Curtiss F8B/O2C
Used in King Kong movie?

It is a Curtiss, but never had an opportunity to release ammunition on a morphed gorilla.
Only one built and described as "yet another of a seemingly incessant one-off variations on the Curtiss Hawk theme."
Flown in 1930.

Curtiss YP-20 then?

Dunno how many hours have elapsed SLB - but it's all yours sir! :D


https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....6517e0ed19.png

Stating it was a Hawk variant was a unnecessary give away.
But thanks anyway.
Now this:

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....98fb20eac.jpeg

An American Flea?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univer...ican_Flea_Ship

Before I saw Noyade's post, I thought it looked like something designed by someone who thought the Pou was too mainstream. But in a steep climb, it will punch above its weight in the blotting-out-the-sun department.

Indeed the American Flea.
Noyade you can flip up the shades, the stage is yours!
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....45b01c855.jpeg

Thanks mate!
But I think it's time for someone else to have a go.
Open House.

Cheers!

Slightly off piste but, just for fun, try this:-

Let's try this one

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....5d30e93af1.jpg

Fairchild 91

The Fairchild 91 Baby Clipper it is,
Over to you kenparry.

teusje,

Thank you. A fairly obscure type, it seems, with only 4 built.

Sorry, nothing on hand, so Open House

here's one I'd forgotten about....................

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....7b17da1f64.jpg

The "Helouan" HA-300 according to William Green back in 1964.
However, Wiki calls it "Helwan."....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helwan_HA-300

Different transcriptions of the Egyptian place name. I guess the -ou- version is a French transcription, which would figure with its being apparently the one used earlier in the Anglophone world, as in this caption of WW1 Australian troops in Egypt https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P01824.001

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....b99f45ae34.jpg
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....cd7182544e.jpg

Ok - Noyade has it

It was really the last proper Messerschmidt I guess - but they stopped development as the Israelis kept killing the German engineers........

Thanks A56.

More artwork...



https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....9b1ef86368.jpg

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?