Carlo, this one is a bit older having been tested and flown in 1917. You have the right country of origin though. (My ham-fisted photoshop job on the fin fooled no one!)
Carlo, this one is a bit older having been tested and flown in 1917. You have the right country of origin though. (My ham-fisted photoshop job on the fin fooled no one!)
I decided right from the start that this was an Italian lake, (looks like Como) but could not find a Macchi or a Savoia to fit ! More digging.......
Don't think the tail is right , Chris..... This is of some personal interest as the only time in my life I've ever taken off from, and landed on, water, was on Lake Como ! Probably from that very jetty at the Aero Club....
Not a SIAI Chris.
Of note: It had an Isotta-Fraschini V.4 engine.
Last gasp...this was from a well-known designer who had his hands in many projects both civil and military. He passed away in 1961.
I think this is the Pegna VI from Giovanni Pegna.
Thanks, Kevin! It was indeed the year that helped to solve this mystery.
Here is another biplane.
Looks to have Avro 504 ancestry.
Not from the Avro stable, Mike.
From a well known manufacturer that had quite a reputation for his WW1 aircraft.
In which case, Robert, is it the Sopwith Grasshopper ?
It is the Grasshopper, Mike!
Kind of strange that Sopwith went out of business after difficulties selling motorcycles...
Over to you, Mike
Thanks, Robert. Before I head off for my traditional Friday 'refreshment', we'll have another floater ! (Can't have too many....) (refreshments, I mean....)
I hoped you would get his one, Carlo ! Cin cin, and over to you -
https://imgur.com/a/0tFWh14
I was able to find some spare time therefore I'm submitting this fellow from Chile…
Cheers
Carlo
It's the Chilean D.H.53 Humming Bird that appears at http://ivansiminic.blogspot.com/2007...n-militar.html. Although which of the D.H.53s it was, I know not.
Thank you, Carlo. By a process of elimation, I wonder whether this Hummingbird was G-EBRA? I also wonder if it aspired to a Chilean civil registration?
As we are approaching Christmas, the season of festive fun, might I offer a somewhat different approach to the next mystery aircraft? Yes, we've had her before - but not like this, which is something in the nature of an aeronautical 'dance of the seven veils'! I suspect that I won't get as far as removing all of the veils but, to start, here she is fully veiled - but exactly as supplied by the manufacturer!
That's the Sablatnig P III
(I remember the photos from Flugsport 1920)
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