Sorry, but it isn't.

Is there any flight test report on the Tuscar? I wonder about its inherent flight stability. Normaly tailless aircraft or flying wings need a significant wash-out on the tips, or an s-shaped airfoil to compensate the nose-up moment, but neither is visible in the side view. Has anybody an idea on the flight stability?

Lawrence engine?

Good morning sablatnic.

German engine.

That would be the Haacke HFM-2 air-cooled flat twin engine, 22 kW (30 hp) and fitted to the Dzialowski D.K.D.1 aircraft from Poland.

MReyn gets it with the Dzialwski DKD-1.

Over to you.

Thanks Dook. Here is the next:-

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....d288c33817.jpg

It was the Driggs Card Model 2. You have control.

Thanks.
Lovely word to say; sesquiplane.

Having nothing prepared I call

OH

Ah! Yes! Of course! A 1922 Phutney-Creech T Mk IV Aerial Land Yacht!

I never fail to be amazed at the insanely esoteric knowledge of some of the posters here. The last half dozen types I've never heard of and I thought I was a bit of an anorak...

Oh well, back to obscurity!

keep 'em coming!

Here is one more for Eager Mel.
Dust off your anorak and give it a try.
Bonus toilet rolls for the Caption competition

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....62e1455ae.jpeg

American? Looks awful TBH

Is it a glider ?

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
I will see if I can find some more flattering pictures.
Non American

I know that I said that I wouldn't play any more but I have always had a soft spot for the De Schelde Scheldemusch and Scheldemeeuw and I think, SLB, your photograph is of the latter.

Interesting. Is it a flying boat/seaplane? The helmet the pilot is wearing looks like that worn by German Fighter Pilots WW1. The guy at the back thinking "Don't say he has lost the p-tube again.

'Jeez... how long does it take them to wind up a rubber band....' ;)

I have to say I like that a lot: it looks well-made and has a great deal of charm. No idea what it is but can't wait to find out!

Bear contemplates while holding the rear:
”With that cast iron pot helmet, Dook will never get airborne”

I think it was solved at post #1101.

Happy to see you back Fauteuil Volant!
With the 24hr rule lifted I hope to see more from you.
Fauteuil Volant has correctly identified the Scheldemeeuw built before WWII by the aeroplane department of Naval Shipyard De Schelde.

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....22970edd3.jpeg
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....bf58bba74.jpeg
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....af0f336fb.jpeg
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MReyn gets the bonus rolls for the Caption competition.

I don't know about the Netherlands, but with the hoarding of toilet rolls here it is easier and probably cheaper to buy 100 pairs of disposable underpants instead !

..... but not this time, SLB, I'm afraid to say. I've nothing immediately to offer so, I fear, that I must say OH. I'll try to do better in future.

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....67c9ea14bb.jpg

As no-one has stepped into the breach and I've had time, this morning, to find another challenge ..... here goes!

Amazing what you can do with a few toilet rolls...

The challenge looks a real oddball.

Is it by any chance French ?

Yes, it's French.

Well it must be a Druine, but the extra bit have me foxed.

I can't see a prop, so is it a pusher ?

Whilst I can see why you've found similarities with the Turbulent, the limited information that I have gives no indication that this oddity was created out of a Turbulent. The indications are that it was constructed from scratch - oh, and it did fly.

I think that the apparent absence of a propeller is down to the the photograph. As far as I'm aware, it is a tractor. But look closely at the photograph and see what is missing, which you'd expect to find on most fixed wing aircraft.

All I can see that could be missing are flaps.

Is the 24 hour rule lifted? I've been traveling ... :(

That's one hell of a speedbrake.

More than flaps are missing from the wings. They are aileron free zones! That's why this aeroplane has the 'sticky up thing' emerging from the fuselage aft of its cockpit.

I've flown an aircraft with no ailerons but that one takes the biscuit !

The 'sticky up thing' - whose technical name is a lateron - replaced ailerons on this 1959 single seater. Its designer had plans to build a two seater version, but these did not come to fruition.

Might this be the ARL-11 Baby Squale ?

Presumably the Lateron was so named because the designer was going to fit ailerons Later on to this a/c when the silly looking thingy on top of the fuselage turned out to be useless (ahem) :)

You can blame my partner for that comment btw - she thought that one up :)