The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[DHC2Pilot]

I'm hearing crickets....time to reveal??

[lefty]

John, on behalf of Kevin and myself (he is a little preoccupied at the moment).......

[DHC2Pilot]

Okay, that beast was a Cessna CPW-6 (a specially modified CW-6) for endurance racing.

Here we go.....

[Moses03]

That Sir is the Ford Executive of 1927.

That Cessna sure didn't look like a Cessna!

[DHC2Pilot]

Ford Exec. it is! As for the Cessna, when I saw it I couldn't believe it either, but I knew it'd be a good candidate for a mystery .

[Moses03]

Yes those are Gipsy engines...

Please press on if you know this little cruiser. Will be in and out tomorrow.

[Moses03]

Wow, no guesses? Though this one would be gone in a flash. Six built for airline duty.

[fasm]

A dragon, but I couldn't find what are theses engines...

[Moses03]

fasm- not a Dragon. Better go ahead and reveal. This is it's close cousin, a Breda Ba.44.


Open board!

[fasm]

AHhh of course, from this view it is less similar... but the front view was an easy trap (for me)
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The profile shows why he's design (at least) wasn't as successful as the dragon .


Here is something on water...
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[lefty]

I have a description of a Romanian flying boat called Stoika which fits this very closely, but can't find a picture.......

[fasm]

The originals are not romanian but not that far away.
But this one have been built by a major country for tests I presume...

[lefty]

I think it is probably Italian but can't track it down.
There was a lot of copying going on, and Macchis, Donnet-Denhauts, Loehners etc all looked very similar.

This one, however, has a very distinctive strutting arrangement, which is where my mysterious Romanian comes in. Have a read of this and you will see the only differing point is the unbalanced v balanced rudder. Fascinating. Maybe Mr Stoika defected to Italy !

[fasm]

Yes, very close but not Italian. It's not a country that famous for their flying boats... But at this period they sure knows how to build planes...

[lefty]

Hungarian ?