ozbeowulf's challenge
 

Would this be the Vanguard Omniplane?

Congratulations, Mel! :ok:

It is the Vanguard Omniplane 2C. You have control.

http://xs122.xs.to/xs122/07494/omniplane.jpg

More and better pictures at this french site....

http://xplanes.free.fr/omni/omni-2.html

Background into at...
http://www.vstol.org/wheel/VSTOLWhee...dOmniplane.htm

You guys are too good. I'm gonna cut back on the clues next time. :O

Glenn

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Thanks ozbeowulf. It was the details concerning the engine and the reference to the specialised lift devices that led me to it.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...pitquiz296.jpg

Is it a sesquiplane?

Mel's Challenge
 

No she was not a sesquiplane but was a monoplane.
Mel

Early 20's - civil - single engine
Fokker F-2 perhaps?

Mel's Challenge
 

windriver This aircraft was late 20's - It was a civil aircraft - and had a single engine. It was not a Fokker aircraft, it was however a european aircraft.
Mel

Mel's Challenge
 

From out here on the wobbly end of this limb, it looks like it might be a Potez 32.

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ozbeowulf. Not the Potez 32 I am afraid, this aircraft was note from France.
Mel

Koolhoven FK.41?

Mel's Challenge
 

Not the Koolhoven FK.41 Bri. This aircraft was not Dutch.
Here is a photograph of the challenge aircraft's front cockpit the one shown at Post#464 is of the rear cockpit.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...pitquiz295.jpg

Breda Ba 15.

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Bri has it again it is indeed the Breda Ba.15:ok::D
Ba.15-light aircraft, developed by the Italian company Breda. The first flight of the prototype aircraft took place in 1928. The first aircraft was followed by a more successful version of the aircraft-Ba.15S. She was produced with several engines - Colombo S.63 output of 118 hp, Walter Mars 140 hp, Walter Venus 110 hp Isotta-Fraschini. Asso 80Ri 105 л.с. Asso 80Ri 105 hp. The Ba.15H was a Ba.15 with floats
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...ft/Breda15.jpg
You have control

Thanks Mel. Great challenge. That one had me puzzled as I initially overlooked the photo I have of a Breda 15 , the step-down nose version. The unusual pilot seating of the early Ba.15 would account for the elaborate windscreen perspex. Here is the next cockpit:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...40/6785970.jpg

Ercoupe? The early variant that tried to have controls as close to a car as possible. In unlikely event I got it right (Bri doesn't choose easy ones) it's open house as I'm off to an Xmas Party.:ok:

Not an Ercoupe, but not far off.

The General Skyfarer G1-180 designed by Otto Koppen?

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Looks like it might be the Stearman-Hammond Y monoplane?

Planegill is correct:ok::D The Stearman-Hammond Y-1S (Y-150) was a result of a U.S. Department of Commerce design specification for a safe spin-proof airplane for the private flyer. You have control.
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...r640/y1s-1.jpg

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