PLEASE Id this aircraft

[Maveric]

Hi,
can you id this aircraft?

THX

 

[riggerrob]

Just guessing, but the shape and paint job look like 1968, contemporary with Aero Commander twins.
Insignia on the fin look vaguely Eastern European, but it is difficult to read the registration letters on the right wing.

The assymetric engine nacelle would work as long as both propellers turn counter-clockwise (as seen from the rear).
That wing (in the sketch) looks too small for a six-seater executive transport.
However, the 3-view shows a reasonably sized wing.
Amusing how engineer-professor M.L. Tudha devoted plenty of effort to design a gracefully-curved fuselage, but relied on rectangular flying surfaces.

According to an article in AvMag 847 (1-4-83) Professor M. L. Tudha worked at University of Gronfeldesz and University of Vadurgrad. I could not find the location of either university, but: Gronfeldesz implies Germanic or Scandinavian, while Vadirgrad sounds slavic.
The AvMag article also mentions countries to the east .... implying communist Eastern Europe.

 

[hesham]

Please add the source,

it is certain Aviation magazine ?.

 

[Aubi]

Not Eastern European in any way, flag is fictional, the closest resemblance is actually Jamaica. Because of the Lycoming-looking front engine, I'd sugest US origin.

 

[lark]

It is indeed from he French 'Aviation Magazine' mid seventies past century.
Concept should be an April foolsday joke as far as I remember...

 

[Maveric]

You are right lark, from french Aviation Magazine with complete name

 

[Maveric]

and the complete article, don´t forget I´m not french

 

[Aubi]

As Lark said, Aprils fools article. Professor-engineer-doctor Tudha and his fake Hungarian-sounding university gave it away.

 

[Grey Havoc]

The logo on the tail reminded me a bit of Lockheed Corporation's corporate logo or possibly an old one of Rockwell International.

 

[Deltafan]

"Da-U" is for the joke imaginary animal "Dahu" or "Dahut" in French :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahu
and Tudha is the anagram of dahut

 

[Maveric]

Can you also identify this two real german aircrafts?
H.232 "Pony"
"Wildente 2"

 

[Stargazer]

Can you also identify this two real german aircrafts?
H.232 "Pony"
"Wildente 2"

The aircraft reads H.323, NOT "H.232"...
The original page from which it comes (listing the aircraft from the museum at the former Soviet air base in Merseburg, west of Leipzig in Germany) only says it was amateur-built.
They don't provide any data on the Wildente 2 except for its registration D-MBNN.

Another photo of the same plane while in Merseburg, taken in 2016, can be seen on Flickr at

https://flic.kr/p/J24fTe

View: https://www.flickr.com/photos/77175657@N00/27578936155/in/photostream/


A different photo of the Wildente 2 can be found on the Airhistory.net website, which also gives info on the current location of the aircraft (as of 2023), at the Kujawy Museum of Arms, Science and Technology in Redecz Krukowy (Poland).

 

[publiusr]

As Lark said, Aprils fools article. Professor-engineer-doctor Tudha and his fake Hungarian-sounding university gave it away.

I wonder if anyone told Rutan that before he actually built the thing as Boomerang.

 

[Stargazer]

"Da-U" is for the joke imaginary animal "Dahu" or "Dahut" in French :
and Tudha is the anagram of dahut

Also, the would-be photo of the designer taken at the precise moment the idea dawned on him ought to have been a dead giveaway!!!