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Thread: The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

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    Thank you Robert. Here's a tubby little number -
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    Hi Mike
    The unique Townsend A-1 Thunderbird (N794T) with the original Notre Dame back?

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    That's the one, Walter - over to you -

    (Robert, glad you enjoyed Garda - we had a good time there a few years ago - staying in Riva, which is very German - lots of beer !)

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    A nice tri-motor.
    Hint: Temper your enthusiasm, because it is not the often depicted other one.
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    Interesting, Mike.
    We had only a short visit to Riva since we had our appartement on the other side of the lake at Lazise.
    One thing was really weird: We had a Fiat with an Italian license plate. One time we drove onto a parking place and the man who gave the parking ticket talked to us in German. Still wondering how he did know about our nationality.


    Walter, your trimotor looks very Piper-ish but couldn't find anything more yet.

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    On the basis that it isn't the Piper PA-32-3M, that gave birth to the Senaca, could it be some sort of tri-senaca (although I cannot find any reference to any such conversion)?
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    I had not heard of this tri-motor myself until a couple of days ago.
    Sorry, but no PA-32 Cherokee Six or PA-34 Seneca connection

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    If one took a Comanche 260B and mated the fuselage to Twin Comanche wings... voila! (or any other combination of the above parts).
    A Twin Comanche with an extra 250/260 engine on the nose might work also.
    But who would do it and why? Je ne sais pas...

    Wiring and running the engine controls would be a PITA.

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    Quote Originally Posted by srgalahad View Post
    A Twin Comanche with an extra 250/260 engine on the nose might work also.
    But who would do it and why? Je ne sais pas...
    Well, your tax $$ at work... NASA Langley Nacelle tests 1971

    https://crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/historic/...d_Model_Tunnel

    Sure explains "who", but no explanation of 'why'. In lieu of a better designation, I guess it's the "Langley Test 325"

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    srgalahad nailed it
    Thank you for the very nice link!
    I found the photo of the "Tri-Comanche" on the very interesting site of Jason McDowell (https: // www.toopics.com/cessnateur).Lots of photos/info on unusual aircraft, events. If you have the patience, you may even find a photo of a Swearingen Metroliner with two small turbofans at the rear fuselage.
    (reportedly was just weeks away from a first flight).

    srgalahad, the playing ground is all yours

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    Thanks W.
    With temps 10C below normal, I'll opt for a hot toddy. At the same time I'll unlock the gates to the playground and make it Open House.

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    to keep us going.... A variation on a theme.
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    around 1952ish. Not Pilatus, but the other part.

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    The penny has now dropped. This is the Pontius adaptation of the Pou from somewhere in the

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    Hi Mike
    Often referred to as the Model 3 by John Pontius, California. Engine is a 36hp Aeronca E113
    Quoting Robert, the playground gate is wide open.

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    Following the "small and simple" theme,

    Not a one-off, too big for a suitcase and definitely not a flying saucer...
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    This 'petite soucoupe' hails from a place more known for a tragi-heroic Douglas tri-jet than for fragile flivvers.

    "To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
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    Gosh ! You do have to do a lot of detective work on this forum nowadays,,,,however Rob's clue led me to the Kari-Keen 60, from, of course, Sioux City ?

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    indeed the K-K 60, otherwise known as the Sioux Coupe, produced by a subsidiary of the Karrier luggage company.
    Normally I'd refrain from the Poirot adventure but the description on Aerofiles just made it unavoidable.

    A large one for your efforts Mike!

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    Thank you Rob. Here's a neat biplane -
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    Looks very SPADish
    Model 29 or 52? -> presumably the SPAD 52 (4 ailerons instead of 2?)
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    It is indeed the SPAD 52 F-AEED. Over to you, Uli

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    here is an elder number which, I think, didn’t appear here before
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    Uli, that is the AEG C.VIII in its appearance as a biplane (which was later converted into a triplane ).

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    I know (and agree)
    enjoy a glass
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