The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

**pomme homme** · July 25th, 2020, 07:54

Thank you, Chris. It's a rare occurrence when I identify one from your side of the pond!

I don't think that the aeroplane below has been used here before. But fingers crossed .....

***Moses03*** · July 25th, 2020, 10:20

Looks like one of those Croses Pouplume types?

**pomme homme** · July 25th, 2020, 11:18

Not an avion formule Mignet, Kevin, but you're in the right area. Vis à vis success, this one might be accused of bad timing.

**pomme homme** · July 26th, 2020, 08:46

Not an avion formule Mignet .....

..... but an autoplan. This one definitely wouldn't appeal to topiarists!

**wout** · July 26th, 2020, 09:12

Ho pommehomme

A wild guess. The Lacroix-Trussant LT-51 Microplan?

**pomme homme** · July 26th, 2020, 09:23

Welcome back, Walter. Your absence has caused some concern!

It isn't the LT-51 Microplan - nor any other member of the convoluted family of aeroplanes with which Léon Lacroix and Dr. Barret de Nazaris were involved - although datewise the autoplan illustrated is almost exactly contemporaneous with the pre-war emanation of the LT-51.

**giruXX** · July 26th, 2020, 11:42

Louchet "Le Pyrale"

**pomme homme** · July 26th, 2020, 12:13

And also welcome back, Uli. Robert was getting a tad worried about you too!

Yes, it is M. Louchet's 'Le Pyrale', which was presented to the world on the eve of WWII - and, in consequence, was not heard of thereafter. And for those whose lepidopterological French might not be up to scratch, le pyrale du buis is the box tree moth whose caterpillars can decimate your box hedges - if box blight hasn't already done so!

Over to Germany. Take it away, Uli!

**giruXX** · July 27th, 2020, 01:52

I thought it might be time for a change (and a copter) and yes, it flew.

**fabulousfour** · July 27th, 2020, 02:49

Uli, that is the Dechaux Helicop-Jet from

**giruXX** · July 27th, 2020, 04:14

yes, that's the bird

**fabulousfour** · July 27th, 2020, 05:00

Thanks, Uli.

Floater time again, I don't think this bird has appeared here before.

***Moses03*** · July 27th, 2020, 06:08

Pretty sure it's the Romano R-5.

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6560192n/f3

**fabulousfour** · July 27th, 2020, 06:58

It is indeed the single Romano R-5.

Quite an attractive design compared to other French aircraft of that era.

Over to Texas

***Moses03*** · July 27th, 2020, 09:27

Thanks Robert.

A sporty biplane up next. (It has appeared before but as another version/variant). This photo is a new discovery of it in one of it's forms.

**giruXX** · July 28th, 2020, 01:32

some sort of a WACO

?

***Moses03*** · July 28th, 2020, 05:18

Not a WACO. It first showed up in 1927. Unfortunately the company was out of business by 1929 despite an endorsement from a famed aviator.

***Moses03*** · July 28th, 2020, 12:42

The airplane gained some national attention when it was spotted in West Virginia at Langin Field...

**fabulousfour** · July 28th, 2020, 13:08

I think this is the first Moundsville Lone Eagle X570E which was shown to Antony Fokker.

Quite different in its appearance to the Lone Eagle at aerofiles...