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Title: Whats this??..anybody know?
Post by: JimC on December 11, 2003, 06:00:59 PM

??????? (http://home.houston.rr.com/jimcisme/page4.htm)
Jim

Title: Whats this??..anybody know?
Post by: Octavius on December 11, 2003, 07:09:03 PM

Kinda looks like an early Morane Saulnier MS-406 (fixed landing gear).

(http://batfredland.free.fr/AA832002FerteMs406.jpg)

Title: Whats this??..anybody know?
Post by: Guppy35 on December 11, 2003, 11:00:41 PM

Looks like a British Percival Proctor, or Vega Gull.  Not quite exact but has a similar look

http://users.chariot.net.au/~theburfs/vegagullpage1.html

Dan/Slack

Title: Whats this??..anybody know?
Post by: Fridaddy on December 11, 2003, 11:57:04 PM

No, the gull had 'paints' around the wheels, this dont.



 
http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/ms-406.html

Title: Whats this??..anybody know?
Post by: JimC on December 12, 2003, 12:22:34 AM

Thats my dad, if you look close under his arm, it says EXPERIMENTAL, I think the pic was taken in Lancaster Califorina in the 1930's I don't remember what he said the fellow called it, but I do remember he said it was ahead of its time. He and the guy that designed it , built it. It may very well have been one of a kind. But I thought it was worth asking. It does look much like the Percival Vega Gull,but there is no door on the left side like the gull apears to have.