Wow ! That was quick, BG - you're going to have to tell me where you plucked that one from !
Interesting apparent split in the upper wing. Foldable perhaps?
Having recently visited a certain boot-shaped country, I flew in to an airport only a few miles from where this baby was born -it's the Gabardini G.50. Took a bit of finding !
Like Moses, I am curious about the split wing, also these gadgets ?
Last edited by lefty; November 22nd, 2014 at 03:54.
No chance for me finding it then as Google comes up with nowt!!!
Mike - my guess is if it has a folding wing ort not, they might be aileron control rods - looks like ailerons on top wing only.
BTW what engine was fitted?
Keith
Hi Lefty!
Yes as you correrctly state it is the Gabardini G50mc (monocomando) [ingle seater] it first flew in 1927 registered as I-AWAG (reg. n. 708). Unfortunately I have no information concerning the fitted engine and the purpose of the socalled "gadgets"....
Your turn Sir
Cheers
BG
Started off trying to i/d the engine, assuming it was a 'V', only four exhaust stubs showing, indicating a V-8 - but all the V's of that period were 12's or 16's. Am I missing something ?
Here's something a bit different -
G'day mates. That would be the Wicko Wizard with the Cirrus II engine.
Struth, cobber, thought it might keep you occupied a bit longer.....
Over to you, sport..chilled tinnie for the Texan....
Thanks mate.
The Texan has a transport to decipher. Apologies for the grotty photo.
Hopfner HV-4/28 ?
That's the second photo you have posted with the new Photoshop 'Plague of Locusts' filter. Weird !
Under the wing & wearing hats to protect against locust poop?
Thought the Hopfner would last longer. Spot on Mike.
It's becoming more and more dificult to find something that will last - we've all been at this too long !
Let's see who's first with this floater, whose pilot, judging by the aileron positions, is finding it a bit of a handful in those choppy conditions.....
Re: Gabardini G.50
Indeed a V-8 Mike. The other photos of the G.50 show full-frontal and full-side views.
http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contri...iani/1727L.jpg
After digging a bit I am fairly certain it's a Hispano Suiza V-8 (Sig. Gabardini used an HS in the G.8 IIRC). Going the long route around, I could find nothing solid about left-handed HS V-8s but there are a few that might be.. and clearly the HS in the WWI SPADs seemed ambidextrous - Rickenbacker photos regularly show LHT engines but others go right... (Custom order? factory of manufacture? they were made all over the place from WWI onward)
I guess the morning paper crossword was too easy this morning
"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
Hispano V-8, eh, Rob ?? I'm sure you are right. Gosh, I wonder what's in my mystery floater ?????.......
Hispano engines
The 8B series was used to power the earliest versions of the S.E.5a, all examples of the SPAD S.XII and SPAD S.XIII, front-line versions of the Sopwith Dolphin and several other Allied aircraft types, with its gear reduction easily identifiable in vintage World War I photos, from its use of a clockwise (viewed from in front, otherwise known as a left hand tractor) rotation propeller.
Found this in Wiki - seems to be the answer I had not spotted before"!
Keith
PS Sorry about the bold typeface - can't change it!
Nothing wrong with being a bit bold, Keith !
Someone's got to be a bit bold and guess my floater before I head for Dublin tomorrow - it's from a company which produced several models, fighters, bombers, transport, etc, none in large numbers, and none well documented......
Thank you, BG, I always enjoy my trips to Dublin !
This floater is not an Albatros - it is however Western European.
Right, enough. This is the Romano R.3 'experimental seaplane' , 1926-ish, 150hp Hispano. Used for testing various different types of floats and float angles.
OH please, gentlemen - back in a few days.
I would never have found that one!!!
My offering though - it might not last until you get back home Mike!
Keith
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