The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[sandar]

Sorry guys, had a migraine today and have only just had a look.


My first thoughts were German and Dornier immediately sprang to mind, so did Grob.
I can't see any evidence of wheels, so that means a true flying boat, not an amphibian.

[Moses03]

I feel your pain sandar. Have suffered from migraines on and off since I was about 11yrs old. Miserable times.

This one is a bit obscure so I think I will move it along. It's a Poschel P-420. Was a testbed for the Equator P-300.


Onward with this dandy biplane-

[sandar]

I don't think I would have ever got the Poschel. After you revealed the answer, I 'Googled' 'Poschel' and only got three relevant results, two of which resulted in the same page (password protected) and one that didn't load properly!

Fortunately I don't get too many migraines, normally one, possibly two a year and, according to my doctor, they are mild ones (could have fooled me).

Now for a look at the mystery biplane.

Grumman(ish)/ Curtiss(ish) undercarriage, bubble canopy (Canadian?), possibly a Canadian car and Foundry FDB-1

[lefty]

Blast! Beat me to it - although I could actually claim it as I think it is FBD-1 !
Well done Sandar.

[sandar]

I have just browsed through a few pages of books and the internet and have found that it is variously described as FDB-1 and FBD-1. Dunno which is correct. Dyslexia or incompetence rules KO

[lefty]

It gets worse - Molson and Taylor's 'Canadian Aircraft' lists it as both FBD- and FDB-1 on the same page !

Anyway, fire off your next mystery - good to see you in the ranks of this forum.

[sandar]

As I am feeling my age today, here is another oldie

[Ralf Roggeveen]

Might be a Comte AC12 Moskito :switzerla: (1932) ?

[Ralf Roggeveen]

...I have a horror of being wrong & blundering ahead, but fairly confident about that one.

Have to go to work now, so here's mine - maybe very easy, though it's only just crossed my aviation radar as I'm into postwar airliners at the moment.

Congratulations to you US voters & President Elect Obama (I've heard he's very keen on Sim-Outhouse HWS & looks in here all the time, when not busy with other stuff!) I thought President Bush's message to him & your country was very dignified.

[sandar]

Handley Page (Reading) HPR-1 Marathon

I too, have an interest in post war civil aircraft

[sandar]

Sorry Ralf, forgot the beer.

The Marathon was originally a Miles design, by Handley page took the Miles company over and developed the design, hence the HPR designation (Reading being the town where Miles were based).

A version of the Marathon had a Pair of Armstrong Siddeley Mamba turboprops instead of the four DH Gypsy Queens, but neither neither version was huge commercial success. I think one of the Mamba powered machines had it's engines replaced with Alvis Leonides radial engines installed in replica nacelles to the prototype Herald airliner.

Peter Larkham has produced fantastic models of the Marathon for FS2004 and are available from

http://classicbritishfiles.com/index...28&func=search Just put 'marathon' into the search box

[lefty]

THis logging in business is getting to me - anyone else having to log-in EVERY time ?

As Ralf is away now for a bit, I think I can confirm that Sandar's Marathon is A.1 !

Over to Buckinghamshire for another rarity - I'm sure Ralf won't mind.

[sandar]

I have to log on every time if I shut my PC down completely, but normally I just put it into sleep mode and so don't have to log on.
It is not just this site this happens to. I thought it was the settings on my PC.

[sandar]

idiot, I forgot to post a picture

[Ralf Roggeveen]

That Marathon didn't last long! Thanks for the link, Sandar, will download the Larkham version this evening. Still can't see your pic, just the annoying little box with an X in it! But I probably won't be able to i/d it, as now at work & away from my books (boss safely upstairs for now).

lefty: only had the Log-on-every-time prob just after the Great Crash. Surely you can tell your PC to remember name & password?