The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

***wout*** · April 27th, 2009, 07:26

Still cannot upload photos. Lefty, Ill be obliged if you can look for a new one.
Thanks

***lefty*** · April 27th, 2009, 07:44

OK - for the '30's fans amongst us (actually I think he's away just now) how about this overpowered-looking craft ?

***Moses03*** · April 27th, 2009, 10:05

Looks like a Kreutzer at first glance but the fuselage is more slab sided than rounded. Hmm.

Edit: Maybe the K-1 which I can't seem to find a picture of?

***lefty*** · April 27th, 2009, 10:22

Nope, she's no Californian girl.

**Ralf Roggeveen** · April 27th, 2009, 22:36

SURELY it's a Fokker - but I can't find it in my big book!

***lefty*** · April 27th, 2009, 23:27

Sorry, Ralf, it's from Moses' side of the pond - I know there were Fokkers made there but this ain't one of them !

***Sopwith Chameleon*** · April 28th, 2009, 01:10

Stinson Trimotor

***lefty*** · April 28th, 2009, 01:50

Not a Stinson.

***Moses03*** · April 28th, 2009, 06:17

Other than a Corman 3000, did not run across any high wing tri-motors of this size. You got me!

***lefty*** · April 28th, 2009, 06:32

OK, let's move on. This is a Saul Triad, from deepest Indiana, 1930. (Woops, sorry, Iowa !

)

Here now, going back, is a truly lovely floater

. An extra

if you can tell me where it gets its power from !

***Moses03*** · April 28th, 2009, 07:52

Lefty has mistakenly posted a pic of the Picadilly fishing pier!

***lefty*** · April 28th, 2009, 08:04

This pier, I can assure you, did get off the ground. (or rather the water).

***lefty*** · April 28th, 2009, 16:34

I feel a hat-trick a-comin' on here...... (My next one is a real stinker ..)

***Moses03*** · April 29th, 2009, 06:42

I can't figure out how the thing is powered, let alone the make and model. It looks like a buried prop in the pontoon but there are hydrofoil looking extensions as well. Even the large monoplane design is a bit unusual for this apparent vintage. Odd enough to be French!

Or maybe a submarine is towing it? Oh the humanity...

***lefty*** · April 29th, 2009, 07:33

OK, time for the humane dispatch - don't think it will be guessed.

It is an Italian Pateras-Guidoni torpedo plane (!) from 1912, believe it or not.

The motor arrangement is explained here

http://www.finemodelworks.com/arizon...s_Guidoni.html

All very advanced !

Here's one more - not quite so ancient