Name that Flying Machine

[Asturias56]

Interesting.... radial engines - but what is sticking out to starboard just above the tailplane?

Are we talking 1939-45 here?

[ex82watcher]

Japanese ?

[Asturias56]

I think it might be a Potez 631?

[Noyade]

Originally Posted by Asturias56

but what is sticking out to starboard just above the tailplane?

I believe it's an aerial mast - positioned so the dorsal gunner doesn't shoot it off.

Originally Posted by Asturias56

Are we talking 1939-45 here?

Yes - first flight 1941.

Not the Potez 631.

[Noyade]

Originally Posted by ex82watcher

Japanese ?

Not Japanese.

[FlightlessParrot]

I do believe it is the CANSO FC.20bis.

[Noyade]

Originally Posted by FlightlessParrot

I do believe it is the CANSO FC.20bis.

That's him FP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANSA_FC.20

[FlightlessParrot]

Sorry for the typo on the CANSA.

This one is a replica:

[Asturias56]

I think it's Richard Pearse’s monoplane - the replica is in a museum in South Canterbury?

http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/models/...ngMachine.html

[FlightlessParrot]

Originally Posted by Asturias56

I think it's Richard Pearse’s monoplane - the replica is in a museum in South Canterbury?

Pearse Flying Machine | Aircraft |

Asturias is right: Pearse's machine, in all its hypothetical, reconstructed, powered, airborne, but not controlled bamboo splendour.

[Asturias56]

Remembered an article I read about in last time I was though New Zealand.... otherwise it would have been a very long struggle!!

here's another one that didn't bother too many spotters

[Asturias56]

I think it was ordered and then cancelled (reasons unknown) after about 30 built

[Noyade]

I was thinking USSR but even went as far as China and Brazil - with no luck. The problem for me, was I kept thinking a curved windscreen was immediately in front of that square frame, making it a very small machine.
It isn't.

It's the Yatsenko I-28. Thanks for the nose shot!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yatsenko_I-28

[Asturias56]

I thought clipping the picture where I did might lead people somewhat astray... but on here you have to try SO hard

Yes it's the Yatsenko - never found out why it never went into service in numbers - it was probably a decision to concentrate on what they had rather than add another type to the production line early in the war - also haven't found a decent picture of it in the air..

over to Noyade

[Noyade]

Thanks A56. Good challenge - had me dancing around the bookshelves.
But I'll make it OPEN HOUSE for the time being.

[asw28-866]

Flew one of these once, funny little thing, and not much good at it's intended job...

[India Four Two]

not much good at it's intended job...

Towing gliders?

[UV]

Kittiwake. I flew in once too..... back in 69! OH if correct.

[treadigraph]

Saw the Nash Petrel development of the design at Lasham (I think) - not sure I ever saw a Kittiwake, though the prototype is owned by a chap living not far away in Oxted...

[UV]

Asw?? Where are you?