The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[lefty]

Computers are very sophisticated nowadays, and I am experimenting with a Smellovision plug-in.
It works only spasmodically, but when I clicked on Moses' pic I was knocked out by the reek of Gauloises with garlic undertones........

It is a Wibault 368 built for a speed/distance record attempt in 1937.

Right, with Moses' approval we'll move on to something which should be gobbled up VERY quickly !

[srgalahad]

you're right.. it shouldn't take long... esp for anyone who downloaded the Breda Zapatta BZ308 for FS9 -- registration I-BREZ

quick little beast it is too!

[lefty]

Wow ! The early (or rather late ?) bird swoops instantly !

Carry on, please, Rob. (actually I'll make that a wee dram )

[srgalahad]

Thanks lefty. At this hour any good drink is good - esp. on a cold winter day like this:

[srgalahad]

Obviously a non-tropical environment sometime between 1920-1935. Not a homebuilt but an aircraft operating in a commercial venture...

Did the snow put a freeze on everyone's search engines?

[Moses03]

Obviously a Canadian angle here somewhere.

[lefty]

I reckon it is Canada, although I have a shrewd suspicion that it occasionally snows in other places too.......

[lefty]

But we'll settle on a Huff-Daland Petrel.

[srgalahad]

But we'll settle on a Huff-Daland Petrel.

is your thirst never satisfied? Ops.. but of course.. a Scot...
well, have a beverage of choice lefty! it is indeed a Huff-Daland HD-19 Petrel 5 . used by Fairchild Aerial Surveys

[lefty]

Thanks Rob - had to search hard for that one - the only other bipe I could find with a similar strut arrangement was a Nakajima floatplane !

Something different - only half a pint for telling me what this was developed from.

[Willy]

Looks like it left the factory as a Beech 18.

[lefty]

Well that's the small beer, Willy !

[srgalahad]

[LINESTRIKE]not sure if that's the Pac Airmotive one or not (too tired to dig tonight)[/LINESTRIKE] but it's from a C-45/D-18 (small windows)

ok.. I got curious enough to find the Dumodliner. This is one of the first couple - the last one had a triple tail

I may have time to post a new one in the AM after a bit of sleep

We had to beat Moses.. they used to live in Del Rio, TX after serving with Commuter Airlines in the NE

[lefty]

Yes - this one was actually first designated the Dumod Infinité II - I suspect it became the Dumod Liner later and the third fin added.

[srgalahad]

then I offer you this - and don't think I have a "theme"



Opps.. sorry about the large "white space" .. in a rush to get to work