The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[DHC2Pilot]

If it is the B.2, then open board gents (I much prefer being on the hunt). If not, then can someone dispel my notion of the misidentification?

[lefty]

Can't comment on the Great Farman Mystery - off my radar

Hunt this one down, dear boy....

[wout]

It seems the entire production run of the Rausch Star 250, this company also being responsible for the famous Hudstar.

[lefty]

It is the Rausch of course. Over to you, Wout.

[Moses03]

to DHC2 on the portly chap. I had it as a Farman B.2

[wout]

Should be easy now that I found the ignition key!.

[lefty]

This one with a side portion of beansprouts - a Shenyang JJ-1.

[wout]

It could be expected

Our gentleman from Fife is in control

[lefty]

Barely, Wout, barely. Sorry for the delay - been at a nice lunchtime jazz gig in the local village hall - Django Reinhardt-type stuff. Whoever said there were no famous Belgians........?

Let's go back - an interesting machine...

[Moses03]

Udet U-11 Kondor.

[lefty]

Ah well, I suppose the Udet was a pusher - not much chance of it overflying Texas without being shot down................ Over to you sir.

[Moses03]

Next clay pigeon loaded up....PULL!

[lefty]

Hmmm, the whole thing has an Italian Meridionali-ish feel to it, but the struts and gear have been lifted from a Fokker C.V-E. Add a de Havilland tail unit, and I fear we have one of those American one-offs built from spare parts.....

Photo quality makes me think it is not a Balkan horror...

[Ferry_vO]

It's a Eidgenössische Konstruktions Werkstätte (EKW) C.35, a Swiss aircraft designed to replace the Fokkers C.Ve. Looks like all they did was replace the engine with a Hispano-Suiza V-12..

Some great photos of Swiss aircraft here: http://www.sengers.ch/izueri/flugzeu...eug-museum.asp

BTW Meridionali did built the C.V under license as the Ro.1.

[lefty]

You're right, Ferry - didn't follow through on the detective work.

The Swiss did a bit more than just replace the engine, though - the whole tail unit is original...