Bumped up for a bit more attention. Please note:

– the cantilever low wing airframe

– the uncowled inline engine

– obviously it wears a race number (E6) suggesting it took part in some kind of competition.

Thanks again for answers!

Regards, RT

OK Antoni, I admit you might be right. But you see there are major differences between your pics 1 and 2 of the Ptapta. All these details are confusing me. At least, I mean to see an angular vertical tailfin in my picture. Going to change my picture label. Thank you!

Regards, RT

Thank you Martin. F 355, 390 and 400 are pictured in aviafrance.com. They show different configurations. What remains is the F 360. About this there is an entry in airwar.ru, but it is shown with four-bladed prop and normal-looking, spatted undercarriage. And the registration is *false*:angel:

I am going to store the picture as F 360.

Regards, RT

Thank you for all your witty (and more) comments. Further I received the following from warbirdsforum.com:

“From the look of him I’d guess “yes please, milk and two sugars””

“I’ll be there as soon as I teach this ****** how to taxi this thing.”

“I don’t think I wanna’ get IN this thing … without beer.”

“I say, I think I’ve assembled our new ride-on mower incorrectly.”

“Where’s the clutch”……..

Hope you enjoyed once more, and regards, RT

Thank you for your answers. I am going to store the thing as “Hughes Gyrocopter” and hope good old Howard will not mind (watching from his cloud).

Regards, RT

Bumped up for a bit more attention. Difficult ?!?:confused:

Regards, RT

Thank you for your answers, but sorry to say, we didn’t get any further. According to aerofiles.com, ‘N92W’ is a “Miller glider”, ‘N92E’ is a Command-Aire 3C3 (which is a biplane), other combinations also show no matching result. Another one to be put into my “Unidentified” folder. Some happen to leave it after years…

Wine or cotton, I think the location is somewhere in California.

…, back flying within a couple of months.

You mean it’s now always flying on the back? For months? Sorry, just couldn’t resist.;)

Regards, RT

http://www.eaa.org/chapters/resources/articles/120904_briefing.asp

Joan Trefethen Alford was quite a lady, the first woman to fly at the Reno Air Races. Her plane (not in the races) was N75T.

I am sure nobody intended to seriously question Joan Trefethen’s reputation. It’s only the hair-raising and unexpected coincidence of certain ingredients which causes this kind of delight. After all, we are only human. I ask for understanding.:angel:

Regards, RT