It certainly is (test registration LV-X56)
It certainly is (test registration LV-X56)
Something a little earlier - a chunky fighter design from the Thirties..
It's gone awfully quiet round here. This machine is European, and not French or British....
Something about it feels Italian. Put a little cheese on it and you'd have a pizza me thinks.
knowing lefty's predilection for the obscure, I'd be savouring schnitzel, goulash or something cooked over a gypsy campfire...or perhaps brewed with beer and smothered in cheese... but at least it wasn't disguised by grainy film.
so far I can't find it on ObscureAirplanes.net
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
Rob, you're on the right track - I think our resident Balkan Bogeyman must be losing his touch - this one is a Romanian S.E.T. XV from 1938, which I suppose suffered the same fate as all biplane fighters of that era.
Something much easier, and much uglier, a bizarre floating/flying greenhouse.
You mean this thing?
Was certain the biplane was Romanian, just could not track it down!
Originally, both the SPAD-S.E.T., completed in 1933, and the much improved S.E.T. XV, rolled out the next year, were planned to compete for the new fighter type sought by the Romanian air force. In 1934, however, the ARR fighter competition, marked by closed-door tacit agreements and bribery scandals, had long before been decided in the favour of the gull-winged Polish P.Z.L. P.11. Indeed, the P.11 outclassed its rival Romanian and foreign competitors in many aspects, including manoeuvrability and speed.Originally Posted by lefty
Undoubtedly, however, the S.E.T. XV, the last fighter born on the draft boards of S.E.T., represents the most advanced design to be built at Societatea pentru exploatari technice. In spite of its biplane configuration and fixed undercarriage, the prototype embodied several modern features, such as all-metal construction with fabric skinning, enclosed cockpit, oxygen installation for high altitude interception flights, radio set and NACA-ring around the radial engine. The powerplant, a Gnome & Rhône 9Krsd nine-cylinder radial of 500 h.p. (373 kW), offered an impressive 340 km/h maximum speed at 4,000 m and 9,400 m ceiling. The wings were arranged in a sesquiplane configuration, having different spans, a fashionable design of the early thirties. The upper wing was 9.40 m wide, while the lower was 6.70 m, offering a total of 18.65 m² wing surface. The length of the streamlined fuselage was 7.00 m, the height was 3.05 m. Empty weight was 1,150 kg while, all-up, the airplane totalized 1,550 kg. As armament, the standard two 7.7 mm Vickers machine guns were installed on the front fuselage, firing through the propeller arc. In spite of prolonged trials performed with Escadrila de experiente (Experiments Squadron), based at Pipera-Bucharest airfield, the ARR had shown no interest in the aircraft and subsequently it was abandoned.
Apparently there was a lot of political wheeling and dealing that killed the SET XV
I'd reached the Balkans as a likely target but couldn't find a picture to home in on the target...
I got it!! I got it!! It's a technical exercise in centre-of-gravity-gone-wrong!
Actually this flurry of one-off stuff is killing me
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
'Flurry of one-off stuff' ??? I thought that's what this thread was all about !!
Anyway, Rob, as you obviously have the over-glazed floating horror nailed, please ID it and post something from the Galahad treasure chest....... in the meantime, sup on this tankard of metheglin.......
time gets in the way.. I'll defer to Moses the Impaler!
"To some the sky is the limit. To others it is home" anon.
Well, I was trying to buy some more time to track this one down. I had collected this photo at some point but failed to name it correctly when I saved it.
I know the country and year more or less but can't find it again! What is irritating is that I have come across this one a few times in the past but can't remember it. White flag...
Same here Moses, I found this pic on another forum (actually 3 different photos of it), but the individual who posted it never revealed it's ID. One of the things the person stated in his post was "this is what happens when you fly too close to the sun", which of course led me to believe the name of the contraption possibly contained "Icarus". That lead hasn't led anywhere for me - not sure if it was meant to be a hint or just a reference to it's odd configuration and appearance.
Well well, it seems my dispensing of the booze was somewhat premature.
The floater is the Lawrence-Lewis Type A from Chicago, c.1915
Here's a zappy wee fighter. (Sorry about the thumbnails going all grotty when reduced)
REP 1 or C.1.
It's the R.E.P. C.1 Funny, of all of my last three, I thought this would be the least likely to be snapped up by the Texan maestro.......The hat-trick still eludes.....
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