Mercury / Meyo composite ?

Sorry, not the composite Short S.21 Maia flying boat and Short S.20 Mercury seaplane. The mystery aircraft was not built in Britain. The aircraft first flew in 1940.

Ok long shot, would it be the Sikorsky VS-44?

Sorry, not the Sikorsky VS-44. Not a flying boat. Not built in the U.S.A.

EB
 

Thanks for getting back; as usual it has been a fascinating trawl/history lesson, which, like trying to clear the attic, has thrown up some huge diversions.. triyng hard to see who would want to pitch for these routes apart from ...
wait a mo, think I'm getting it :)

How about the Breda Zapata BZ 308 as a possibility? Doh!


More likely the Cant Z 511 perhaps?

aviate1138 is correct.:ok: There is a Zappata connection! The long range CANT Z.511A hydroplane was designed by Filippo Zappata, who also designed a lovely post-war airliner. Later on in the war, there was a mission planned for the giant CANT Z.511A to fly to New York and drop propaganda leaflets, and still another mission planned to disrupt shipping from North America to Great Britain by dropping midget submarines off Long Island, NY, Nova Scotia, Canada, and Newfoundland. You have control.
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...640/z511-6.jpg

Thanks evansb from Lethbridge... Canada? near Calgary? Global Warming country? :)

And now for something completely different.......

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/n...icture14-2.jpg

And I have only just got Mel's clue!!!!! for the Cant...... :rolleyes:

Correction....."And now for something completely different." Monty Python's Flying Circus movie.........

Bloody cold. -25C yesterday morning. And snowy. And miserable. Do you know what a "block heater" is?

-4C and sunny right now at 13:30 local. Monday should be plus 7C and sunny. Spring is coming!. Massive temp. fluctuations in these parts.

Cf-101 Voodoo

Same country, different state. Not a Voodoo.

Apparently 18 were produced. Claimed a number of records during operations.

aviatte1138's challenge
 

Judging by the lack of response to aviatte1138's challenge it must have been a very secret aircraft. Although I understand it was the 12th design in the development of the aircraft in the process of replacing it's predecessor.
Mel

Lockheed A-12.

C2j

Well done C2j

http://www.wvi.com/~sr71webmaster/a12st.jpg

The A-12 single seater. CIA codename OXCART - some oxcart!

You have control.

Sorry for the slow posting...

Not French or Eastern European...

C2j

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...g?t=1236051015

Wild guess- Art Nalls Sea Harrier...?

If wild guesses are in order is it a Rutan machine?

Not of British origin.

Not a Rutan design, but just as different in its' day.

C2j

Something out of Dryden,with a bit of Germanic technology,or,the one with the Javelin`s nickname ?

Its got a rather low `g` limit,but a high speed ASI/Machmeter..

Martin Marietta X-24a.. http://users.dbscorp.net/jmustain/X-24a.jpg


Added to say I thought it was a Martin from the logos on the pedals, but a hint helped identify it..