Thanks for the info Ferry. Interesting.
How about a non-descript transport?
Thanks for the info Ferry. Interesting.
How about a non-descript transport?
Looks like a type 5000 monoplane mid 1920s
Not a bad guess Paul. It isn't the Travel Air but was first flown just a year later than the 5000.
Powered by a license built Pratt and Whitney Hornet radial. The sole example crashed killing the pilot and co-pilot but not before completing several long-distance flights.
This wierd aircraft?
A fascinating machine indeed - this is the Helmy Aerogypt I, designed by an Egyptian medical student ! I have always liked this one, if only because it is refreshingly different. You have to admire someone who can disappear into the garden shed and emerge with something like this !
Well done! A wee dram for the man! Its a pity that the airframe ended up housing chickens!
Over to you sir!
Keith
Feel like I should know this one. Fuselage has a German look but not sure about the rest.
European, but not German.. Easy....
Your guys are far too good for me, but I decided to join in. For a moment I thought it a a Tellier, but after some thinking I'm convinced it isn't a French flying boat as most of them had their engines on top of the wing. I'm sure the struts, position of the engine and tail are the clues.
I think its Italian, so must likely a Macchi and to be more specific a Macchi M.18?
Cheers,
Huub
Oh, Huub, you're going to kick yourself.......a bit closer to home !
It is not French. I have given a pretty strong hint as to its nationality!
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Doh!:isadizzy:
Here is a non-Dutch entry...
We have these in the garden but I have a good spray for them.........
Cheap whisky. Doesn't kill 'em immediately but ruins their little livers......
Anyway, back to Moses' flying pancake - the nearest I can find is the Eshelman Flying Flounder, but the pics in you-know-where are a bit distorted and grainy.
I don't know Eshelman's Flying Flounder as suggested by esteemed Lefty....
Could it be instead the Eichmann "Bat I" (1937 - USA ) [NX17638]? I have a pic of this item in a very dilapidated state (the item I mean not the pic).
Cheers
Baragouin
I retreat with shame....I just found out that it is Eshelman's "Flying Flounder" and all honours being vented upon Lefty, the winner!
Breakfast is on me- pancakes for everybody. Here is a mug of orange juice for Mike.
Thanks for the OJ, Kevin. (You trying to tell me something ??) Hope you caught the other videos on the same site - Horton Wingless, Custer, etc - the shot of the Flounder landing is a bit scary !
Anyway, here's something a bit different - no prizes for guessing the aircraft, but what is that slung under it, and why ???
Comet intake design testing - possibly Avon type engine as opposed to Ghost? Or even for the M52?
Keith
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