Thanks, Mike!
Here is a real biplane.
Thanks, Mike!
Here is a real biplane.
It is the Parnall Pike, Carlo.
Over to Tuscany.
Hello boys and girls!
This isn't a rare craft but folded up like that I think it should be a bit more intricate....
Cheers
Carlo
https://imgur.com/PvlZT9n
I love origami!
"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
Hrrmmppf...okay I will bite. Perfect for submarine storage, the Loening XSL-1.
Thanks Carlo. (Obviously Lefty was holding back there).
Here is a nifty little runabout that probably benefited from the icy surface to get airborne, that and a stiff north wind!
Just got some info of the Farman F.171 it was designed to make transatlantic crossing.
Chris
Good morning Chris
Hi folks would anybody be good enough to tell me where I could dig to extract a bit more information on the Farman 171? By the way I also discovered that there should have been a transatlantic crossing with that plane and some skeleton information I got thru Aviafrance (but no pic)...that's all I could find on the net….
Cheers
Carlo
Carlo, I'd try 'Les Avions Farman' by Jean Liron (1984)(Docavia). I think that it's OOP but there are secondhand copies available from online sellers.
Mike is correct. I lifted the photo from Les Avions Farman page 109. It does note the 171 was going to be for a Paris to New York flight.
Back to the little guy, it flew in 1913.
Hi Kevin,
I think that is Mr. Weldon B. Cooke from Sandusky, Ohio in his aeroplane
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It is the Cooke tractor biplane! Suds for Uli. It had an inverted inline Jacobs. One of the first instances of a designer doing this apparently.
http://drc.ohiolink.edu/bitstream/ha...jpg?sequence=2
He had a promising career in aviation ahead of him, but died sadly a year later in 1914 when a strut failed on his earlier pusher biplane and it crashed to the ground.
That's a pitty
Something conceptually from between the ages (old vs. new):
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The Chapeau JC.1 Lévrier, I think.
Chapeau pomme homme that's the bird.
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Crikey -it's changed a bit !
Thank you, Uli. After a string of biplanes, perhaps it's time for a monoplane.
Mike, when the Lévrier was restored by Robert Lefèvre it lost its canopy and went al fresco. It was late donated to the Musée de l'Air and, just to show that it happens not only with the RAF and Science museums, since then it's spent most of its time languishing in the museum reserves.
Exactly. Same country, same year as Uli's previous offering. Over to you, Kevin.
Thanks Mike.
Keeping with the monoplane theme..
That, sir, is the Briggs Special.
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