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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

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! :biggrin-new:

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!
 
Thanks Mike, didn't know of the existence of the AD.1 until today. :very_drunk:
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.
 

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

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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.
 
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 ?
 
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