The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[MrZippy]

Hint.....when saving the .jpeg image, don't use the aircraft name as the title!

 

[Sopwith Chameleon]

That she is over to you ....

 

[pomme homme]

Thank you, Jim. As dirigibles seem to have become of interest lately, here's another.

 

[lefty]

Mummy, look what Daddy's dug up in the garden !

 

[pomme homme]

Apparently it was the other way around. Daddy dug the hole in which to hide it (from Mummy?) during air raids - despite the fact that there hadn't been a war for nearly twelve years and there wouldn't be another for more than nine years. But maybe they thought that by writing 'this space to let' on its side, those naughty foreigners, flying overhead, would think that it was an advertising hoarding rather than a dirigible!

p.s. I suppose it would be fairer to say that the hole was dug when there was a risk of air raids, which there was not when this dirigible laid low in it!

 

[fabulousfour]

I think this is the airship AD.1 G-FAAX which was built privately for advertising purposes.

 

[pomme homme]

That is exactly what it is, Robert, G-FAAX lurking in the 'hole' of the former airship station which was RNAS Capel. Over to you, sir!

 

[fabulousfour]

Thanks Mike, didn't know of the existence of the AD.1 until today.
Quite interesting story behind it, I wouldn't have thought that there were - besides the AD.1 - only military airships in the UK until the 1980ies.

Away from dirigibles, let's try this biplane.

 

[fabulousfour]

From a European country where you not necessarily would expect military aircraft constructions.

 

[fabulousfour]

According to some sources this plane was a modified/modernized version of the Fokker C.I, however it was not built in the Netherlands.

Engine was a Mercedes.

 

[fabulousfour]

Ok, let's remove the disguise.

 

[cthornburg]

RAAF O-Maskinen I O or II O

Chris

 

[fabulousfour]

It is the O-Maskinen from

What do you mean with RAAF, Chris?

 

[cthornburg]

RAAF = Haerens Flyvertroppernes Vaerkstader

Royal Army Aircraft Factory

 

[cthornburg]

From a famous livery

Chris

 

[Sopwith Chameleon]

It's the Douglas Commuter from 1926

 

[cthornburg]

That's it.

Chris

 

[Sopwith Chameleon]

Thanks ! I might be in trouble again - but I think this one sort of got off the ground .....

 

[Moses03]

Early tilt-rotor experiment, the Zuchenko Vertoplan of 1938. Also spelled as "Zhuchenko".

It was underpowered and didn't quite leave the ground according to a couple of reports I just read. Interesting design though.

 

[lefty]

Interesting - but with a 50hp motor, hardly surprising it didn't get far !

On another topic, I am having problems with Aerofiles - the search facility is not working. Anyone else ?