Well he stuck a Bristol engine on the front..the plane is from a well-known smaller manufacturer, European (amazingly, considering its aesthetics, not French!)
Built a bewildering variety of models for various purposes, military and commercial. Mostly different in character but one or two did have this type of empennage.....
That elongated, slim rear fuselage suggests that René Fournier might have had a hand in its design. But if so, it's not one of his designs of which I am aware. Thus probably I'm barking up the wrong tree - yet again!
No Fournier connection a.f.a.i.k.,but it is French. I have subsequently found out it has been here before, some 10 years or so ago, when it was rightly I/D'd by our dear departed Dutch friend.
I'll leave it on for a while, then an early night - our annual escape to the sun is starting tomorrow.
Going to the Continental-page I found a French aircraft that I never heard of before. So I did some google search and, Eureka, it is mentioned at the secretprojects-forum.
This is the
Boillon JAB.60 Fulmo F-PKXS
and it seems to be the third (!) time to be listed here.
BTW: Strangely enough, if you type Boillon or Fulmo in the search function in the secretprojects-forum there is no hit at all, you have to do a google search.
Huh, it appears that I managed to overlook it twice whilst checking through Pierre Gaillard's book. The only excuse that I can offer is that, Mike, your photograph is much larger and much clearer than the photograph there!
Thank you, Robert. The penny dropped when I asked myself the question - in which European country did they make Cessna 172 lookalikes. It didn't take long after that!
Now here's a smart two seater, from the 'deep south', to be going on with!
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