still digging into "AVD" and possible meanings ( I have a small clue but..)
However, I found this nice Flickr photostream that should be interesting...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jylascu...th/6834925489/
still digging into "AVD" and possible meanings ( I have a small clue but..)
However, I found this nice Flickr photostream that should be interesting...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jylascu...th/6834925489/
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Dear srgalahad :salute:
Thank you for the AVD-12 link. Beautiful
Am interested in your clue about AVD.
From the Spanish text I understand (I think) that prototype one was known to the Spanish AF as XL-10-1 and number two as XL-10B. Never know that.
Hello
this is my enigma which shouldn't prove difficult for such an experienced team.....
Baragouin
This looks like a new perspective of the Nuvoli N.5rr?
Yes Moses quite right!Originally Posted by Moses03
your turn please.....
Baragouin
Despite the stylized photo, this one did fly but just for one test flight before crashing. I rather like the design for the time.
In researching this plane, I found out it flew more than the one test flight. Apparently it crashed after several flights. The designer previously held a altitude record in the years prior to this effort.
Another view-
Well, what do you know. I found a newsreel on this one! Here are some screen grabs. They were really looking for some STOL capability...
It's kind of an early Storch,...er, Pelican?)
I would tend to think the wing would almost completely blank out any appreciable airflow over the tail. Pitch and yaw control must have been next to worthless at high angles of attack
The designer was quoted as saying it crashed due to a "design flaw". Maybe that was it.
Edit: That is a seven cylinder Comet radial perched on the wing.
Okay, this is the Schroeder-Wentworth entry into the 1929 Guggenheim Safely Plane contest. Obviously not the winner!
Moving along, how about a lonely floater?
The inverted tail on a seaplane screams Hansa-Brandenburg to me, but the W.12 and W.19 had a differently shaped rudder and a six-in-line engine.
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Does look like a H-B but is not German...
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Could it be from the land of the rising sun? maybe an early Aichi.....:ques:
Baragouin
Not anything Asian either. The company built many floaters and the follow up to this one had a cruciform tail.
Sorry, chaps, your #1 floater fan has been preoccupied - family visiting this weekend, local agricultural show, HOT weather (!) and then glued to the box at night watching all those lovely gold medals flowing in !!
It's the Hansa looks that are putting you all off - this is an All-American girl- the Aeromarine AS-1
(Took me a little time, this one - not easy. Exhausted the Maritime Francaise and Messrs Fairey, Short and Saro before a look at those N-struts, and the penny dropped. Even then, the pic on Aerofiles looks different, but I'm pretty sure this is it)
Was getting a bit worried when our floater expert had not come calling. It is indeed the AS-1.
Now that you've got me in the mood........
Hmmm, gone quiet again. This manufacturer has been represented in this forum a couple of times - producing many interesting prototypes right up to WWII, but only one type achieved production status.
There, I've given it away !
Totally foxed I'm afraid, although the markings appear to be French.
Keith
You're in the right part of the world, Keith, but as I don't think there are many photos of this around, I shall have to reveal it as the Romano R-3.
Here's a much easier wee chap, a prototype from a large factory......
Hi Mike :salute:
The Zlin PLK-5 Junaka (I have it also seen reported as the Z-33, but have no idea if that is official).
I have it as PLK-5, Walter. Nemecek has a drawing of the Z-33 'Dervis' project, which looks very similar but may have a different engine -we need a Czech expert here !
Over to you, anyway - a nice foaming Budwar* to cool the fevered brow -
(* the original Czech Budweiser - not the watery American swill !)
Although marked Experimental, this is not a homebuilt, but it is now flown under the same rules.
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