The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[giruXX]

to keep the thread going: OpenSky M-02

[cthornburg]

That's the one out of JapanChris

[giruXX]

I hope this huge floater is not a repeat of an earlier post under a different name.

[lefty]

No, there have been a few Lathams posted, Uli, but this one is the sole E-5, sitting at Cherbourg.

[giruXX]

Thanks for the clarifications Mike!

On with your next floater or other museum piece!

[lefty]

I try to go easy on the floaters - not everyone is obsessed by them !
This has been here before and was not easily recognised......

[pomme homme]

Is that the Paul Aubert PA.204 Cigale Major?

[lefty]

Very similar indeed, mike, but it is not the Aubert (which had a one-piece windscreen, amongst other things)

Actually Uli got it last time -more recently than I had thought ! It is French, of course, but hailed from a location a bit closer to you than the Aubert ! Halfway, actually.......

[lefty]

Uli, better reveal this, please ?

[pomme homme]

Hmm, that presumably puts the location somewhere around Blois. I've failed to find an aircraft manufacturer in that region that produced a high cantilever wing monoplane. Evidently Uli succeeded where I have failed. I look forward to his second reveal.

[Moses03]

I think it is one of those French Acronym jobs. I have it on another computer I can check later if no one reveals.

[lefty]

He's lying low ! It's The SCAM. C-50, F-WEAI, from the Societé de Constructions Aéronautiques du Maine in Pont-de-Braye (Sarthe)
Not much more information, I'm afraid. The French love of acronyms may not have been appropriate in this day and age......

[pomme homme]

Just to obfuscate the issue, it appears that F-WEAI was allocated to the second Millet-Lagarde ML.10, which was constructed by SCAM, allocated the designation SCAM C50 and given the name Milane II. It was a Nénadovitch style four place cabin pusher biplane - and couldn't look less like Mike's aeroplane if it tried!

It's a shame that Walter is not still with us because back in 2014 he had a photograph depicting Mike's aeroplane carrying the registration F-WEAI and, on its tail, the legend 'SCAM C-50 01' (q.v. https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/thr...rojects.19106/). It is also said that F-WEAI was carried by a Nord 2000 glider and a Super Guppy.

Yes, I know what you're saying. Only in France ..... !

[lefty]

This, Mike, is where Walter got that photo.

Don't know what the French equivalent of 'can of worms' is.... ?

Anyway, Open House, please, let's have something interesting.

[Moses03]

Interesting, yes.

[Moses03]

From a major company.

[Moses03]

It flipped over upon landing after it's one and only flight in 1911.

[fabulousfour]

I think this is the Bristol Racer Biplane from

[Moses03]

That is the one.

Over to Robert.

[fabulousfour]

Thanks, Kevin. At first I was convinced that this bipe must be American...

Here is my new mystery, a clue in advance: this is a European one-off.

[fabulousfour]

This type is scarcely documented, there seem to be only 3 pictures and a 3-view of it, however, it is from a well-known company.
First flight in the mid-1920ies.

[pomme homme]

It looks 'Klemmish' - but with those ailerons, elevators and rudder?

[fabulousfour]

Not a Klemm, Mike, not even from Germany.
You have to move more to south...

[lefty]

It's the Breda Type 2 with 250hp Isotta Fraschini motor.

[fabulousfour]

Well done, Mike, it is the Breda.

I find it quite astonishing that this type which seems to have flown for several years is so bad documented and so few photos are known.

Over to Scotland.