The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[Sopwith Chameleon]

Thanks for the suds ! OH please

 

[lefty]

To answer Kevin's question, the FB.11's crash was due to it being 'deficient in control', and resulted in chief test pilot Harold Barnwell spending 5 weeks in hospital.

 

[cthornburg]

Something I found don't know exact aircraft. Except what's on caption. US Mail Plane. I sure someone here can fill in the rest.

Chris

 

[lefty]

It's a Standard JR-1B, Chris, with Wright-Hisso motor. This photo is in Aerofiles, but also elsewhere wrongly captioned as a Curtiss JN-4H.

 

[cthornburg]

Thanks for info now you chance.

Chris

 

[lefty]

Thanks Chris. This shouldn't take long, just couldn't resist such a grand lady...

 

[Sopwith Chameleon]

Short Sarafand ?

 

[lefty]

Yes Jim . At the time, the largest aircraft ever built in Britain.

Ord-Hume also quotes it as second-largest in the world - but what about those German and Russian monsters ????

 

[Sopwith Chameleon]

Hmmm Do X and Maxim Gorky spring to mind ...

 

[Sopwith Chameleon]

On a similar ( but smaller ) theme ....

 

[lefty]

A Russian machine 'inspired by' (i.e. a copy of) the Dornier Wal.
This is the Bartini DAR.

 

[Sopwith Chameleon]

to Scotland ! - part made in Stainless Steel I believe - over to you Sir ....

 

[lefty]

Something different again -

 

[pomme homme]

Phoenix Duet G-AYTT, the side-by-side two seat development of the Luton Minor.

 

[lefty]

Mike knows his flivvers !

 

[pomme homme]

Thank you, Mike. Here's a biplane from an earlier period.

 

[Sopwith Chameleon]

LOD-1 from Latvia ?

 

[pomme homme]

That's close enough for me, Jim. Over to you. I have it as the LKOD KOD-1. But Baltic aviation is to me what French aviation seems to be to others!

 

[Sopwith Chameleon]

Thanks ! That's very generous of you - here's a one of a kind that once had a famous pilot ....

 

[Moses03]

One of my favorite flying boats. Hall XP2H.