Singing cockles and ..... !
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Singing cockles and ..... !
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...... " alive alive o " right in every respect - put this in your wheelbarrow ....
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from la belle France I think ?
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Indeed it is - and you've now identified one of only three things I know about this aeroplane!
Vinet Type D with Anzani?
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I think that you have it, Uli, albeit that we have a difference of pronunciation! My source has it as the Vinay Monoplan, but being French that may be an incorrect phonetic transcription of Vinet. As to it being the Type D with Anzani power, in this respect your knowledge is more extensive than mine (you'll have noted what, in my previous post, I said as to this). All considered, this one is now done and dusted and the next challenge rests with Germany.
p.s. do you, Uli, have a year for the Vinet/Vinay?
Type D:
The Vinet Type D was completed before the end of June 1911; it was the first of a series of similar machines designed by P James, all with a low-set covered fuselage below a parasol wing with the engine mounted above the leading edge. It was tested in August 1911 at Chateaufort but was found unsatisfactory.
(French Aeroplanes Before the Great War)
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new mystery (couldn't find it in the thread)
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Hi giruXX
The sole (of 3 built) I.A.53 Mamboretá of DINFIA (Dirección Nacional de Fabricación y Investigación Aeronáutica) Argentina that took the air.
A small flying wing with twin (retractable) engines.
Methinks this is the Lauk Cygnus from Estonia.
Hi fabulousfour
Absolutely nothing wrong with your way of thinking!
The Indraéro 'Aéro' 101, perhaps ?
It is the Aero 101, Mike!
Over to Scotland
Thank you, Robert. Something quite different -
Not easy from that angle .... but could it be a SNCASO Espadon?
Yes Mike - the tiny intakes are the clue - over to you. Good win for Les Bleus tonight !
Thank you, Mike.
I hope that the Irish do well this afternoon and that, a fortnight hence, the Scots don't spoil what should otherwise be 'le grand showdown' in Paris on the evening of 14 March!
What makes the Espadon memorable for me is that its wings seem to have been an afterthought, added when its designer remembered that there wasn't otherwise anything into which the main wheels could retract!
Here's an attractive two seat parasol wing monoplane that doesn't appear to have been used here before. However I doubt that it will last long.
No idea, but the parasol looks French or maybe Italian
Are those planes in the background Ju 88?
Interestingly, Robert, I had intended to ask broadly the same question - namely what are the aircraft in the background of the photograph - although I hadn't arrived at the possiblity of them being Ju 88s. But that must be a likely as a number of the type were constructed in the same country and more were recuperated in the same region as that in which the aeroplane in the foreground of the photograph first flew and the type went on to serve in that country's air force and navy after the war in Europe ended. But returning to the aeroplane in the foreground, it was powered by a Potez 3B radial - which should identify its country of origin (if that wasn't already obvious) - and first flew just three months after the war in Europe ended.
I reckon they are 88's in French markings, Robert. But that hasn't helped a lot !
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