… and here another replica – this time in the Portuguese Air Force Museum in Alverca – also in the summer of 2011. Confusing – isn’t it!?
Here a picture of the original Fairey IIID in the Lisbon Maritime Museum (as correctly stated by MARK12). I took the picture in the summer of 2001:
Thank you Thomas, very nice picture of this one-of-a-kind motor glider:).
Thank you very much, but I have a small addition/correction: The Kea is a homebuilt sportsplane, not a motorglider. This can be seen from the german registration
D-Exxx = sports or touring aircraft (below 2 metric tonnes weight)
D-Kxxx = Motorglider
Both categories don’t have a distinction for factory-produced/homebuilt aircraft.
Of course some other letters following the “Nationality D-” have other fixed meanings/denote other classes of aircraft.
Regards,
Thomas
Hi Wout!
You’re right – it is indeed the Hinz BL-1 Kea.
I took the picture around ten years ago at a Fly-in of the Oskar-Ursinus Vereinigung at Koblenz, Germany.
Your turn…
Thomas
Fine – the new challenge:
Good morning!
It certainly looks like the Akaflieg Hannover Vampyr (today in the Deutsches Museum, Munich).
Thomas
Hi Thomas!
Maybe the Wilden VoWi-8 of Helmut Wilden? But I understand that already flew in 1974(?)
Good evening!
CORRECT on both – the Wilden VoWi-8 flew for the first time on March 2nd, 1974 – why it was displayed on an AERO exhibition about fifteen years later – I don’t know.
I enclose an “undoctored” photo – showing it with registration D-EOPB (also different from the original one – which was D-EOWI).
Your turn!
… and a nice Sunday,
Thomas
P.S. I would also be very much interested in the – apparently – muscle-driven plane in the background. If anyone wants to try identifying it I could upload a better (complete) picture….
The plane depicted is a one-off from Germany.
Thomas
Good Morning!
Does it help when I reveal that I took the photo during an AERO exhibition at Friedrichshafen/Lake Constance around 1990??
Thomas
The next challenge:
Hello Mark!
Short question: Am I correct in saying that the (nice) photos were taken in 2005?
Regards,
Thomas
Good Morning!
This may be a Westland Limousine I.
Thomas
Good morning!
As it seems to be a flying wing construction, perhaps this website will help you:
Regards,
Thomas
Good morning!
As it seems to be a flying wing construction, perhaps this website will help you:
Regards,
Thomas
Good Morning Laurence!
Sh.t:mad: Normally I convert the title into something neutral, such as “Rätsel 11-08-04”, but this time I simply forgot it.
But you are right: Its the LAK-5 Nemunas motorglider constructed by the Lithuanian “LAK” organisation (predecessor of today’s Sportine Aviacija, well known for its LAK-17 and -19 gliders) during “Soviet” times.
The photos were taken in the Lithuanian Aviation Museum at Kaunas about 2 months ago.
Your turn,
Thomas