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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Aww - thanks Lefty, a nice old Calvados would do nicely, providing it comes along with a nice cup of black hot coffee.
Winter it is not yet in tropical Normandy, but a windy cloudy cold autumn for sure.

Here's anuvver pusher, though not a floating wun:
 
Annoying one, this, I know I've seen it but...........

Difficult to put an age on it, even, but when our resident pusher ace gets back from whichever TexMex saloon he's been languishing in, maybe all will be revealed !
 
I'm still trying to figure out why the Tadpole in Lefty's pic had Bellanca-like rudderettes and all the other pictures I found didn't.

No luck on the flying wing.
 
The Bellanca Rudderettes. Sounds like a Busby Berkeley dance troupe.
Can't shed any light on them, however - the Francillon Grumman book doesn't mention them.

&Co has scored a point here, methinks. Surrender time !
 
No surrending between partners of the Vieille Alliance, Lefty, but I understand that mystery leaves you clueless ;)

Any other taker ?
 
Nothing personal, &Co, but the Vieille Alliance was a load of tosh. The French were cozying up to the Scots in the thirteenth century, in order to drive a wedge between us and the English, thereby rendering Britain easier to invade ! Devious as ever !
 
Tosh ? I suspect the meaning but can't find the word in my Oxford...
Anyway, and as usual with alliances, it was just a question of mutual interest(s). The Scots did find some utility in the Auld Alliance at the time, don't you think ?
But doan worry any longer, you do NOT have the double scot-french nationality anymore (but you and your likes are nonetheless warmly welcome down 'ere) :D
 
We are getting perilously off-topic here, but Chamber's Dictionary defines 'tosh' as 'bosh, twaddle, nonsense.' I think you get the drift.

Anyway, I think Moses has pulled down the Lone Star flag over the Alamo, and has raised, as I have, a white one. Don't know who else is out there these days, but they have had most of the weekend, so maybe you had better put us out of our misery.
 
Back to non-perilous topic then, the mystery flying wing is a 1933 Nieuport Delage NiD 940. It did take off but didn't fly long.
Ssssllllrrrppp (sound of someone sipping a 100-year old Cognac) :icon_lol:

Quite a classy one, for a change:
 
Yes indeed!

I expected the Nieuport to be an easy one and the Hirsh to be a stinker - all wrong.

:icon29: for Moses03 !
 
Thanks for the golden ale. I know what you mean about what seems hard and what seems easy to guess. Sometimes I pick one out thinking I got you all for sure and it lasts about 30 min. :icon_lol:

Let me see what I can scare up for the next one. (I am at work on the office computer...shhhhh. Don't tell anyone). ;)
 
The man is definitely a Cold War Eastern Bloc spy.

This is a Shcherbakov Shch-2 of the Yugoslavian Air Force.

And Piglet, despite what you may read below, had nothing to do with this post whatever. (Annoying little gremlin, that.)
 
Thanks Kevin - needed that pint - have had a thirsty day trying to get a big piece of furniture into a small room via some tight corridors and stairs - getting too old for this sort of thing ! But it's there !

Here's one which shouldn't last too long.............
 
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