The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[wout]

It is not American, but a prototype that appeared in Europe prior WW2. The same company built a modernized version in 1946 (again only prototypes 2x)

[Moses03]

Doh!

Alliet-Lariviere Allar 4.

The post war version: (Which appeared in our original mystery plane thread)

[wout]

:friday:
Excellent Moses03. It is the Alliet-Larriviere AL-04 (Allar 4) of 1936. My deep respect!
The picture you posted shows one of the the AL-06s at the 1946 or 1947 Paris Salon.

[Moses03]

Thanks. The AL-06 is one of my favorites of the twin boom pusher family. A real beauty.

Here is one I can try on you all with Lefty away...

[Moses03]

This one set a record or two in its day...

[Moses03]

No guesses huh? It is from a major European manufacturer. Will reveal in the morning unless someone is on the trail.

[Ralf Roggeveen]

Thought it might be Italian, but am now veering towards French - possibly some sort of Latecoere? Whatever it is, too big, not enough engines, not enough floats! (And did they build that airstrip on a mountainside?)

[Moses03]

It is Italian Ralf and they did build the runway on the side of a mountain. The downward slope of the runway helped the plane get up to speed with all the fuel it carried.

[Moses03]

Time to refresh. This one is a Savoia-Marchetti S.64. Two built.
It set records for distance and time aloft in 1928 and 1930.


Here is the next one-

[Ferry_vO]

D'oh..!!

The SM.64 reminded me so much of Balbo's SM.55 (Tails, engine location..) that I looked in the right direction but somehow completely overlooked this.....

[Ferry_vO]

I think Kevin didn't remove the US star on the fuselage on purpose so we would look in the wrong direction. It is however a Japanese Tachikawa Ki-74 'Patsy'.

What's interesting is that the people inspecting the aircraft do look somewhat oriental to me.

[Moses03]

Spot on Ferry.

Yeah, this one obviously was captured. Not sure who the ground crew are.

Over to you-

[Ferry_vO]

Here's one I found recently:

[Moses03]

Caspar C 35. One-off German airliner of 1928.

[Ferry_vO]

..And back to Texas!