The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux. - Page 917

Thread: The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

  1. #22901
    Yes, you have it, Robert . More precisely, it's the L.6A motoplaneur. Over to l'Allemagne.

  2. #22902
    Thanks, Mike!
    At first look that plane yelled "Fournier" but then the details didn't fit, so I had do dig a bit deeper.
    Strange that there are so few photos in the net from that type.

    Here is my next mystery, I have left a small clue in the picture to keep it a bit easier.
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  3. #22903
    Intended as a postal/colonial transport, 2 aircraft built.

  4. #22904
    Loire 11, methinks
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    gX

  5. #22905
    You think right, Uli, it is the Loire 11.

    Over to the Black Forest

  6. #22906
    on with an oddity
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    gX

  7. #22907
    HP 20 ( modified DH 9A )

  8. #22908
    We had the Loire 11 once before. Funny, I didn't think it was that far back!

    http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...l=1#post282152

  9. #22909
    Cheers to Sopwith Chameleon

    for the Handley Page X.4B (H.P.20)
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    gX

  10. #22910
    Thanks ! How about this string and cardboard effort ?
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  11. #22911
    I have it as the Khoel KO-11. Not sure if that is correct as I have no other information on it!
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  12. #22912
    You are right as far as it goes because this is a real mystery ship : listed as being constructed by Hermann Khoel and Ernst Von Loesse , in Weimar in i1933/34 , it is also suggested that it is a an uncredited Alexander Lippisch design ....

    over to you .......

  13. #22913
    Is it a bird or a plane? No, it's a plane.


  14. #22914
    Think I'll take the bus, thank you.......

  15. #22915
    Rudder? Naah, 'oo needs one of them!

  16. #22916
    The lack of rudder caused directional control problems. Flown in 1929 and not in Aerofiles.
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  17. #22917
    It originally was fitted with a Henderson motorcycle engine but then later flown with a Gipsy of unknown type.

    Not European either.

  18. #22918
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    So that's where the term "feather the prop" came from?
    Shouldn't it be up in the tree preening itself?

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  19. #22919
    Tried a search with

    aircraft henderson gipsy 1929

    and - Eureka! - got a result after scrolling down for a while.

    That should be the Gash Birdplane from

  20. #22920
    Robert.

    Anyone have the Meggs Aussie Aircraft volume 1? Really want a copy but it's mucho expensive.

  21. #22921
    Same here. I suspect Vols 3 and 4 may never appear - it's the same as the 'Aircraft of the Third Reich' shambles - low-volume, expensive specialist books are just not worth publishing, especially in this digital age. I wonder how many of the Oz books have actually sold - maybe a couple of hundred ? Some libraries will have 'em but not many individuals, I fear.

  22. #22922
    Now, that is a really hefty price. 229 AUD is about 150 € or 180 US $. My by far most expensive book until now was about half of that.
    Would love to see it, though.

    On with a nice parasol.
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  23. #22923
    Loring E.II

    I believe I have the Australian book but got it on sale for only around $40.

    Chris

  24. #22924
    It is the Loring

    Over to Chris

  25. #22925
    Please forgive me persisting, briefly, with the book publishing tangential excursion. I've noticed in France, over the past few years, a few highly specialist books being proposed for publication on a subscription basis, these being books which, probably, would struggle to find a publisher because their subjects are very narrow, of limited interest and unlikely to find enough purchasers otherwise to make publication financially viable from the publisher's perspective. This appears to have been done on the basis of the publisher proposing a unit price, calculating the 'break even' cost of publication and inviting pre-publication orders - and then proceeding to publication only if sufficient orders at that price are received to cover the 'break even' cost. Blue Ciel published Roger Gaborieau's 'L'Aviation Légère en France 1920 - 1942' on that basis. Inevitably the more limited is the demand for a specific title, the higher is likely to be the pre-publication order price - especially if the title is substantial in size - and this may mean that purchasers will need to have deep pockets. But this might represent the difference between the book being published and remaining a draft - and enable the title to have an existence as a 'hard' copy. I may be something of a dinosaur but I prefer, particularly when used as research tools, to have a such titles in 'hard' rather than 'digital' form. Furthermore, I suspect that 'hard' copies may better stand the test of time and have a higher chance of being extant a century hence than may be the case with the same title in 'digital' form.

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