Honved Experimental Aircraft

[GregP]

Last help I'll ask for today.

I found a picture of a Hungarian "Honved Experimental Aircraft." But ... not much shows up in my browser about it. The picture looks like a low-wing, twin-engine, conventioanl gear, single-tail aircraft. It appears to have modest engines in it since the props appear to be fixed-pitch, 2-bladed units. The fron of the aircraft is glazed, as is what would normally be the cockpit area.

Looks like and observation or a trainer aircraft.

All I found was the photo ... no data about it at all.

Anyone know anything about it?

Thanks!

[GregP]

OK, let me try to put in a pic.

http://home.mit.bme.hu/~tade/ac-pict/Hung-AF/pre-1945/Developments/honved.jpg

Anyone know about this?

[robert]

The aircraft is the one and only RMI-3 (Z/G) Honved. The aircraft was a proposed dive-bomber training aircraft:

"In 1940, it became clear that to fulfill all the requirements of the RHAF[Royal Hungarian Air Force], the supply from abroad would be insufficient and a government-run design office, the Aerotechnical Institute, was established...

...The RHAF had a constant shortage of secondary and advanced trainers. Using the WM 21 for these purposes was very expensive considering the aircraft's fuel consumption, especially in a country struggling with a fuel shortage.

There were three objectives the design bureau planned to achieve: first, to design trainers with small engines for blind flying and dive-bomber training...To meet the first objective, the Z/G trainer was developed. The prototype was completed in early 1943, and it was awaiting military trials that would determine if serial production would be undertaken when it was burned in a hangar during an American bombing attack on 13 April 1944."

from Hungarian Air Force by George Punka.