Hiya, Sergej!
Good selection… I’m sure one of our fellow aircraft experts will deduce what it is!
Russ
Proud son of Rose and Wes
My Lord… is perhaps this photo that utterly rare snapshot of the Sovet high-altitude research airplane BOK-7 (БОК-7), a very specific modification of the ANT-36, reconstructed by Vladimir Chizhevski in 1937? :shock:
Congratulation Librarian!
It’s the BOK-7.
The VVS planed a non-stop round the world flight
with this aircraft. The head of this programme was
Aleksander Filin,but after Filin felt to Stalins repression
and was executed, the programme was cancelled.
Here is a direct link:
http://www.suchoj.com/andere/index.htm?http://www.suchoj.com/andere/BOK-7/home.shtml
High-altitude aircrafts were the ancestors of modern spaceflight,
thats one of the reasons, why I am interessted in them.
Your well-earend turn!
Thank you very much, my dear Mr. Sergej. Well, honorable ladies and gentlemen – here is my latest offering. Another mysterious contraption is directly in front of us. Therefore tell us, please, what the official designation of this machine really is. 
That rudder made me mad!
Quite no other aircraft of this
time used this kind of rudder,
except the Brewster XSBA-1.
As always – you are absolutely correct, my dear Mr. Sergej. However, I think that you will be a little bit surprised due to that rudder-shape in not-so-distant future…
I mean especialy this angle:
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/3945/00022qy8.jpg
I can’t remember, seen it in this era.
Here is an other aircraft, not very
spectacular but maybe a bit tricky.
It seems to me that American airplanes are very popular lately, my dear Mr. Sergej: Curtiss XP-31 Swift is your mystery plane, am I right?
Yes you are correct!
This is the later variant with the Curtiss V-1570 Conqueror engine.
Excellent, my dear Mr. Sergej. So, here we go – another snapshot of a mystery-machine:
Could you identify this bird?
I’m quite sure that this aircraft is the MÁVAG Héja II,
a Hungarian development of the Reggiane Re.2000.
It is indeed a Reggiane / Heja.
As always, you are absolutely right in your postulation, my dear Mr. Sergej. Yes, our birdy really is that almost forgotten Hungarian modification of the Reggiane Re 2000 Falco, an airplane heavily influenced by the American Seversky P-35, but also notably improved by the Italian engineers.
Yet again, another well-earned turn is now completely yours. Please, proceed!
Thank you, Librarian.
I offer you an other very special aircraft.
Is it a mail aircraft of some kind? At first I thought it was some variant of the Heinkel 70.
It’s not an mail aircraft and the wingspan was two times bigger then the Heinkels.
Fascinating!
that’s awesome! i bet it’s french!
Its Japanese actualy, I believe its called the Koken Long-range Reserch-plane (航研・長距離飛行世界記録機) made by the Tokyo Imperial aeronautics Institute. Flew From Aomori Japan all the way to North America.
