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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Confident that the Walrus is correct so I will go ahead and post the next one. Don't want to hold things up since I will be away until late in the day tomorrow.
 
Well, unless my sources are wrong (!) I am 100% certain this is a Caproni Ca.97
This was another unusual aircraft, as the happy buyer could have the option of one, two or three engines ! This one had three Lorraine-Dietrich 130hp jobs.

So on, like Monty Python, to something completely different.....
 
Moses03 said:
Confident that the Walrus is correct so I will go ahead and post the next one. Don't want to hold things up since I will be away until late in the day tomorrow.
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You are correct, and yes it is out of the westland book, all my other ones which might contain any oddities are back home!
 
Haven't had much time to look at this one (been somewhere interesting today - more later) but the first obvious impression, i.e. American, I am beginning to doubt. OK, it's flash paintwork, spats etc, but the fin/rudder just don't look American, and sesquiplanes were never popular there.

And those guns? Tacked on for a movie or something ? They just don't look right !
 
My first guess would have been American too, now I'm thinking maybe from South America?


BTW. After complaining about my lack of resources down here while looking for books for my dissertation in the library today I happened upon Janes All The Worlds Aircraft, not just the current one, but about 30+ editions back to about 1927 :d:d:d
 
Assuming that is the 163 on display at East Fortune. No such luck seeing one over on this side of the pond that I know of. Very cool Mike!


As far as the mystery, I can only think of one other major hint (other than it's not from Eastern Europe) and that will give it away for sure. The gun placement is real.
 
Moses03 said:
Assuming that is the 163 on display at East Fortune. No such luck seeing one over on this side of the pond that I know of. Very cool Mike!
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I thought Duxford had swapped or sold a 163 with a collection over there?
Can't remember who though.
 
Is it another licence-built machine based on a British design Moses? There's look of the Vickers Vincent/Vildebeest about her.
The twin VGO machine guns may seem to indicate this too????:isadizzy:
 
lefty said:
Something for everybody up here, James !
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I'm not actually involved with the Skeeter thing now as he's no longer based at the museum.

Its an odd thing but it is a nice little machine.
 
Looks like Duxford sent theirs to Seattle. Didn't know that. The mystery is another Spanish Civil War refugee. The French SEMA 12 or SAB-SEMA 12 depending on your source.


This next one is easier?
 
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