The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

***lefty*** · March 22nd, 2011, 03:16

Dave, a wee hint - if you leave the reg. on, it makes it terribly easy to google it and come up with the answer !
In this case, I recognised the RAE Zephyr anyway, (honest) but it is quite OK to photoshop out registrations, service markings, etc as long as you don't alter the structure of the aircraft.

**Dave_Kent** · March 22nd, 2011, 04:24

Sorry guys, Thanks Lefty and please carry on!

Dave

***lefty*** · March 22nd, 2011, 08:36

Hmm, still smarting over Moses' Chinese horror - no mention of that in my Chinese tomes - BAH !

How about an odd chopper....

**Dave_Kent** · March 22nd, 2011, 08:45

This looks like the Dorand DH. 011 of the early 50s.

Dave

***lefty*** · March 22nd, 2011, 09:47

It is the Dorand indeed - over to you again Dave.

**Dave_Kent** · March 22nd, 2011, 10:09

Perhaps this one will be a bit more difficult than my last

Dave

***lefty*** · March 23rd, 2011, 03:18

Not heck of a lot to go on, Dave. American ? Thomas-Morse-ey ?

**Dave_Kent** · March 23rd, 2011, 04:25

Certainly a difficult view to work from.

The machine is not American, Canadian or Italian.

It was a service type in modest numbers for its time.

It was powered by a 220 hp 6 cyl engine and comes from a manufacturer that is not obscure but is certainly not among the best known of its day.

This photo is on the web.

Dave

***Moses03*** · March 23rd, 2011, 05:26

Has a German feel to me despite the roundels. Not sure at all. Would be nice to see the empennage if possible.

**Dave_Kent** · March 23rd, 2011, 06:15

There are other images available.

This one may be of some use. If not, I will post another in a couple of hours or so.

Dave

**Dave_Kent** · March 23rd, 2011, 09:14

The manufacturer is probably best known for an earlier product.

Here, however, is a nice photo of our Challenge machine.

Dave

***Moses03*** · March 23rd, 2011, 10:12

Ha! Knew it was German. A captured AGO C.IV.

**Dave_Kent** · March 23rd, 2011, 10:50

German indeed, well spotted.

A captured AGO C. IV

Over to you now.

Dave

***Moses03*** · March 23rd, 2011, 11:48

Thanks. In the first photo you posted, I though that was a gun sticking up from the front of the fuselage, not an exhaust stack. That led me astray for a while.

Oddball time!