Hi fabulousfour
That is her. Named Leader (sometimes spelled as Lider). The other aircraft I mentioned is the series of Delfin light planes from Kronstad.

[fabulousfour]

Floater time again. I don't think we had this one before.

[cthornburg]

CAMS 52 but has been on here before post 12347 back in 2016.

Chris

Haven't seen that pix though.

[fabulousfour]

Strange. My search for this type in this thread didn't show a hit.

A had it as CAMS 60 but having read the posts concerning the CAMS 52 in this thread I think my source is wrong and it is indeed the CAMS 52.

So the baton goes to Chris

[cthornburg]

Thanks Robert

Here one the only two pics I could find with a known pilot/designer company owner.

Chris

[cthornburg]

I don't know the history of the aircraft but pilot is in Aerofiles. I assume aircraft is american

Chris

[Moses03]

No luck on my end Chris.

That engine/compartment looks suspect to me. Almost like a mockup.

[cthornburg]

Hopefully someone out there can find more info.
Caption read "borde-lons-monoplane" 1921
Pilot is Wally Timm

Chris

OH

[Moses03]

Hmm, can't seem to unearth a thing about the oddly named borde-lons-monoplane or Borde Lonas Monoplane.

[pomme homme]

I wonder whether someone with IT skills and equipment better than mine can decipher the text in the heart and the oblong on the fuselage just aft of the cockpit (? - I assume that there is one and that this was not a prone pilot experiment!) and whether this might shed any light upon this aeroplane?

Searching the internet, one comes across a copy of the second photograph with the following manuscript annotation:

'Wally Timms 1918 Bordon Mono Plane'

[lefty]

Yes I tried to decipher that as well....
AllI can add is another couple of SD archive photos of Otto Timms -

[fabulousfour]

The photo of the mystery is part of the James Hester Collection at flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasma...7629602216838/

When you scroll down a while you can find the same picture in a much better quality where you can download it in a better resolution:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasma...7629602216838/

I've tried to enhance the inscription on the plane a bit, is anybody able to decipher it?

Maybe the last letter of the first word is an "H"?

[Moses03]

The second word looks like "LON'Z" or "LON'I".

Thanks to Lefty's 2nd pic I guess we can assume it is a 2-cylinder engine? Or is that another cylinder popping out from the bottom.