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Hi sycamore, you mean as in Pou du Ciel style of wing? No mate, it's small but still a "traditional" biplane.

Sunday Morning Closure

Time to end this one. The mystery exhaust belongs to the Martin Kitten.
Open House.
Cheers

J.V. Martin K.III Kitten - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://i43.tinypic.com/91l9ac.jpg

Very interesting aircraft and challenge Graeme.

You should have let it run a little bit longer. The engine obviously was a two-cylinder engine and was in the process of doing a bit of research on Two-cylinder engines.
After your declaration I found the following details on the aircraft:-

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The Martin K-III Kitten was designed in 1917 by James V. Martin for the U.S. Army as a high-altitude fighter. It was fitted with oxygen tanks behind the pilot's seat and provisions for electrically heating the pilot's clothing. Unfinished at the war's end, Martin shifted his goals for the K-III toward the post-war civilian light airplane market. About sixty test flights were made in the summer of 1919, but with little success.

Despite its failure as a practical airplane, the K-III had several interesting design features. It is generally recognized as the first airplane in the United States to be equipped with an in-flight-operated retracting landing gear. The "K-strut" wing truss was intended to equalize the moments and forces acting on the wing support, as well as to save weight and to reduce drag. Although the K-III was a failure (only one was built), it does illustrate one pioneering aeronautical engineer's novel attempts to solve rudimentary aircraft design problems.

Single-seat biplane with one two-cylinder 45-horsepower ABC Gnat engine. Retractable landing gear.

G'day Mel.

French? The prototype LeO 451 maybe?

http://i43.tinypic.com/2h7e4ci.jpg

You have it Greame :ok::D You have control.

I can't believe that's a gun - a probe of some kind?

Mid -European..Czech,orPolish..?

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I can't believe that's a gun

You need to believe mate.

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Mid -European..Czech,orPolish..?

Not good with the geography sycamore, it looks Mid-European to me, but not Czech or Polish...

The engine is an Argus engine, possibly an Argus As 10 fitted to a Focke-Wulf Fw-56.

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Focke-Wulf Fw-56

Well done Mel. The old "Double Stosser" trick didn't fool ya for a minute! :ok:

Your control. Night!

Thanks Graham. Here is the next:-

"Don't sit there all day, Bill, we have work to do! They want to install the engine before we knock off"

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...psca60fcf5.jpg

or perhaps that should say:- Ne pas s'asseoir là toute la journée, Bernard, nous avons du travail à faire! Ils veulent installer le Moteur avant de rentrer chez nous.

Ou peut-etre,on dis`l`Allison (ou la Nene) est arrivee..Zut alors,mon brave,nous devons finit par le temps du the, ou le pilote d`essais ne voler pas dans cette T-33(ou CT-133) ...

Well my friend sycamore the engine was certainly a Nene but the aircraft was not a Shooting Star or Silver Star.:)

Hello Mel,

Just trying to get my eye in again and wondering if it's a Dassault M.D.450 Ouragan ??

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In the unlikely event of it being correct, I'm afraid it'll have to be OH. Still very little time to spare and I can't access my photobucket account at the moment 'coz we put our email into the cloud and all my address books and log-ins got trashed and I'm still sorting them all out again, sorry :*

No problem with your eye. It certainly is the Dassault M.D.450 Ouragan

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...ps9f7091bb.jpg

No problem with Open House I hope manage to sort out the problem.
Mel