Beware, the Scourge of the Desert is back.......
Beware, the Scourge of the Desert is back.......
Welcome back Lefty of Arabia. :ernae:
Will post a new one here in a bit. Let me see what I can scare up from the dusty steamer trunk.
Next up, a biplane that means business...
Should be an english fela... never saw that before, that kind of plane some record plane ?
V12 engine...
The V12 is correct. Not a record breaker (or setter) though.
My guess is American, although possibly French.
Yes, an Uncle Sam one-off that crashed after a few test flights...
curtiss something ? i'm far from my materials...
Well so was I, but I'm not now - it's the Curtiss CB Battleplane.
Back in the comfort zone now, so we'll leave the dusty desert behind and go for, yes, a floater !!
The flashy paint, twin hull and torpedo away all say Italian to me...
Well I know a certain tome in your possession starts at 1930, but even if it were earlier, you wouldn't find this bird in it, because she ain't Italian !
V engines and wings shapes reminds me some french planes but the tails and double ponton just bring perplexity...
Somewhere in germany, baltic or nothern sea perhaps...
Well...
You were on the right track for a bit there, fasm.
Here she is again.
Ah, I see it's definetly french but I don't remind this double ponton.
From the tail some FBA prototypearound 1918...
I found a Levy besson triplan with Hispano engines but couldn't find any pictures. I guess I won't find anything more today...
The only Levy Besson triplane floater I have found so far is this one. Like fasm said, the tail on Lefty's ship has a FBA look to it.
There were several Levy-Besson triplane floaters - the one I think you are referring to is the 'High Seas' Flying Boat pictured here.
The only thing my mystery has in common with the Levy-Besson is the hyphen :mixedsmi:
Halbronn-Tord ! HT2 it's seems on the first picture (with lorraine engine).
Produced by Labourdette a Famous Coachbuilder... jeeez didn't knew this one
Well done indeed sir ! to you. I have it as the Labourdette-Halbronn HT-1.
Where did you see HT2 on the pic, by the way ? A rarity indeed - now give us another, please.
The HT1 had 2 200cv Hispano the HT2 had 2 350cv Lorraine. I thought it was the lorraine on the first picture but nothing sure.
It was his first plane he only had 25 years old... and died 2 years after trianing aerobatics. A brillant man.
Well, thanks for the help, I guess I wouldn't have find it otherwise.
Some more weird hydro... a little older
A Jeanson-Colliex Bi-floatplane from 1913.
Yes it is
without hesitation
Thank you. Now for something more modern - not just a light aircraft, but one evaluated by one air force and given a fixed armament - sadly I cannot track down a pic of this version.
Thurston-Patchen TSC-2 designed by well-known David Thurston.
Used wings, tail and rear fuselage of the TSC-1 Teal amphibian. One built 1972 and possibly tested by South African AF. Reportedly aircraft in SAAF Historical Flight Museum in South Africa. Registration in USA was N-1EX
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