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Old 8th May 2011, 19:04
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Evening!
Still in the dark with this thing?

Polish?

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Old 8th May 2011, 19:27
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It has some features in common with the Romanian ASTRA-Sesefski.
Could it be a version of that?
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Old 8th May 2011, 19:47
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Not Romanian Ton, but you are geographically the closest - head west.

Not Lithuanian or Polish - too far north.
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Got me there. Good night!
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Old 8th May 2011, 23:15
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Closing down for the night now.

From the clues hopefully you will have worked out the country by now.

So evansb and noyade (and anyone else who may be awake), its down to you guys to come up with the answer .
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Old 9th May 2011, 08:25
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Good morning

I will be away from later today so it needs to be solved by then.

Here is a photo of the aircraft taken from the same source as the 3-view. Both are from the internet and come from a site I have used before. Note some differences between the photo and 3-view - in particular a missign wing strut.

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Old 9th May 2011, 09:29
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Is it Belgian, Ken?

Edit: something about those huts tells me Spanish, though!

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Hi Martin. Not Belgian or Spanish. Look at central/eastern Europe. Closest geographical guess so far was Romania.
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Old 9th May 2011, 09:55
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Hoepfner S.1?
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Not the Hopfner S1, and not from Austria. Head east!
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Old 9th May 2011, 10:22
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Some bouncing around is going on here!

Have not been able to find any Hungarian designs before 1925

Edit: unless Manfred Weiss' MW-1 through MW-4 were before 1927 and before they started with aircraft and aircraft engines for real.
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Have not been able to find any Hungarian designs before 1925
Well it is from Hungary! Not a Weiss machine though.
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Old 9th May 2011, 11:17
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Oravecz I, H-MAAB from Bela Oravecz.

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You have got there Reg. It is indeed the Oravecz I The one aircraft was built in 1923, registered H-MAAB. It was cancelled in 1925.



You have control RegDep
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Old 9th May 2011, 11:23
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Thanks skytrain. Great site!

Here we go


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Old 9th May 2011, 12:09
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First guess....Lancair IVP?
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First guess....Lancair IVP?
No second guessing necessary.

Volley to you
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Old 9th May 2011, 12:24
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Thanks Reg. Will have to be Open House now.
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Well, its terribly quiet, so I'l put up an easy one:

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Well, its a Sukhoi!
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