The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[wout]

Hi Mike
Just a guess. The Sud Aviation SE-1210 ?

[Dev One]

It certainly looks like it having Googled it! What interested me though was the 'handed' air intakes on each wing for the engines - unusual methinks if all the engines were the same variety! ( Mind you nothing surprises me in French design anymore!)
Keith

[lefty]

It may be something to do with the fact that (I think) the inner and outer engines were of opposite rotations ?? My schoolboy French is inadequate - 'moteurs supraconvergents' - maybe Walter can oblige whilst quaffing his ale ?

[wout]

Hi Mike, Hi Keith
Keith, thanks for bringing the different intakes under our attention. I never noticed this before. Learning every day!
One explanation I could give is as follows: The Nord 1001/1002 and Nord 1100 were built with Renault 6Q-10 and 6Q-11 engines, the difference being a r/h turning prop (N-1001/N-1101 with 6Q-10) or a l/h prop (N-1002/N-1102 with 6Q-11). I reckon the location of the air inlet was therefore adjusted for optimum cooling.
In the SE-1210 engines the are reported as Renault 6Q-20 and -21. My assumption is that this was for the same reason.


Next challenge will follow a.s.a.p.

[wout]

A light plane with "familiar"" lines. Did not enter production.

[Dev One]

Walter, thanks for the extra info on the engines. Looking in my Larousse there is no entry for supraconvergent, so maybe its another of those alternative descriptions that occur in french when they cannot invent another word because the Acedemie Francaise forbid it!!!
Keith

[wout]

The designer was well known for other aircraft. I am sure he was a Rudyard Kipling fan

[Dev One]

In which case my guess is Bagheera!!!
If so its the SITAR GY-100 Bagheera by Yves Gardan - Wiki says two made & the first broke up in flight - if its not then dunno!
Keith

[wout]

Hi Keith
The GY-100 Bagheera it is
Other Jungle Book aircraft Mr. Gardan worked on were the GY-90 Mowgli and GY-110 Sher Kan, but these remained projects.

[lefty]

It never ceases to amaze me how many worthy chaps were prepared to expend so much time, energy, and cash, producing Piper and Cessna clones, which can hardly ever have shown a return on their endeavours... It's a strange obsession !

You got me on the Kipling reference though, Walter. I spent ages looking for a designer called Kim...............

[Dev One]

This ones a bit more ancient, but with you lot I suspect easy to recognize!
Keith

[lefty]

No takers yet ? This is a wee Brit - the Boulton & Paul P.41 Phoenix I.

[Dev One]

I didn't think it would last long or fox the experts!
Another wee dram for the Scot - Talisker or Snow Grouse?
Keith

[lefty]

Highland Park, please, Keith.

Here's a very easy one - quite an elegant machine, though, I feel. But make sure you get the model designation right !

[wout]

Hi Mike
Why a very easy one, if you require the exact model designation ?
I`ve seen the pictured aircraft called the AISA AVD-12 (by manufacturer AISA), L-10 (Spanish AF), I-18 (Iberavia which company started on the design), D-750-1 and D-750-2 (D for Dewoitine, the French designer Emil Dewoitine, though D-750-1 and -2 for the first and second aircraft seems unofficial and highly doubtful).
AVD-12/L-10/I-18/D-750-1 for the first example and AVD-12C/L-10/D-750-2 (the one in your pic) for the second machine.

Question in return. Do you know what AVD stands for . I donot, but very anxious to learn