Weird Plane photo-

I can't read and understand French very good, but as I read, it was a prototype with 25mm guns ??
Thanks for the info
Wolfi
 
So, whats the consensus on that turret like contraption between the cockpit and the leading edge of the wing?

Think these two ever flew in action or were they just prototypes thrown onto the scrap heap?

MR
 
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MaskRider said:
So, whats the consensus on that turret like contraption between the cockpit and the leading edge of the wing?

Think these two ever flew in action or were they just prototypes thrown onto the scrap heap?

MR
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Sorry guys, you all got it wrong.....bear with me and I shall explain.

Back in the days when Luckydog was a pup and Maskrider had left high school around about 1920ish, the british government and the russians gifted the french with some rather dubious tokens of friendship,

namely and old Whippet tank
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and a tricycle tank made by some ruskie miners using what bits were to hand (pit-head lift wheels, rail track etc).
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The French sensibly not trusting either donated these to the Belgians, who experimented with these carcasses until the unfortunate arrival of the German army who photographed them in situ after the locals had tried to camouflage them as aircraft, which is what you see.

After the occupation, these relics were rediscovered and smuggled to Sth America by a group of neo-gnomes and hobbits
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further discussion in part 2
 
Part 2

continuance

Further experiments had led to the development of the

Steam Tank
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and the Lego Walking Tank.
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At this time, events elsewhere led by a

pioneer hobbit brigade.
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Found Marmite to their liking, so much so that when they encountered a

Marmalade Explorer,
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they quickly smothered her in the stuff and cooked her.

This led to the future Toast Wars of 2022.
http://www.colony-wars.com/mw/index.php?title=The_Toast_Wars

So you see, from small beginnings this has escalated into a Marmite, Marmalade confligation of galactic proportions with the outcome unsure until the Earth is turned into another battleground by the gnomes and hobbits.

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regardless Collin:icon_lol::icon_lol:
 
Collin said:
continuance

Further experiments had led to the development of the

Steam Tank
View attachment 22243

and the Lego Walking Tank.
View attachment 22244

At this time, events elsewhere led by a

pioneer hobbit brigade.
View attachment 22247

Found Marmite to their liking, so much so that when they encountered a

Marmalade Explorer,
View attachment 22242

they quickly smothered her in the stuff and cooked her.

This led to the future Toast Wars of 2022.
http://www.colony-wars.com/mw/index.php?title=The_Toast_Wars

So you see, from small beginnings this has escalated into a Marmite, Marmalade confligation of galactic proportions with the outcome unsure until the Earth is turned into another battleground by the gnomes and hobbits.

View attachment 22245

regardless Collin:icon_lol::icon_lol:
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I think you must use your creativity in something more useful, like the Vanguard, Revenge and Queen Elizabeth battleships...

:173go1:
:icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol:

Cheers

Pepe

PS: Nice story!
 
MaskRider said:
So, whats the consensus on that turret like contraption between the cockpit and the leading edge of the wing?

Think these two ever flew in action or were they just prototypes thrown onto the scrap heap?

MR
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I have not seen a consensus on this yet, but some of the theories are interesting. One is that they were movie props. Another is that they were mock-ups. They might have been built to defend against a possible aerial bombardment of Paris.

The apparent lack of vertical gun traverse slots is an interesting detail.

It's pretty wide open right now, what's your theory?
 
It's pretty wide open right now, what's your theory?
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1. The photo is doctored and a fake.
2. Possibly some sort of jury rig to a prototype to provide some ground fire support just as they sit.


The movie prop is a good notion.
 
Very nice sir,your exhibiting nostalga!...Often one does that as the Autum of ones life is realized..
if uncle Al does not get you,why its joyfully sad!!..just the other day,I heard this again....like it was only testerday!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkZLkF_eJoo


along with this also....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0lUXnAs-U

CIAO! my friend!!
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"When death Smiles at You,all One Can Do Is Smile Back" Marcus Aurelius's
 
Farman Aircraft

Has anyone guest Farman Aircraft yet...........

I would say this is a shot of a hoax compiliation of Farman Aircraft parts or at the Farman factory.

