The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[Moses03]

To be honest I'm not sure. This one is a bit on the "for fun" side as I don't know much about it.

It hails from a country that has not been represented in here before...

[DHC2Pilot]

I have yet another picture of this oddity, but don't have a manufacturer or model number....simply labeled as the RingWing.......

[DHC2Pilot]

Found it......appears to be named after it's designer from Belarus

The Narushevich.....no other information

[Moses03]

That's about all I had DHC2.

Have at it-

[wout]

DHC2Pilot is correct. I also have it listed as aircraft by Mr. Arkady Narushevich. I understand the aircraft had a 260hp Ivhcneko AI-14 radial and was built/flown in he period 1995-2000. Designer reported as a Mr Alexander Anokhim (retired Belarus AF colonel) and as builders Messrs. Narushevich and Anatoly Gushkin and also saw the name of the SKB Kamerton organisation. The aircraft is possibly now in storage (or in as museum?) in Borovaya, Belarus.
Registration or model designation was/is EW-067 LL

[DHC2Pilot]

Open board - no access to my files from work.

[wout]

Volunteers to have a go on this one?
Designer is very famous albeit for more conventional types. The initials of his first names are in the model designation. Time period: early-1960s

[DHC2Pilot]

"....first nameS..." (plural). Was that intentional? If so that's a BIG clue.

[wout]

Sorry DHC2Pilot. Did not want to be misleading.
What I meant to say was that IF this aircraft had been designed by William T.Piper (it was not, of course) the designation COULD have been WT-1000 (WT for William T.).
To help: there is a Piper connection (designer, not the aircraft) and the model has 11 in its designation
I cannot make it easier, sorry.

[Moses03]

This the Rover Canard?

Thought maybe Aerofiles came to the rescue with this entry. Not quite the same as your pic, but very similar.

Rover [N9799x] (Michael O'Leary)

1961 = 2pCmwM; pusher. Fiberglass canard delta design spotted by a young Mike O'Leary at Hemet-Ryan (CA) airport in the late '60s. Said to be a design of C G Taylor of Taylorcraft fame (nothing supportive was found in our Taylor reference file) and built at Ventura CA. Painted dark blue with white trim. Also reportedly flew briefly a few times, but not very well, and appears to have been abandoned. O'Leary mentioned reg of [N9959C], but his photo shows otherwise.

[wout]

Moses03, compared to you Sherlock Holmes was an amateur! What a beautiful piece of investigation, deduction etc.
I know this aircraft as the Taylor CG-11 by Mr. Clarence Gilbert Taylor of Taylorcraft fame and of course the Piper connection should be known to all of us.
It was almost certainly later referred to as the Product Design, Inc Rover (reported as a design by Mr. C.G.Taylor) and it is mentioned on aerofiles.com. The true registration apparently caused confusion as you already indicated. Aerofiles reports N9959C as registration, but the photo on aerofiles clearly shows the aircraft with registration N9799X. Both aircraft were reported with a 60/65hp Franklin 2A (2A-120B) engine and first flight (as CG-11) was October 1961. The story goes that apparently the financial backer of the CG-11 project took over, but not with much success.

Kevin, the horse and cart loaded with beer is on its way to Texas!
Just to get familiar with the taste

[lefty]

Been out curling tonight - Wout, you won't get much past the King of the Push-Me-Pull-Yous. I think Kevin believes the only place for that nasty, loud,rather dangerous bit of spinning wood is at the back !

Keep 'em rolling, boys.....

PS we won

[Moses03]

Thanks. Hate to let a oddball pusher get away. One of these evenings I'm going to make the drive to check out the DFW Curling club. Always wanted to try the sport!

Here is a very bulbous bomber with a pointy tail...

[DHC2Pilot]

Wout, I always find the additional info you post with the reveal interesting - thanks and keep it up.

[DHC2Pilot]

Moses, I believe your portly beast is the Farman B.2. I also think Avia France has this aircraft mis-identified as the F.120, which was a 3-engine dual strut braced high wing monoplane according to 3 different sources I have. Now there's something that bugs me - when multiple sources say one thing, and another set of sources say another. Let's get old man Farman on the phone and ask him.