Hi Carlo
Thank you for the link.!
Next challenge is a small open cockpit, tri-gear low winger. Not a homebuilt!
Sorry for the grainy pic. I promise to post a much better one,once solved
Hi Carlo
Thank you for the link.!
Next challenge is a small open cockpit, tri-gear low winger. Not a homebuilt!
Sorry for the grainy pic. I promise to post a much better one,once solved
She was also flown with a cockpit canopy and tested one of my experimental engines.
Circa 1948, European and now in a Museum
Looks like a PIK-11, but I've never seen one with a tricyle gear?
Hi fabulousfour
Sorry, not Finnish. Country of origin is closer to where you live, just one border to cross.
In the museum she has a (military) green dress.
Hi Carlo
Sorry, not from France.
On most photos she has military colours and the national insigna stronlgly resembles those of my country (or v.v.).
Donot know for sure, but understand she uses the legs of a Bf-108 Taifun.
It's the BAK-01 from Czechoslovakia, with the Walter M-431.
http://www.vhu.cz/exhibit/letecky-mo...431-walter-mc/
Hi Mike
That is her. Now in theLETECKÉ MUZEUM KBELY(Prague)
As promised a better picture.
Your turn, sir!
Thanks Walter - I've always wondered about those Czech and Dutch insignia being so similar......
No surprises - another floater...
I believe we have the Liore et Olivier LeO H-15.
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k65682964/f3
to Kevin - I suspect that may be the only photo of the H-15....(here's where I am proved wrong !)
I don't have another photo of it Mike.
Another grainy flying boat-
A one-off and fairly obscure although it was mentioned in this thread within the past year!
With a chunky radial pusher, this looks American to me - would this be the Taft Kingfisher ??
Definitely American but not the Taft. This one appeared a year later.
In that case, one of the Rogers boats - looked at the RBX before and it didn't quite fit - how about the Sea Hawk ? (but it can't be - that had an inline motor...)
Not a Rogers effort Mike but it is from the same state...
blind guess: Mill Basin Super Gull W-1, perhaps?
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gX
That is it. And you were the one who mentioned it last March or so!
Apparently it stalled and crashed on a test flight in early 1929.
Oh, I completely forgot that. Here is another commercially unsuccessful attempt.
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gX
The front end looks a little familiar but that tail section...
It looks as if Gloster and Grumman met in the twenties ....... but what puzzles me more is what appears to be a petrol pump on the roof of the building behind the aeroplane!
OK, some extra bits: built as a Navy fighter by a small company, first tested on wheels, then on floats, destroyed during evaluation. No idea about the “fuel pump”, perhaps a turret clock. As usual for publications of that time the background has been “photo shopped”.
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gX
How about the Eberhart XFG-1 ?
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