I would say part or the trick is that the turrent part is an upside down Farman Fx-4 or a Farman 221 (see the tubes for the engine coming out of the turrent???

Farman had a mini wing engine arrangment on the lower part of fuselage. If flipped upside down would appear to be the main wing????

the nose is a Farman Vultee stuck on a Farman Fx-4

or a recovered glider from DDay???

The tail are from a Farman 224 "Jules Verne"
 
WEIRD AIRCRAFT

Have been poking away at this puzzle and something strikes me that we haven't considered. Looking at the tail is it possible tha thoe are the tail stripes of a VICHY France aircraft? Hatd to tell in the photo the colors. Also there appear to be some insignia under the cockpits, the one on the right looks like a wide bar with smaller angled lines intersecting it in a black field circle.
Just something to ponder.
Investigation to be continued.:icon_lol:
 
Aircraft of the 1930's

The 1930's aircraft.............post depression

We are in a post recession period very similiar to the mid to late 1930's.

The 1930's was Art Deco and flamboyant design.

This wierd aircraft maybe a commentary of parts from the last era during the early start of WWII??

French design was sadly the victim of this cold slap in the face end of 1930's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPgS26ZhqZs
 
strange aircraft

During the 1920's it appears that there was a French Defense Minister that favored a all in one aircraft for Bombing, Combat and Reconnisance (B.C. R.). In the pursuit of this dream aircraft several protypes were developed and discarded as deficent. Could this have one of the prototypes?
 
INTERESTING TIDBIT

Found this little tidbit re; Chievres over at : http://www.garrisonchievres.eur.army.mil/sites/local/pages/history.htm
"At the end of December 1940, the Italian government recalled the Italian Air Corps from Belgium as the military situation was becoming increasingly worse in the Mediterranean area.
Once again occupying Chievres, the Germans, in order to deceive allied reconnaissance aircraft, had fifty oxen working on the base, a thousand sheep grazed to keep the grass down and crops were cultivation. To enemy aircraft flying overhead, all that could be seen from the Chièvres sky was the usual agricultural activities. The Germans also built a fake airfield in the small village of Aubechies. This "airfield" was composed of two wooden hangars and two "dummy" planes, which looked like bombers. At night during air raids, the fake hangars, buildings and runways were lighted in order to be seen and thus divert the Allies' attention from Chièvres"
Could these be some of the dummy bombers made up to deceive Allied air reconnisance?
 
I was back at Randy's Restaurant by Boeing Field and found a book called "The Complete Book of World War II Aircraft". Very well done but obviously incomplete.:salute:
 
Collin said:
Sorry guys, you all got it wrong.....bear with me and I shall explain.

Back in the days when Luckydog was a pup and Maskrider had left high school around about 1920ish, the british government and the russians gifted the french with some rather dubious tokens of friendship,

namely and old Whippet tank
View attachment 22236

and a tricycle tank made by some ruskie miners using what bits were to hand (pit-head lift wheels, rail track etc).
View attachment 22235

The French sensibly not trusting either donated these to the Belgians, who experimented with these carcasses until the unfortunate arrival of the German army who photographed them in situ after the locals had tried to camouflage them as aircraft, which is what you see.

After the occupation, these relics were rediscovered and smuggled to Sth America by a group of neo-gnomes and hobbits
View attachment 22234


further discussion in part 2
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Yes and we Hobbits and Gnomes are prepared to use our hidden store of weapons..
Let it be fore warned, The Gnome liberation front has declared, a state of WAR
on all gardens and yards in the USA and England!!!

I can't control these MAD Gnomes and Pixies..
They shall use all force needed to ensure the freedom of all Gnomes held in captivity..

First the freedom of Gnomes in the english speaking countries and then The World..:applause:

They have become a dangerous lot, they even scare themselfs they are so Dangerous..
First the gardens and yards of England then the USA shall be attacked!!!
Afterwards the World!!

Keep all small pets inside, cover the windows, and close the doors, for we are prepared to
Free all oppressed and those in Bondage..:icon_lol:
Guard your knee caps and ankles.. We are on the March!!!
On goes the Ring,
:pop4:
 
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