Name that Flying Machine

[wub]

Looks like two F117 prototypes have crashed head on

[treadigraph]

I think it collected the fence during an attempted take off.

[Self loading bear]

I would like to see more of this plane
I have no idea how it looks from the side.

[SincoTC]

Originally Posted by dook

Dring Insect Plane.

It is indeed the Dring Insect Plane, well found!

" The insect plane, which is really a flying motor car is being prepared for her trials in a clearing in the New Forest . Its inventor is Mr T A Dring , aged 78 , of Poulner , Hampshire . For 25 years he has studied the flight of hovering insects , and is convinced that ordinary aeroplanes are built on the wrong principles . His machine has two sets of rotor vanes , motor driven , each projecting a stream of compressed air under the fuselage . If his theory is correct , expansion of the streams will lift the insect plane . Photo shows the insect plane being prepared for her first flight . 30 April 1934"

However, I do agree with wub's comment that it looks like two F117 prototypes have crashed head on

dook has control

[dook]

I don't think there is a side view.

[dook]

Thanks TC.

The list of bookmarks on my drive is getting very large.

This one isn't so silly and there are a couple of players here who will get it quickly.

[Self loading bear]

Ah
From the great times that pilot was still an outdoor profession.
When the skies were clean and sex was dirty.

[SincoTC]

Hmm, a folding-wing biplane! Commercial?

Those engines look like Curtiss watercooled V8's, so probably from the USA?

I think I've seen it in the Fright Archives but no more time to look tonight and probably gonna be busy in the morning

[MReyn24050]

The Barnhart Twin 15 aka Wampus Kat. Is it not?

[SincoTC]

Originally Posted by MReyn24050

The Barnhart Twin 15 aka Wampus Kat. Is it not?

I'm sure you're correct there Mel, that's the one I remember in the FA,

https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1922/1922%20-%200020.html

As dook said, not at all silly and even the quirky name is very appropriate for Halloween!!

[dook]

MReyn gets it with the Wampus Kat.

Over to you.

[MReyn24050]

Thanks Dook. Interesting challenge. Try this one

[sycamore]

American ,1920s, powered by a Szekely SR-3 radial.....?//

[MReyn24050]

Not American and late 1920s.

[dook]

'artenoon MR.

German ?

[MReyn24050]

Good Afternoon Dook. Yes she was from Germany.

[dook]

'spose the engine was as well.

[dook]

I don't usually do very long shots but was it from Raab-Katzenstein ?

[MReyn24050]

The Engine was of Italian design but the aircraft was not from Raab-Katzenstein

[dook]

So was that engine an Anzani?