The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.
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Sopwith Chameleon
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Curtiss model E " Triad " ?
I'm not sure if this is an "E" or "A" but both is acceptable. Aerofiles has a Curtiss Hydro 1911 entry as well. (These headless pusher floaters overlapped in designations due to all the variations).
The oddball part was from H.C. Fiske, who later was a Major with the Army Engineers.
Fire away SC-
The oddball part was from H.C. Fiske, who later was a Major with the Army Engineers.
Fire away SC-
Sopwith Chameleon
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pomme homme
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Singing cockles and ..... !
Short S.7 Mussel
Short S.7 Mussel
Sopwith Chameleon
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...... " alive alive o " right in every respect - put this in your wheelbarrow 
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Thank you, Sopwith Chameleon. Here's something from a little earlier .....
Sopwith Chameleon
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from la belle France I think ?pomme homme
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Indeed it is - and you've now identified one of only three things I know about this aeroplane!
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I think that you have it, Uli, albeit that we have a difference of pronunciation! My source has it as the Vinay Monoplan, but being French that may be an incorrect phonetic transcription of Vinet. As to it being the Type D with Anzani power, in this respect your knowledge is more extensive than mine (you'll have noted what, in my previous post, I said as to this). All considered, this one is now done and dusted and the next challenge rests with Germany.
p.s. do you, Uli, have a year for the Vinet/Vinay?
p.s. do you, Uli, have a year for the Vinet/Vinay?
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Type D:
The Vinet Type D was completed before the end of June 1911; it was the first of a series of similar machines designed by P James, all with a low-set covered fuselage below a parasol wing with the engine mounted above the leading edge. It was tested in August 1911 at Chateaufort but was found unsatisfactory.
(French Aeroplanes Before the Great War)
The Vinet Type D was completed before the end of June 1911; it was the first of a series of similar machines designed by P James, all with a low-set covered fuselage below a parasol wing with the engine mounted above the leading edge. It was tested in August 1911 at Chateaufort but was found unsatisfactory.
(French Aeroplanes Before the Great War)
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Thank you, Uli.
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Methinks this is the Lauk Cygnus from Estonia.
