The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[lefty]

Sorry, chaps, been preoccupied a bit - just realised Christmas is coming up - off to the Oxfam shop for something for Mrs Lefty (who said Scots were tight-fisted ?) Now if I can just get last year's cards recycled..............

This is an Italian smoothie - the Savoia-Marchetti SM.80

I like the gear arrangement,swivelling back up under the wing root.

Am intrigued by the circular marking below the cockpit on the second pic - my only photo doesn't show this.

The SM.80bis was a twin-engined version with Pobjoy radials.

[lefty]

I think as Moses is out there on the prairie, snoring gently while the coyotes howl (I've been reading too many Westerns), we'll move on.

This one was up a wee while ago and caught a few out - let's see.

[sandar]

I get back from my long weekend break, to find that Lefty has posted a picture of the Agusta A.Z.8

[lefty]

You are right, Sandar, that didn't last long. to you.
Post away - I'm off to Edinburgh for a pre-Christmas lunch with some old pals. And I'm not driving either! :friday:

[sandar]

It may be that this stunningly beautiful :costumes: machine has been posted before. I can't say I know anything about it, except that it what might be termed as 'original'

[Moses03]

Good show Lefty on the floater.

Sandar's beast is the Vedovilli v.2 of 1908. Some planes you never forget!

[sandar]

for Moses. Quite right about the once seen never forgotten.

[Moses03]

Thanks.

Here is an interesting one-

[sandar]

Interesting angle to photograph from. Looks a bit like a Spartan UC-71. Not too confident though.

[Moses03]

Spot on! Over to Sandar-

[sandar]

Thanks for the brew Moses, wasn't over confident about that one though.

This one did actually fly, not very far, nor very high, but it did get off the ground.

ps, It has a brilliant name.

[Moses03]

Not being able to post an actual photo of the aircraft is right out! :costumes:

Maybe it's a German Dartfharter 1?

[lefty]

I think it is something pinched from the Tesco (or Walmart) trolley park..............

[sandar]

Sorry about the photo, there doesn't appear to be a genuine, contempory picture of this oddity. The real one did fly and the designer claimed it would have a top speed of 300mph. I have difficulty in believing that claim, especially as it was powered by a 75hp Curtiss OX-5 engine.

[Moses03]

Okay, a troll through Aerofiles produced this:


Scroggs

Roy B Scroggs, Eugene OR.
Scroggs Last Laughi 1/72 model (Claudio Luchina)
The Last Laugh 1930 = Similar to those dartlike paper airplanes we all used to make, this was a narrow delta-wing with about a 75-degree sweepback; 90hp Curtiss OX-5. It had elevons and twin rudders. The pilot sat in a closed cabin under the "wing" [10648]. Scroggs was a tailor—and somewhat of a visionary—who prophesized that his airplane would one day revolutionize the entire air industry. The creation was test-flown successfully at an altitude of 10' (that's not a typo!), and Scroggs predicted an eventual top speed of 300mph, but he, his airplane, and the last of his laughter eventually faded away.