Fernic Crusair

What is this unusaul beasty??

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=21212

Mark

Googling Tandem Wing New York gives it as a Fernic monoplane. Aerofiles give a Fernic FT-2 (NX120M) with 2 Wright engines. Its designer , Romanian George Fernic was killed at the National Air Races a year later in one of his tandem wing machines (possibly a smaller single seater)