The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[lefty]

Can't even see my own attachment......

[lefty]

Got it sorted. A Firefox problem - clicked on 'Page Info', under 'Media' was a box to block images from this site. Somehow or other, it had become ticked !

They just do it to upset old buggers like me.................

[DHC2Pilot]

I believe we're looking at an Argonaut H-24 Pirate.

[Moses03]

While Lefty was getting burned by the firefox, DHC2 swooped in for the kill.

Over to the Algonquin round table-

[DHC2Pilot]

It's about time to jump a few decades ahead to something a bit more modern

[lefty]

Oh dear. Think we need a new U.S. homebuilds forum.......

[wout]

I put all my debts on the Willie Mae (Model 9-260L) by the one and only Curtis Pitts.

[DHC2Pilot]

Wout has it. I guess I don't think of Pitt's as homebuilts since there are thousands of them around all built pretty much to the same specs. My bad.

NOTE TO SELF: Gliders - Bad. Homebuilts & Wannabe's - BAD. Ultralights - BAD.

Any other genre I need to steer clear of?

[Moses03]

Lefty was just grumpy this morning. The Mrs. must have had him out in the garden pulling weeds. Pitts is fine. Wout is proof of that!

NOTE TO SELF: Gliders - Bad. Homebuilts & Wannabe's - BAD. Ultralights - BAD.

Any other genre I need to steer clear of?

Pre-1912 or so should be avoided since there were so many obscure woody canvas jobs that all looked alike. Some gliders are okay though like the Nikitin you posted before. Kind of a fine line there.

[lefty]

Grumpiness is one of the few privileges of age. Apologies if I caused grief and anguish. I'm sure Curtiss Pitts ( was he not quarterback for the Albuquerque Angels ?) is a mean banjo picker too.

It's just that at the back of (recent) Janes there are pages and pages of racers and Piper clones built in Ohio back yards, all looking very much the same and all, frankly, boring. But that's a personal opinion. It's why I stopped doing the Airshow Quiz - they also kept slinging in ancient stringbags which I find equally underwhelming.

But I'm not that narrow-minded compared to a high percentage of Outhousers who think aviation began and ended with the P-51.........

Bring on your worst, gentlemen (ladies too). If it flew, post it. I shall moan no more. For a while, anyway.

[wout]

I think this is a somewhat obscure one. I sincerely hope that the forumer(s) with the correct answer can also provide some details, as I only have few. Its older than you think.

DHC2Pilot, remember that for many years (maybe even today) the number of homebuilts completed and flown far exceeded the number of light toys turned out by the various companies and wellknown types such as the Grumman American AA-1 (Bede BD-1), CAP/Mudry CP-230/232 (Piel CP-30) , Robin DR series (Jodel DR-11 etc.) , Sportavia RF-4/RF-5 (Fournier RF-1) started with homebuilt designs.

[lefty]

Gulp - if Wout says it's obscure, we have work on our hands. Dig out those dusty tomes on Madagascar's aircraft industry.....

[wout]

It is NOT from Madagascar or neighboring countries.
If someone has the September 1949 issue of FLYING, she (why not) or he will find a Pirep (Pilot-report)

[wout]

Not that I have that issue of FLYING, but found out about it. Any volunteers to check?

[lefty]

Oddly enough, I don't have a copy lying around either..... Wout, from that wee thumbnail it would be difficult to ID anything, and it resembles quite a few models of the period, but I have the feeling this one won't be in a book anywhere. A leetle clue, maybe ?