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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Good eye Mike. This one had a variable wing.

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The designer also built the engine as seen here.

West coast USA with flight testing taking place in early 1935. Should mention there is no Aerofile entry for it but the designer's earlier efforts are documented there.

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Striking similarity to the Long Low Wing Longster, but can't find any evidence for a variable wing of what sort soever. :dizzy:

Leslie Long built also the Harlequin engine which should be the one displayed above.
 
You all are circling the wagons anyways. This is the Long Hi-Low Monoplane and it was equipped with the Harlequin engine. I have another photo of it with yet a different rudder shape.

Robert gets the half-pint for his efforts.:very_drunk:
 
lefty said:
I think ff has cracked this one - on following up I came across the link to the Popular Aviation article by Long himself.

https://books.google.com.eg/books?i...ce=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

My reading is that these were two different aircraft.
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..... or is it that there was one aeroplane with three different formats - strut braced low wing monoplane, wire braced low wing monoplane and wire braced parasol wing monoplane? The photographs which illustrate the Popular Aviation article show that at least the strut braced low wing and the wire braced parasol wing monoplane bear the same number - 12776 - on the rudder.
 
Interesting Mike. I did not notice the same reg on the different layouts. I assumed the Hi-Low was it's own design. Maybe Les used the main fuselage to try several other ideas.
 
Or maybe, Kevin, like the Clarke Cheetah, it was designed to have interchangeable formats. That appears to be suggested by the article that Robert found.

And Robert's latest image looks like a Farman Goliath - but it can't be as that would be too simple (and what's more, the tail feathers are wrong for that)!
 
Thanks Robert - here's something smaller...another slider....
 

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