Correct on all counts, Uli. I suspect that your source and mine are one and the same! Over to Germany.
Correct on all counts, Uli. I suspect that your source and mine are one and the same! Over to Germany.
for sure
On with this:
_
gX
Uli, I think that's the Pander Multi-pro from around 1932 ? Pobjoy engine unmistakeable...
right on the Pander, Mike
_
gX
Thanks Uli - here's my first floater of 2020!
Yokosho Ro-go Ko-gata Recon. Seaplane
Chris
Absolutely correct, Chris. Wish I knew what that name meant - over to you.
Don't know much about this one doesn't show up in forum.
Chris
Found a better picture of the aircraft.
Chris
Mike I found what the Yokosho means.
Yokoshô-shiki Ro-gô Ko-gata (Yokoshô-Type Reconnaissance Model A)
Chris
1st civilian aircraft made in this country.
Chris
From the deepest reaches of Eastern Europe methinks...
I think this is the Vecihi XIV from Turkey.
Robert you think right over to Germany
Chris
Thanks, Chris.
On with this "clone".
Brochet MB.71.
That was fast, Mike
It is the Brochet MB.71
Surprised it hasn't surfaced before - it's the Mann & Grimmer M.1
Indeed it is, Mike. I was also surprised when a search of this thread produced a negative response. I had thought that such an oddity would have been too appealling not to have made a prior appearance here!
Thank you Mike. Well if this one has been here before, I can't find it either !
While looking up info on the Mann & Grimmer M.1 found out that in 1914 the Edward brothers had patented a synchronizing gear to enable guns to be fired through the revolving airscrew of a tractor airplane, their Patent was No.23790 A.D. 1914. For some reason best known to the War Office, whence a working model of the gear was sent, no more was heard of the device.
Interesting you just hear about the Germans doing it.
Chris
I've been reading up about interrupter gears in the splendid 2-volume 'British Aircraft Armament' by R Wallace Clarke. Apparently the first of the Allies to come up with a system were Morane-Saulnier. Personally, I liked the idea of the triangular metal deflectors bolted to the inside of the prop. Must have been fun !
Anyway, my mystery is not British, although it is European. Here's a pic of the unarmed version -
Looks Russian and there seem to be some Polikarpov genes inside but can't find anything similar.
Since I'm on a mini vacation while home get minor remodel. I'm in Sun Valley looking out for bad winter storm coming in. Anyway it's the
Caproni Ca.113/ CBSA KB-2 Chuchuliga
Chris
Bookmarks