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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Welcome to SOH Emilio.

Your mystery caused some discussion between Lefty, & Co and myself some time ago in our first mystery plane thread that we lost in a site crash back in Oct 2008. Maybe Wout, DHC2, Ferry or anyone else can have a go at it?:mixedsmi:
 
Welcome Emilio! Thow everything you can at us - the more difficult the better in my opinion.

My initial inclination was that it's a Miles M.3 although the windscreen isn't raked forward and the rear window isn't shaped the same. Hmmm........so probably not a Falcon. Searching........
 
Let's move along then. The Spanish lady is the Gonzalez Gil-Pazo GP-2.


Here is an oddball I unearthed from a aeronautical engineering book recently. Bit grainy, yes.
 
Before launching into Moses' grainy horror, I have to say that my references point to the Spanish lady as being the GP-4, originally registered EC-AFM, latterly commandeered by the Nationalist military as 30-20.
Don't want to start a fight here, but.......
 
Wasn't 100% sure. The cockpit windows looked like the 2. I think we had this discussion before!
 
Would this be the mysterious bomber designed by James V Martin in 1919 ? He was a fan of K-struts and wingtip ailerons - however I don't think this lady ever made it off the deck ???????
 
I hate to beat a dead horse but was the GP-2 built with two different canopy configurations? The GP-2 and the GP-4 don't match what I'm seeing in the picture. One GP-2 photo I have shows the bird with a squared razorback style canopy, the second shows your bird (missed it because I have it catalogued under Gil-Pazo and also under Gonzalez). Maybe this photo shows a prototype? Any thoughts?
 
Housekeeping

Firstly, a mug 'o ale to Mike on the Martin.:guinness: I just now saw that the Aerofile entry for it says it never flew. The book I pulled it from said nothing about it not flying. Apologies if that is the case.

As far as the Gil-Pazo goes, I'm staying out of the fray. :engel016:

Over to Scotland-
 
I'm a bit baffled - DHC2Pilot appears to have taken his pic of the GP-2 from p157 of Howson's Aircraft of the Spanish Civil War.

Further down on the same page he will find this
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Think we'll leave it there. Emilio, you have sure stirred up this sleepy old forum ! Well done. Will go and look for another.
 
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