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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

I know there are some early 1930's Hungarian designs with scalloped trailing edges but other than that...

The tail logo must be a clue, otherwise I think Lefty would have removed it?
 
Moses03 said:
The tail logo must be a clue, otherwise I think Lefty would have removed it?
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Not quite sure I follow the logic there ? No, the 'hirondelle', as fasm terms it, gives no clue to the name. But he might have hit on the correct nationality ! :jump:

It is a one-off, and a toughie. But not a true homebuild. Built 1947
 
1947 ! Wow it looks like almost 1928-32, I understand the one-off, but not a true homebuilt ?
It's a garagebuilt :), a parasol with what looks like a salmson engine... I have no idea
 
Well I said it was a nasty, and so it was.

It is the Williams (Mouriot) 28X, built in 1947 by l'Amicale de l'Aviation légère de Lyon (AAL).

reg F-WEAT. (Salmson engine indeed - there was another built with a Volkswagen motor)

Open house, please.....
 
Hi Mike,
Excellent choice the Williams X-28 and indeed a very unknown aircraft and not much is known, except for bits and pieces. Derivatives included F-PFUR (Miettaux-Ortolan T-23), F-WGGL (Williams-Ortolan M-23), F-WFEC (Williams MW-25), F-PFOC (Williams 28), F-WGYJ (Williams Motorfly AH-1), F-WFUS (T-24 Ortolan), F-WEAZ (MW-25).

I am not that strong in pre-war types, but please give this one a go
 
Okay SK-1 (1929)

Walter....you never cease to amaze me. You take a complete obscurity like Mike's Williams 28X and then you go and rattle off several offshoots of it, none of which I've ever heard of. Astounding.

I'm sure on the Okay, so I'll press on with this curious number....
 
John, Walter's knowledge of light aircraft is indeed a thing of wonder, only partly rivalled by Moses' ability to endlessly dredge up Transylvanian prototypes from his dusty (sorry, grainy) archives.........

As for your latest - is the Martian standing beside it a wee clue ????
 
DHC2Pilot is of course completely correct on the Okay!. :salute:
....and donot forget I admire YOU ALL all on your total knowledge of the older aircraft types. It sometimes (well, ALWAYS) makes me jealous!
...and my other handicap is that I am not strong on ULMs, Ultralights, Microlights or how you call them. It seems I need a registration.
 
Actually Kevin, you might be surprised by this one. This one would fall toward (but not over) the edge of the 'acceptable' realm here at SOH. It has AT LEAST one motorglider and sailplane as it's siblings. Pic is from 1979. It's something a bit different for a change. Besides, a lot of the birds on here were someone's weekend projects. I don't consider it an UL or an ML because it doesn't come from a designer well known for those designs. Judgement call - either way give it a whirl.
 
Well, I'll let my little social experiment fall by the wayside. This one was the Josef Borzecki JB-4 Skowronek (Uncle Joe's weekend project....LOL.....see Kevin, you weren't too far off!!) Interesting in that he built his own engines as well as the birds he put them in. Under his name he also built the Cirrus, Stratus, and Alto-Stratus glider/motorgliders.

Open house.
 
Ha, that was quick :) In fact I don't really know, I came accross an old interesting magazine where SFCA advertise the plane on the photo as a Lignel 10 ! the trainer but I got a set of 3D views from the same magazine that clearly shows the cockpit design of the same plane as a 20...
If someone got more infos on them...
:ernae:
 
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