Why only half?

Half-frame camera......?

Clearly not auto focus

Looks like there's a notched section to the leading edge around the cockpit.

Danish?
Skandinavisk Aero Industri product?
S.A.I. KZ III?

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....4865fde7d8.jpg

It looks to me like the cabin windows are wrong for any SAI aircraft I can find. As also the Fletcher F-24, which has a similar treatment of the leading edge, though not so extreme as in the mystery aircraft.

"Why only half?" - because the back-end says "Google this Registration" in large letters................ :E

It isn't Danish - I'd never heard of it but it seems to have been quite a successful design
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....a4827eefa2.jpg

Well I assumed we were all blanking out details like that before posting (see my last submission in Post #2327 for example). Or conversely it doesn't seem very helpful to crop photos because you won't blank out incriminating detail.

A long time ago on UK television there was an enchanting programme called 'Pets Win Prizes'. One of the competitions was to see if a human could identify their animal from a group of like creatures by seeing just its lower leg, or similarly detailed part. This thread has to work on that principle because the hotshots here are very hot indeed. Twice I have posted pictures of small portions of aircraft I regarded as extremely obscure, only to have them identified within half an hour.

I think it might be better to try and be inclusive by appealing to a wider audience instead of aiming at the 'hotshots'. In any case, it's obvious now that cropping of photos is being done to remove identifying detail, rather than making it more challenging. It doesn't take much effort to blank the detail out after all, QED.

does it really matter as long as its a good challenge? Either crop it or paint it, or do both (as I did, still got identified in a few hours).

Sometimes the "detail" is so distinctive it gives the game away instantly - cropping is just the same as plastering a big white blob over it - we've been doing both for years

A well preserved one

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....74b67f5c23.jpg

Is that a Gipsy Major?

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....a4827eefa2.jpg

Ahhh....much older than I thought.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RWD_13


https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....cf06c2af4b.jpg

Interesting, my thought was of the PZL Gawron as I had a vague feeling it was Polish - close but definitely no cigar! I certainly have heard of the type somewhere...

Noyade has it with the Polish RWD13 - a very successful aircraft - they sold over 100 and it was also built under licence I believe in other countries, There are still a few around and even a replica in Poland


https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....fd90e2b0ba.jpg
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....ee5cd3df17.jpg
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....8602dc5ae7.jpg

Cheers.


https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....df76fe3a76.jpg

Looks like a Navy Curtiss NC-4 or similar

Is that a Wackett Widgeon? (whatta name!)

Whatta name indeed! All yours Beamr. :ok:

How about this then?

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....3557a4031b.jpg

Does it have a twin?

Quiet day. Well I think it's a Thai Type 2 bomber, designed by Lieutenant Colonel Luang Vejyanrangsarit in 1939, and named "Bripat" or “Paribatra” (depending on translation) in honour of Prince Bripat Sukumphan (Prince Paribatra). Power plant was a Jupiter radial. There's one preserved in the Royal Thai AF Museum.

There's one preserved in the Royal Thai AF Museum.
A subscale replica, IIRC from many years ago............

Pypard got it right.

Interesting part is that apparently, with only 12 made incl prototype, they used four different engines during production (P&W Wasp, BMW VI, Bristol Jupiter, Curtiss D-12). That must be a record of some kind.

Pypard, your call! :ok:

Well there' s a bit of info I wasn't aware of on a really obscure type. I suspect your post alone has increased the general knowledge of the type :)

Try this one. It'll probably go quick, but I like it anyway:

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....2302f8d28b.jpg

Looks to be the Canadian Boeing Totem flying boat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing-Canada_A-213_Totem


https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....18f99835e2.jpg

That'll do: nice looking 'boat. You have control.

Pypard, I was recently familiarized with the thread rules, which state that there must be at least 24 hours in between new quiz and the winner announcement. I take it that you weren't aware of it as wasn't I.

Makes sense: Noyade you have control sometime tomorrow then :) In the meantime please feel free to take a guess.

Hi Pypard, just to explain: the 24 hour rule was imposed by the moderators of the board because the thread was becoming very quick-fire. I forgot about it myself and declared a winner within 30 minutes of posting what I though was a really obscure aeroplane. So the need to get something to last at least 24 hours is one of the things that led to only bits of aeroplanes being posted.
That Boeing is nice, isn't it: the bow looks very boat-like.

Have to say it had a Saunders Roes feeling to me....

No probs with the rule. Yes the Totem is a handsome machine: it goes to show what can be done with what are essentially flat surfaces.

Great tradition of the best American engineering: simple, strong, right. Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?

Les neiges d'antan ont disparu au printemps Canadien.

Lovely looking boat. I had never heard of it.

Copland, Appalachian Spring: 25' 35"
Anon., Le printemps Canadien: 1' 27"

Cheers Pypard.

Saw this on the net....
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....0c5c8441d5.jpg

That reminds me terribly of Maule, but the nacelle is wrong.

If that's a radial up front then it looks quite big.

I thought there was a Scottish influence, but the stabilizer is too small.