Keith you got it! Have a big gulp of your favourite
I was fascinated by those "invasion stripes" on the underside which make it so different from the mostly green upper side. The little rest was image processing to fool google image search.
Oh, these clever people who have been initiated in the dark art of photoshopping. I consider myself to be doing well if I manage to obscure the registration mark!
Not sure of the correct identity as I have it as the Cody IIc, but then there were plenty of derivatives I guess, so having to choose the winner it has to be..............Moses who was the first with a Cody answer.
Well gX really had the exact designation I believe, but have to go with the awarding of the beer. The tiny wheels on each wingtip were a clue to the Cody machines.
Much too kind Keith!
Here is an easy one that should not be on the board very long...
Thank you, Kevin. Although I have to confess that I identified it so readiliy because I had several images of it saved with the intention of using it myself! But as I cannot, here's an ugly brute made worse by a pixelatorily challenged photograph - although it's marginally better than the one copy of the same photograph that is available on the internet (for anyone, heaven forfend, who might be tempted to use google image search).
This has to be another Spratt design. I found what looks to be the same aircraft with the reg N910Z described as the 1939 effort by Spratt's son George. Odd thing is that the 1939 entry at Aerofiles shows this to be a powered design and not the glidery looking version gX posted. Also the reg if different. (Must be a pusher blade that the grainy photo is not revealing).
Hi Kevin
Li`l Trouble, this mix by Mark V. Horn. Collect Monocoupe, Aeronca, Tayorvcraft and Piper parts and (reportedly?) the former Cliff Midwing and end up with your own sporty cabriolet.
I am only somewhat puzzled by the fact that I have seen a photo with Bob Horn painted on the fuselage.
@wout: I am confused. Do your given constraints, i.e.,
• no Continental or Lycoming engine,
• not from the American continent
apply to all of these ca. 200 aircraft or just to the floater only?
Hi giruXX
Sorry for the confusion. I meant to make clear that around 200 were built in standard form (conventional gear) and with a non-US engine of 130hp to 155hp (depending on the sub-model). Since the floater is not US/Canadian designed, no reason to look at all those Cubs, Pacers Tri-Pacer and other Piper bushplane/floatplane conversions flying in the US/Canada
The floater is an Auster J/5G Autocar.
The J/5G was the variant also known as the Cirrus Autocar because of the 155hp Blackburn Cirrus Major 3 engine.
The unique floatplane was from Australia (VH-TTH) and first flew 1971. She was lost in 1973 and I assume that the designation J/5G-A1 was not official for her.
Bookmarks