The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[Moses03]

Assumed it was Eastern European but did not find it because there is no photo in Putnam's Polish volume!

Page 587-588 details the 1924 Gabriel P7. Powered with a " 24 hp Indian two-cylinder upright-vee".

[Moses03]

No takers on the open house?

Okay, let's go roading!



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[lefty]

I think we are very close to our poster's present abode !

[lefty]

Nobody else biting ? This is the SAC Aerocar, NX59711, from Garland, Texas, around 1946. It flew, too !

[Dev One]

Mike, for me it didn't show up on my only reference (wiki) just the other single boom pusher 'Aerocar'. This one though never seen before,well done.
Keith

[Moses03]

Sorry for the late reply, yes it is the Aerocar. A pint for the Scotsman.

Nice photo!

[lefty]

No real credit due, Keith. A wee while ago I bought this addition to the library. It is a fascinating insight into the obsession that many people (mostly American ?) seemed to have about getting their cars to fly !

Have to say the idea of flying around in a car attached to a pair of wings with a couple of butterfly nuts gives me the shudders !

[lefty]

Here's a neat twin..

[Moses03]

Have to say the idea of flying around in a car attached to a pair of wings with a couple of butterfly nuts gives me the shudders !

Agreed!

Here is one that never flew so no good for any future mystery consideration. (Although the much maligned Corvair might have benefited from the otherworldly treatment!)

[pomme homme]

Now that reminds me of a modern day reworking of M. Leyat's automotive marvels. One hél[of]ica!

[DHC2Pilot]

Well, Mike's twin is definately related to the Cessna T-50. I don't have a pic of the Cessna P-10 bombing trainer variant however I believe we may be looking at it here.

[lefty]

John, you've cracked it with the P.10 Not many photos around, I reckon.....

[lefty]

BTW- I like your avatar Mike. One of those suicidal Nazi rocket ships I see.

Kevin, decided to give the piggy avatar a rest for a wee while - and instead show something of WW2 vintage, short, fat, noisy and liable to explode without warning. I just happened to be in front of an Me163 at the time............

[cthornburg]

another P-10 pix

Chris

[lefty]

Nice one, Chris. Thanks

[DHC2Pilot]

Here's a 4-engine job with a picturesque view out the front

[Moses03]

Hey John, I think we are looking at the Ilyushin IL-18 Prototype.

Another source: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Vdr4AEqRb9...l-18A_1-10.jpg

[DHC2Pilot]

You got it Kevin ....thought that the original nose might throw some off the trail. Almost forgot the lot I'm dealing with here.
Over to Texas for the next round.

[Moses03]

Everyone likes a parasol right? Should not cause too much fuss...

[Dev One]

Everyone likes a parasol right? Should not cause too much fuss...

Fokker F14, but I think it must be a modified version to make it a freight carrier, so do not know final designation.
Keith

[Moses03]

It is the F.14 Keith. TWA used it as a freighter for a time. Good show.

[Dev One]

Thanks Moses, the tail feathers gives it away as a Dutchmans design!
So still on the parasol theme, possibly an easy one.
Keith

[lefty]

Hmm, don't know what she is, but I'm not taking her up in a high wind.......

[Dev One]

Googling 'Parasol' will find her I think!
Keith

[wout]

Hi Keith
Would this be the Sorrell-Robinson "Cool Crow" homebuilt of the 1960s, a modernized Dormoy Bathtub? (N5087K)
If she is, the Parasol now resides in the Museum Of Flight, Seattle, Wa.