Then let's try the WACO S3HD (the one-and-only NC14048)
Then let's try the WACO S3HD (the one-and-only NC14048)
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
The Waco it is.
A Happy New Year to you all, we have already 2021 on this side of the pond
Thank you for the wishes and the beverage! For what may be the last challenge of a challenging year...
Is it a bird, is it a plane (it DID fly)?
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
A rather grainy, primitive-appearing photo, but not as old as you may think. Power was a 60HP Salmson.
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
Dating to the late 1800's, the company (or descendants) exists to this day. Related products were made famous by a very well-known marine explorer.
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
The gondola is interesting. It looks like a partially formed aircraft.
The "Moto-Ballon" Zodiac MBZ-3. First flown 1937. Operated during WW2 by the French til 1940, and then by the Germans til 1941?
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The only thing now missing is Jacques Cousteau!
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DINFIA IA 38
take a gulp
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Thanks ! Here's a slender number ....
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Caudron C.641 Typhon.
That she is over to you ....
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Mummy, look what Daddy's dug up in the garden !
Apparently it was the other way around. Daddy dug the hole in which to hide it (from Mummy?) during air raids - despite the fact that there hadn't been a war for nearly twelve years and there wouldn't be another for more than nine years. But maybe they thought that by writing 'this space to let' on its side, those naughty foreigners, flying overhead, would think that it was an advertising hoarding rather than a dirigible!
p.s. I suppose it would be fairer to say that the hole was dug when there was a risk of air raids, which there was not when this dirigible laid low in it!
I think this is the airship AD.1 G-FAAX which was built privately for advertising purposes.
That is exactly what it is, Robert, G-FAAX lurking in the 'hole' of the former airship station which was RNAS Capel. Over to you, sir!
Thanks Mike, didn't know of the existence of the AD.1 until today.
Quite interesting story behind it, I wouldn't have thought that there were - besides the AD.1 - only military airships in the UK until the 1980ies.
Away from dirigibles, let's try this biplane.
From a European country where you not necessarily would expect military aircraft constructions.
According to some sources this plane was a modified/modernized version of the Fokker C.I, however it was not built in the Netherlands.
Engine was a Mercedes.
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