The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[lefty]

On the appropriate Wikipedia site, 'Caproni Ca120' is wondrously rendered by Google Translate as 'approximately 120 goats'.

[Hurricane91]

On the appropriate Wikipedia site, 'Caproni Ca120' is wondrously rendered by Google Translate as 'approximately 120 goats'.

If that is what Wiki says it is, who is to argue?

[Moses03]

Ca.120 it is!

[DHC2Pilot]

I'm tied up for a bit.....floor is open for anyone wishing to post. Also, does anyone know what year the CA.120 first flew? I'm guessing around '35, but I'd like to know the correct year if possible.

[lefty]

Looks like we can tell when it last flew........

http://www.avia-it.com/act/cera_una_...roni_CA120.asp

[Hurricane91]

Lefty, that Avia site is a treasure. Many thanks for posting the link.

John

[Moses03]

Rgr nice link!

Here is an easy one for the overnight hours. Please press on if ya know it.

[Sopwith Chameleon]

Martin-Baker MB3

[Moses03]

on the MB3.

[Sopwith Chameleon]

Thanks, .....this graceful bird is older than she looks ......

[lefty]

Oh dear, one of those Russian designation horrors !

The Semenov/Syemyenov or Polikarpov PM-1, or P-2, built by the Aviachim de Moscow, Aircraft Plant No 1. Flown by Chebanov. Cigarettes by Sobranie.....

[Sopwith Chameleon]

...............& vodka by Smirnoff - but for you

[lefty]

Thank you sir. Here's a gloomy, grainy, grim little three-seater..

[Moses03]

It looks like a French build with those crooked wings. Must be pre 1946, otherwise Wout would have showed up by now.

[lefty]

European, but not French. First flight 1949, so Wout must be elsewhere ! Busy fending off those stroppy persons in another forum, methinks, but I don't go there any more......

The prototype of this machine is apparently under restoration.