The What is it? Game

[DFM+BB]

This proposition is not correct but you got the idea regarding the area ( 1930's ).

Okay I'll give you a clue guy's : it is a "composite" aircraft and it was originally made for a petroleum company ( okay...maybe I've said too much ! )

 

[DFM+BB]

when I say "composite" it means that the aircraft is made from parts from other aircraft ( sorry maybe my English was wrong about the word "composite" ) the tail for exemple is from a Lockheed Vega.

 

[Airframes]

I don't know what it is (without checking through my library), but I think it's a racing aircraft which looks like anything but a racing aircraft! Built, or raced, for perhaps Texaco, in the early 1930s.

 

[DFM+BB]

Not a racing aircraft.... ! you can look up in you library, for me it can be use ( but I doubt it is in it )

 

[norab]

Rocheville Arctic Tern ? AKA Emsco Arctic Tern

 

[DFM+BB]

And this is exact Norab !

Your turn !

 

[Airframes]

Good Grief ! What a contraption, and not at all what I was thinking of !
That's got to be more rare than a good looking Hippocroccofrog !

 

[norab]

truly arcane, but with the help of your clue, I managed to get it. Well done

this hopefully will be a little easier

 

[Capt. Vick]

Is it Russian?

 

[DFM+BB]

Don't know why but on my side I would go for a japanese one, Mitsubishi something but this is really a wild guess !

 

[norab]

not Russian or Japanese

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Just a stab in the dark, a GeeBee.

 

[norab]

nope, not a US design

 

[Airframes]

Looks French, or perhaps further south, from Italy .....

 

[norab]

It isn't French or Italian. It's a high wing monoplane

 

[Geedee]

I know....its a racing Lysander !

 

[Airframes]

Ah, of course! That snazzy arrow on the cowling is the giveaway! It's the winner of the 1934 'Gonnads Cup around Wigan Air Race' ......

 

[norab]

Maybe a little bigger clue

cheers

 

[Capt. Vick]

Nothrop tri-plane, later militarized as the Raider? Forgot it's civvy name though...

 

[norab]

no, not a US design, European