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

Are we talking 1939-45 here?

Japanese ?

I think it might be a Potez 631?

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

Yes - first flight 1941.

Not the Potez 631.

Not Japanese.

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

That's him FP. :ok:

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


https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....f180bbf568.jpg

Sorry for the typo on the CANSA.

This one is a replica:

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....117bb279f2.jpg

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

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

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

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

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....a5ce5627eb.jpg

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....10424d53c0.jpg
I think it was ordered and then cancelled (reasons unknown) after about 30 built

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

I thought clipping the picture where I did might lead people somewhat astray... :E 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

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

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

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....0d5d48817f.jpg

Towing gliders?

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

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...

Asw?? Where are you?