Silhouette challenge

[RegDep]

Thanks RR. Sorry, but I am just a hitchhiker .

OPEN HOUSE!

[Ridge Runner]

No problem! You are very welcome!!!! Martin

[RegDep]

You may take note of the place where the first pic was taken. Mombasa, Kenya, 13 January 1972. She's been around.

[Lightning Mate]

'Artnoon RR and welcome RegDep. I have been unusually busy today and have just sat down for the first time since this morning.

I come back to find an OH. Can't have a stalled thread can we!

[Ridge Runner]

Mombasa, Kenya, 13 January 1972. She's been around.

Nairobi I think?

[RegDep]

Mombasa - Moi International (MBA / HKMO), Kenya. That's what the photo says. Go figure.

Norge C, LN-BWD, Finn Petter Berg

[Ridge Runner]

3-step floats, David. Unusual? Would it be north european?

[RegDep]

Gabriel Espanet's Nieuport IV?

You rotated the picture?

Finished 4th Circuit d' Anjou, 1912?

http://www.hydroretro.net/etudegh/nieuportflotteurs.pdf ?

[Lightning Mate]

Good afternoon to you Martin.

Yes, three-step floats are unusual, but were used on this North European aeroplane.

[Lightning Mate]

Gabriel Espanet's Nieuport (5)?

You rotated the picture?

Sorry mate, missed your post whilst replying to RR.

I do lots of things with pictures - this one of the Nieuport 6G hydro monoplane has been reflected.

Close enough - back to you.

Oh oh RR, guess what's coming next........burner go....

[Ridge Runner]

We have another person on thread who knows what he is talking about !!



I guess it could be ??

[Lightning Mate]

BTW, it's a pity we don't see the Stig today. I have several lined up on his behalf.

Might achieve 3500 post by the end of the month. Won't that just upset the Wizard of Oz!!!

[RegDep]

Have to OPEN the HOUSE again.

[Ridge Runner]

Not a burner in sight, David.....



Although the image doesn't show it because the rudder is deflected to the right, it is semi-circular - significant

[Lightning Mate]

If it's a glider it's very unusual with a cantilever wing.

Can't make out whether it's powered or not mate.

[Ridge Runner]

I have to also say this the image was taken part-way through construction. There were struts etc added later. Yes, a glider. A one-off. It is on the web .... deep in the bowels... This was a scan though

[Lightning Mate]

Then methinks it's WW2 vintage, maybe a one-off from Waco.

[RegDep]

WACO CG-4 prototype XCG-4, two built by Waco themselves?

Edit: Or, in fact XCG-1, 2 or 6. Cannot say which.

[Ridge Runner]

It was a "home-built". Not a yank. A one-off. 1920s I think, I'll check

[Lightning Mate]

It wouldn't be British by any chance would it?