The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[Baragouin]

Thanks Walter - now here's a smart fellow -

Espenlaub E14 D-1570 1929
Cheers
BG

[lefty]

Wow ! That was quick, BG - you're going to have to tell me where you plucked that one from !

[Baragouin]

Wow ! That was quick, BG - you're going to have to tell me where you plucked that one from !

Hi Lefty!
Believe it or not I was just looking at my range of german aircrafts as your pic appeared hence the speedy response....please bear with me a little longer for my next mysterious item!
BG
and here it is:

[Moses03]

Interesting apparent split in the upper wing. Foldable perhaps?

[Baragouin]

Interesting apparent split in the upper wing. Foldable perhaps?

Yes I think so Moses....this comes from a strange (under many aspects) boot shaped country and was built in the middle twenties by a then rather well kn own company....
BG

[lefty]

Having recently visited a certain boot-shaped country, I flew in to an airport only a few miles from where this baby was born -it's the Gabardini G.50. Took a bit of finding !

Like Moses, I am curious about the split wing, also these gadgets ?

[Dev One]

No chance for me finding it then as Google comes up with nowt!!!
Mike - my guess is if it has a folding wing ort not, they might be aileron control rods - looks like ailerons on top wing only.
BTW what engine was fitted?
Keith

[Baragouin]

Having recently visited a certain boot-shaped country, I flew in to an airport only a few miles from where this baby was born -it's the Gabardini G.50. Took a bit of finding !

Like Moses, I am curious about the split wing, also these gadgets ?

Hi Lefty!
Yes as you correrctly state it is the Gabardini G50mc (monocomando) [ingle seater] it first flew in 1927 registered as I-AWAG (reg. n. 708). Unfortunately I have no information concerning the fitted engine and the purpose of the socalled "gadgets"....
Your turn Sir
Cheers
BG

[lefty]

Started off trying to i/d the engine, assuming it was a 'V', only four exhaust stubs showing, indicating a V-8 - but all the V's of that period were 12's or 16's. Am I missing something ?

Here's something a bit different -

[Dev One]

Started off trying to i/d the engine, assuming it was a 'V', only four exhaust stubs showing, indicating a V-8 - but all the V's of that period were 12's or 16's. Am I missing something ?

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Mike, thats where I started from too, but could not find any water cooled 8's that rotated LH tractor - there are some V8's out there but no links to aircraft.
Never mind - off to search for your latest!
Keith

[Moses03]

G'day mates. That would be the Wicko Wizard with the Cirrus II engine.

[lefty]

Struth, cobber, thought it might keep you occupied a bit longer.....

Over to you, sport..chilled tinnie for the Texan....

[Moses03]

Thanks mate.

The Texan has a transport to decipher. Apologies for the grotty photo.

[lefty]

Hopfner HV-4/28 ?

That's the second photo you have posted with the new Photoshop 'Plague of Locusts' filter. Weird !

[zswobbie1]

Under the wing & wearing hats to protect against locust poop?

[Moses03]

Thought the Hopfner would last longer. Spot on Mike.

[lefty]

It's becoming more and more dificult to find something that will last - we've all been at this too long !

Let's see who's first with this floater, whose pilot, judging by the aileron positions, is finding it a bit of a handful in those choppy conditions.....

[srgalahad]

Re: Gabardini G.50

Started off trying to i/d the engine, assuming it was a 'V', only four exhaust stubs showing, indicating a V-8 - but all the V's of that period were 12's or 16's. Am I missing something ?

Indeed a V-8 Mike. The other photos of the G.50 show full-frontal and full-side views.
http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contri...iani/1727L.jpg

After digging a bit I am fairly certain it's a Hispano Suiza V-8 (Sig. Gabardini used an HS in the G.8 IIRC). Going the long route around, I could find nothing solid about left-handed HS V-8s but there are a few that might be.. and clearly the HS in the WWI SPADs seemed ambidextrous - Rickenbacker photos regularly show LHT engines but others go right... (Custom order? factory of manufacture? they were made all over the place from WWI onward)

I guess the morning paper crossword was too easy this morning

[lefty]

Hispano V-8, eh, Rob ?? I'm sure you are right. Gosh, I wonder what's in my mystery floater ?????.......

[Dev One]

Hispano engines
The 8B series was used to power the earliest versions of the S.E.5a, all examples of the SPAD S.XII and SPAD S.XIII, front-line versions of the Sopwith Dolphin and several other Allied aircraft types, with its gear reduction easily identifiable in vintage World War I photos, from its use of a clockwise (viewed from in front, otherwise known as a left hand tractor) rotation propeller.

Found this in Wiki - seems to be the answer I had not spotted before"!
Keith

PS Sorry about the bold typeface - can't change it!

[lefty]

Nothing wrong with being a bit bold, Keith !

Someone's got to be a bit bold and guess my floater before I head for Dublin tomorrow - it's from a company which produced several models, fighters, bombers, transport, etc, none in large numbers, and none well documented......

[Baragouin]

Nothing wrong with being a bit bold, Keith !

Someone's got to be a bit bold and guess my floater before I head for Dublin tomorrow - it's from a company which produced several models, fighters, bombers, transport, etc, none in large numbers, and none well documented......

....Albatros?.....
BG

PS Enjoy your trip to Dublin

[lefty]

Thank you, BG, I always enjoy my trips to Dublin !

This floater is not an Albatros - it is however Western European.

[lefty]

Right, enough. This is the Romano R.3 'experimental seaplane' , 1926-ish, 150hp Hispano. Used for testing various different types of floats and float angles.

OH please, gentlemen - back in a few days.

[Dev One]

I would never have found that one!!!
My offering though - it might not last until you get back home Mike!
Keith