Greek Aircraft

Does anyone have a photo of the AEKKEA-RAAB R-29? It was an indiginously made Greek fighter made in 1936. I would assume that someone, somewhere, has to have it, and I was hoping that one of you would either have seen a photo, a sketch, or have access to some kind of idea of what it may have looked like. Please, tell me if you know of any sources or have photographs to provide.
 
Wikipedia: "There seems to be no surviving image of the plane (after invaluable AEKKEA files in Greece were destroyed during an archive move), with only a description of the plane layout provided in Jane's contemporary publication."
 
Wikipedia: "There seems to be no surviving image of the plane (after invaluable AEKKEA files in Greece were destroyed during an archive move), with only a description of the plane layout provided in Jane's contemporary publication."


Dammit, that just ruins everything. There has to be at LEAST a sketch somewhere, or design plans. Honestly, somewhere on the internet, it just HAS to exist
 
Dammit, that just ruins everything. There has to be at LEAST a sketch somewhere, or design plans. Honestly, somewhere on the internet, it just HAS to exist

I don't think so, the Internet while having lots of info can sometimes have glaring spots of nothing.

For your plan have you tried searching not only Google, but aircraft and model building forums as well? Some problems only the deep web can solve.

-Gen_Patton
 
I don't think so, the Internet while having lots of info can sometimes have glaring spots of nothing.

For your plan have you tried searching not only Google, but aircraft and model building forums as well? Some problems only the deep web can solve.

-Gen_Patton

Could you recommend such forums for me?
 
There has to be at LEAST a sketch somewhere, or design plans.

Well, if even Jane's didn't have it back then, I think it's probably sufficiently obscure that nobody but the manufacturer ever took a photograph of it... and if they've lost all their records, you're probably out of luck.

I did find an aviation forum discussing it which says that all 30 examples which were built were shipped, without engines, to the Soviet Union, at which point they disappeared.
 
The speed with which it was built would tend to indicate that it was a tube-and-rag structure with round engine, based on the previous Schwalbe design, but beyond that, it's totally conjectural.
 
Well, if even Jane's didn't have it back then, I think it's probably sufficiently obscure that nobody but the manufacturer ever took a photograph of it... and if they've lost all their records, you're probably out of luck.

I did find an aviation forum discussing it which says that all 30 examples which were built were shipped, without engines, to the Soviet Union, at which point they disappeared.

Maybe the Ruskies know something of it.... Anyone speak Russian?
 
Is this the aircraft in question that you are after?

http://www.trueknowledge.com/images/thumbs/180/250/5ef2d4da99c897c5495945946f20a51c.jpg

5ef2d4da99c897c5495945946f20a51c.jpg
 
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