The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[lefty]

Well done on the Koshiki, fasm.

Your new one is a Belgian, the L.A.C.A.B. GR8.

Time for a stinker - I will accept two different answers for this fighter ! (Although the correct one gets an extra )

[Moses03]

to fasm on the Koshiki!

[Moses03]

Napier Lion engine? Hmm.

[lefty]

Well spotted, Kevin. This machine is the licence-built version of one by a very famous manufacturer of those times..

[Moses03]

Has a Russian feel but not turning anything up.

[lefty]

Close. The original design was from Western Europe, this one further east.......

[lefty]

Right, nothing doing here. The machine is a Lithuanian Memel AFG 1, which is in fact an Albatros L65.

Here's a wee floater of some interest

[Moses03]

Well, now we know what Uncle Joe was doing with all that plywood out in the barn!

[& Co.]

Isn't that an Origami Special ?

Sorry folks, couldn't help.

I'm off for 2 weeks, Austria hier komme ich! Take care all.

[Moses03]

Sounds great Yann. Have a good time. Some of us are stuck in the blast furnace (Texas).

[lefty]

Enjoy the Sachertorte, Yann !

Kevin, before you expire from heat exhaustion, I can tell you that the wee floater was designed as a submarine accessory.

[Hurricane]

I have the very good mushroom book on japanese submarine aircraft and can't find any reference in there so it would appear its not from the far east?

[lefty]

I've heard all about those Japanese mushrooms, James ! No, this is European, and an early one.......

[Moses03]

James, I too trolled through some early Japanese stuff but then went with my second hunch and found Lefty's wee wet one:



LFG V-19 of 1918. Without the submarine clue I doubt I would have found it.

[Moses03]

Will be away until tomorrow afternoon. Hate to hold up the show so here is the next one-