Good morning. Okay, following Pomme's lead, here is a slightly earlier attempt. It was built around an already existing airframe...
Good morning. Okay, following Pomme's lead, here is a slightly earlier attempt. It was built around an already existing airframe...
Struggling with this one, choppers not really my thing. Looks American (at least the gents do!), thought the fuselage might be Thomas-Morse - could it be the Myers Helicopter ??
It is indeed. Well spotted Lefty! Better make that a Guinness.
It's amazing following this forum over time, & seeing all these old aircraft. Some of them are so ugly & I take my hat off to those intrepid pilots from those days. One really wonders how some of those planes actually flew, & the size of the bollocks those guys had!
Thanks so much for opening our eyes to all those 'crafts. Stunning that all happened mostly in our lifetime, & look where that journey has taken us.. Airbus 380's, Boeing 777's, B52's, the F35's, & the list just goes on....
Thanks, Moze, although we'll have to keep the Guinness on hold just now - the New Year resolution is in force and not a drop of alcohol is crossing my lips for a month. I simply have to shed some poundage !
Here's a nice shiny easy one for the crew - maybe our new friend from Cape Town would like a shot at this one ? I'll bet the weather down there is a helluva lot nicer than here just now ! (although it rained when I was last there.....)
Have at you, sir! I believe that's the AW.35 Scimitar, G-ADBL, that languished in Coley's scrapyard in Hounslow until the late fifties
Told you it was easy - over to Pomme Homme -
Indeed it is, Baragouin, with a 650 CV Hispano Suiza up front. Take it away, sir.
A bouncing Czech, sir -the Avia BH-21.
Well it appears that minimalist head-on shots are all the rage, BG, so I'll continue the trend - personally I think this is difficult but, knowing you lot, it will probably last about 10 minutes - and, to save an endless trawl through Aerofiles, it's not American !
Well it took you ages !! goes to Texas.
Curiously, Jane's has this as the Hanriot 130, with a 600hp Gnome-Rhone. Wrong on both counts, methinks. The line between Hanriot and Lorraine-Hanriot also seems to be an indistinct one -even Aviafrance is confused. I wonder if any of our French contributors could enlighten me..... (This site only serves to confuse further - http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/foru...ic=9744.5;wap2)
This pretty airliner should not cause too much fuss...
Savoia-Marchetti S-84.
Blast ! was so busy editing my post to add the photo when BG nipped in !!
Last edited by lefty; January 16th, 2015 at 23:30.
If you were kind enough to report my opinion I would say that Lefty's image is a Hanriot H131 (the second offspring with a more powerful engine Gnome-Rhône 9kbrs [450HP] while the first i.e. the Lorraine-Hanriot LH130 had a weaker engine Lorraine 9Nb [230HP]).
At first sight they both look the same although I seem to detect some differences in the engine cowling and in the vertical tail.
Well to make cocksure it's enough to lift up the respective engine cowling and see what's underneath!
Cheers
BG
Hello again ! This one is the Fiat APR.2 !
Sorry for the delay, chaps. Here is a smaller machine - I have helpfully left a clue to the engine-maker (not that it will help you much, methinks )
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