The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[pomme homme]

She put in an appearance here eleven months ago, Keith. I identified her then so I'll leave it to someone else to do so this time.

[Dev One]

She put in an appearance here eleven months ago, Keith. I identified her then so I'll leave it to someone else to do so this time.

So she has......must have missed that event when she first showed up!

[Dev One]

Have to call it open house until I can find something really obscure then, so its goodbye to the Hills Helvetia.
Keith

[pomme homme]

..... so its goodbye to the Hills Helvetia.

Hillson Helvellyn, I believe.

[Dev One]

Hillson Helvellyn, I believe.

Ooops - sloppy memory recall - something Swiss mixed with Cumbria...? Both have mountains methinks!
Keith

[Moses03]

Mike, looks like you are up as no one else chimed in.

[pomme homme]

Quite deliberately, I avoided an identification, for the reason given before, and only corrected that given by Keith. Hence me not posting since. But as no-one else seems to want to fill the lacuna and as requested by Kevin, here's something which I would have thought has appeared here before - but a search of this thread indicates that it hasn't.

[giruXX]

Winter LF-1 Zaunkönig me thinks

[pomme homme]

Clearly you have it, Uli, but I know it as the Brunswick Zaunkoenig V-2 (D-YBAR/VX190/G-ALUA/EI-AYU/D-EBCQ). Does your title come from the fact that it was designed by Dr-Ing. Hermann Winter?

[Dev One]

Clearly you have it, Uli, but I know it as the Brunswick Zaunkoenig V-2 (D-YBAR/VX190/G-ALUA/EI-AYU/D-EBCQ). Does your title come from the fact that it was designed by Dr-Ing. Hermann Winter?

I used to see her quite often at air shows in the 1950's, Shoreham, Coventry, & if a strong enough wind was present she would fly backwards (relative to the ground).
Keith

[giruXX]

Does your title come from the fact that it was designed by Dr-Ing. Hermann Winter?

Yes

On with an early jet:

[huub vink]

After lurking for many years, I finally I think I know one.....

The SNCAC (Nord) NC-1080 prototype for a carrier based interceptor.

Cheers,
Huub

[giruXX]

I am sorry to disappoint you, Huub

This one has nothing to do with SNCAC or any other Société National de Constructions Aéronautiques

[lefty]

Indeed, Uli. It's the Dassault MD.450-30L. An Ouragan with a difference !

(Huub, please don't stop lurking!)

[huub vink]

I think you all can imagine the disappointment here

Cheers,
Huub

[giruXX]

The big beer goes to lefty

but I'll keep another one fresh for Huub

[lefty]

Thanks Uli. I'd like to declare Open House and hope that Huub can come up with some dark secret machine from the Low Low Lands !

[giruXX]

appreciated

[huub vink]

You guys are just to good, so I had to check my obscure books to see whether I could find something suitable. I hope it hasn't been posted yet.

[MrZippy]

Looks like a Linke-Hoffman R.I or at least, close to it!

[huub vink]

History doesn't have any secrets for you. A cold beer for you and your turn to find something unrecognisable.....

Cheers,
Huub

[MrZippy]

Huub, Can I pass it back to you? I will be out of town for the next week or so with limited internet access.

[huub vink]

Okay, no problem. So here is the next attempt....

[Moses03]

That's a cool looking pusher.

[cthornburg]

Koolhoven NVI F.K.30 Toerist

Chris