The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[Moses03]

This one was at the bottom of the archive steamer trunk.

Not anything from Handley-Page. Actually, you can strike the UK off your list...

[lefty]

Lorraine engines ?? I'm struggling here.

[Moses03]

Here is where it gets interesting (if not already). The engines are Hispano-Suiza but it's not French either!

[fasm]

Koshiki a3 an early japanese project. I knew I saw it somewhere...

[fasm]

Sorry to post without waiting for the confirmation (if I made a mistake please ignore) but I'm living for some beach adventure in a few minutes...
Here's another twin
I won't be back in the next days so proceed without me

[lefty]

Well done on the Koshiki, fasm.

Your new one is a Belgian, the L.A.C.A.B. GR8.

Time for a stinker - I will accept two different answers for this fighter ! (Although the correct one gets an extra )

[Moses03]

to fasm on the Koshiki!

[Moses03]

Napier Lion engine? Hmm.

[lefty]

Well spotted, Kevin. This machine is the licence-built version of one by a very famous manufacturer of those times..

[Moses03]

Has a Russian feel but not turning anything up.

[lefty]

Close. The original design was from Western Europe, this one further east.......

[lefty]

Right, nothing doing here. The machine is a Lithuanian Memel AFG 1, which is in fact an Albatros L65.

Here's a wee floater of some interest

[Moses03]

Well, now we know what Uncle Joe was doing with all that plywood out in the barn!

[& Co.]

Isn't that an Origami Special ?

Sorry folks, couldn't help.

I'm off for 2 weeks, Austria hier komme ich! Take care all.

[Moses03]

Sounds great Yann. Have a good time. Some of us are stuck in the blast furnace (Texas).

[lefty]

Enjoy the Sachertorte, Yann !

Kevin, before you expire from heat exhaustion, I can tell you that the wee floater was designed as a submarine accessory.

[Hurricane]

I have the very good mushroom book on japanese submarine aircraft and can't find any reference in there so it would appear its not from the far east?

[lefty]

I've heard all about those Japanese mushrooms, James ! No, this is European, and an early one.......

[Moses03]

James, I too trolled through some early Japanese stuff but then went with my second hunch and found Lefty's wee wet one:



LFG V-19 of 1918. Without the submarine clue I doubt I would have found it.

[Moses03]

Will be away until tomorrow afternoon. Hate to hold up the show so here is the next one-

[Naki]

First guess here --hopefully I am right ..a Tugan LJW7 Gannet or also known as a Wackett Gannet?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tugan_Gannet

[lefty]

On behalf of Moses, Naki, welcome to the thread !

You are, of course, correct with the Gannet - unless Moses found a Chinese copy - but if you look carefully you can see where he photoshopped out the kangaroo....

Over to you for a new mystery.

[Moses03]

Welcome Naki. You were on the right track but actually this is not a Gannet at all! It's not anything license built in China either. There is a New Zealand connection here...

Mystery is still on the board-

[DHC2Pilot]

Cockatoo Docks & Engineering LJW.6 Codock??

[Moses03]

Bingo!

Before Mr. Wackett built his Gannet, he undertook a project for Sir Charles Kingsford Smith in 1933 to build an airliner for a proposed New Zealand line. The result was the one-off Codock.

Over to DHC2Pilot-