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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

I have a question concerning mystery aircraft.
May I post a photo from which I myself even don't know what it is, but from which I have a clue where it might belong to?

I'm asking this, because at the German Ebay currently a photo is sold where the plane looks somehow familiar, but I can't nail it down.
 
Thanks, Carlo :icon29:

Ok, here's the photo. The markings are not from my side.
Though the description says it is German, I think we can exclude this.
I'm quite sure that I've seen this plane before, probably in a different configuration. From what we can see, my guess goes to an American plane, probably with a metal hull. The plane in the background looks rather identical, so this is not a one-off.
I have searched aerofiles for 2pobfb, 3pobfb and 4pobfb, but with no result. If you look closely to the tail, you can see a number, the last three digits might be 607 or similar.

That's it from my side, but what do you think?
 
Robert, if you'd searched under 4pOBAm, you would have found it !
It's the Ireland N-1B. The early ones had open cockpits.

Thanks for the lovely floater picture !
 
Many thanks, lefty! :guinness:

Since there are no wheels, I was fixed to a flying boat.
I worked on the picture with my photo-software now and the number on the tail might be 4667 with a bit of fantasy.
This would make it to an N-2D Neptune according to aerofiles. In this pdf is a short article about Ireland planes where the 4667 is shown as a N2B with closed cockpit but with a description that it originally had an open cockpit.

Over to lefty. :encouragement:
 
Interesting - I don't have too many pictures of said machine, but most of them show the N-2 models as having smooth sides, whereas the N-1's had those longitudinal strakes. Maybe Kevin can enlarge on this with a photo from the vaults ?

Anyway, OH please for the moment. PH is very quiet - surely all those cuddly ewes will have lambed by now ? :sheep: Navarin d'agneau printanier - yum yum........
 
Apologies for the low profile. Lambing is finished. But since I've been busy making fire wood from pollarded oak and ash. And now I've got to erect about 1.5 km of fencing. Never a dull moment for sons of the soil, eh! But I'm keeping a weather eye on the forum, hoping for an obscure inter-war formule Mignet avionette to put in an appearance to give me a chance. Sorry, giruXX, but relatively modern whirlybirds are likely to have me running up the white flag before the paint's dry on the flagpole!
 
Thks giruXX :encouragement:
Next one is not a true homebuilt, but a prototype and the type was intended for certification.
Sadly she crashed early in the test programme. Would have been a middle-aged lady now.
 

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She is not on aerofiles and afaik never was in JAWA. And to make it easier, the last entry in te current FAA register leads to a (deregistered) BK-117 helicopter and friend Google does not help (except for the NTSB report).
That`s all the help I can offer right now.
 
Hi Norm :very_drunk:
Congratulations!. Very good research. Care to share how you found her?
The Spinks Model 10 aerobatic trainer. Designed by Maurice "Pappy" Spinks and indeed the aircraft Harold Krier lost his life in suring spin tests.
The NTSB report calls it the Product Design Inc. Model 10. Registration was N12851
Your turn, sir
 
Just memory. I'm a fan of Harold Krier and his bipes. I'll never forget when I heard he had died doing spin tests. This is the first picture I've seen of the airplane. Thanks to you for the info.

I don't have a new picture subject to submit so the floor is open.

Norm
 
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