The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Same here. I suspect Vols 3 and 4 may never appear - it's the same as the 'Aircraft of the Third Reich' shambles - low-volume, expensive specialist books are just not worth publishing, especially in this digital age. I wonder how many of the Oz books have actually sold - maybe a couple of hundred ? Some libraries will have 'em but not many individuals, I fear.
 
Now, that is a really hefty price. 229 AUD is about 150 € or 180 US $. My by far most expensive book until now was about half of that.
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Would love to see it, though.

On with a nice parasol.
 

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Please forgive me persisting, briefly, with the book publishing tangential excursion. I've noticed in France, over the past few years, a few highly specialist books being proposed for publication on a subscription basis, these being books which, probably, would struggle to find a publisher because their subjects are very narrow, of limited interest and unlikely to find enough purchasers otherwise to make publication financially viable from the publisher's perspective. This appears to have been done on the basis of the publisher proposing a unit price, calculating the 'break even' cost of publication and inviting pre-publication orders - and then proceeding to publication only if sufficient orders at that price are received to cover the 'break even' cost. Blue Ciel published Roger Gaborieau's 'L'Aviation Légère en France 1920 - 1942' on that basis. Inevitably the more limited is the demand for a specific title, the higher is likely to be the pre-publication order price - especially if the title is substantial in size - and this may mean that purchasers will need to have deep pockets. But this might represent the difference between the book being published and remaining a draft - and enable the title to have an existence as a 'hard' copy. I may be something of a dinosaur but I prefer, particularly when used as research tools, to have a such titles in 'hard' rather than 'digital' form. Furthermore, I suspect that 'hard' copies may better stand the test of time and have a higher chance of being extant a century hence than may be the case with the same title in 'digital' form.
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While working on my project and working on Wight Aircraft I came across the picture from post 11880 on Oct 3, 2015. The pix I found was on Wiki which doesn't lead to 100% confidence. This time they caption stated it was the Wight Baby. Back in 2015 we didn't come up with an answer. I have the Wight book by Goodall. The info states that 3 were made but have only found pixs confirmed of 9097/8 not one of 9100 the first aircraft.
The pix on the plus side:

The fuselage looks the same, the attachment points for the float supports seem the same as does the attachment points for the top wing. Did say the tried a two bladed prop. The floats seem the same and the tailplane is similar.
The wing is different as it's two bay and only described as one bay in the info. The float struts are arranged different.

So has anyone seen a confirmed pix of 9100?

As with current discussion I do have the Aussie books Vol 1,2 which I got I think for $40/each on sale. If anyone needs some info from them.
Also know several aviation book authors and it's not a full time job making aviation books.

Chris
 

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Still working on the floater, Chris. Don't think it is the Wight baby - far too many differences from the other prototypes, and no mention in any of the sources I have of such a machine.

Re your new mystery -a rather tired and tatty biplane - intrigued by the underwing markings - Guatemala ?
 
Well Chris floored us there. It's getting difficult to find flying machines that haven't been posted here before, but i couldn't find any mention of this one, which just has to be included for its sheer elegance........(and it's nice and grainy) Sophisticated cockpit entry system too..
 

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Is the 'sophisticated cockpit entry system' what is commonly known as a ladder?

It has a look of Martinsyde about it - but I doubt that it is.
 
Jim got it :very_drunk:

Another 'police colonial' machine so beloved of the French...must have been pretty claustrophobic in there, Gauloise fumes and all, and no windows.........
 
Thought this one had been used before but couldn't find it in search.

Well known company.

Chris
 

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