The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[sandar]

From what I can find regarding the two L&P trainers, the one I posted is supposed to be powered by a 100hp Anzani, I say supposed, because the 100hp Anzani of the time was a 10 cylinder radial, but it doesn't look very much like one in the photo. Another was powered by an 80hp Anzani, but this engine was not approved for commercial use in Britain.
I have also found reference to L&P Training Biplane of and a L&P School Biplane wonder if that explains the two different models.

[lefty]

It gets worse. Bruce describes two aircraft (a) the Biplane Type No4, dating from 1916. 50 hp Gnome rotary. (b) the Biplane - the one I posted, also 1916, larger and with an 80hp Anzani.

He carries on to say that after the Armistice, five of the latter came on to the Civil Register, and G-EAQW was fitted then with a 100hp Anzani.

I doubt we will find a contemporary to give us the whole story !

Anyway, been busy today and have not had much time to research your large lady. The gentlemen beside her look a bit American...............

[Moses03]

Like Lefty said, I have seen that one before...

[sandar]

From what I can see of the engine in the photo I posted, it does not look like an Anzani radial, or a radial of any sort.

Does Moses know the identity of the large lady?

[Moses03]

I give. Prolly going to get annoyed when the answer is revealed! :costumes:

[sandar]

Don't know about annoyed, Moses, but you may benefit from the use of a later, post WWII invention of the brothers who built this machine.

It was built at the end of The Great War by seven brothers, in California. Unfortunately one brother was killed when the wing failed and the machine crashed. It was the first, or so it is claimed, cabin monoplane in the USA.

http://www.1000aircraftphotos.com/Co...maker/6628.htm


The company is now famous throughout the world for the product that now carried their name and that is..........

Jacuzzi and the mystery is the jacuzzi J-7.

Time for a long soak in a whirlpool

[sandar]

I think I am geting the hang of this mystery thingy:costumes:. Here is a much more modern type.

[lefty]

Now this one is an old faithful, and Moses would be on it in a flash were he awake. (He loves his pushers - but he's working on the knife & fork )

It's the Stearman-Hammond Y-1S.

[sandar]

for Lefty. I thought it would be easy, or at least hoped it would be as the curse of the weekend is upon us (the wife wants to go shopping).

I hate shopping, especially this time of the year when manners are left behind. Personally I would like to see Christmas moved to a time of year when the shops aren't as busy.

I see the curse of ghost edits is still with us.

[lefty]

Well, I decided, I buy just about everything else on the net, why not Christmas presents? It is really quite painless (until the Visa statement comes in, that is)

Anyway, thanks for slinging in a friendly one, Sandar, so I will respond with an absolute gold-plated stinker. An aircraft with a totally unique name, in keeping with its natural beauty............................ (Moses is going to love this one. )

[sandar]

I do most of my Christmas shopping online, but as the wife doesn't drive, I have to take her. It is not that I am lazy, but since an accident left me unable to walk very far, I have to use an wheelchair which is a nightmare in a busy shopping centre and even worse on an old fashioned High Street.

As for the handsome machine, I can confidently claim it as a W.T.F Izzet.

[lefty]

Sadly it's not an Izzet, nor is it a Nora Batty MkIII.

It is a product of one of the earliest and quite famous aviation companies, from a land famed for its beauteous machines.............................

[sandar]

Noeye Deere

[Moses03]

Well, I just happen to have that very picture....on my work computer and can't remember the name. Blast! Lets see if I can jog my memory...

[Moses03]

Booyah! Voisin Creme de Menthe of 1916. I knew that tail had to be a Voisin design.