The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.
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pomme homme
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Indeed it is, Uli. 
Your turn.
Your turn.
cthornburg
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Payne Knight Twister
Chris
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Plane from Texas over to Texas you have control
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We've found 2 of their 3. Anyone find the third of the Sfreddo & Paolini aircraft
Chris
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pomme homme
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Here's an ugly beast!
srgalahad
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Another of those strange "I know where that is, now what is it?" backward solutions. Maybe I'd do better at geography quizzes than aeronautica obscura...
"In France, the Dorand Rotorcraft Company built, in 1951-52, an aircraft with an original design, the DH.011. It was equipped with a turbo-jet engine with double flux, the Turbomeca "Aspin I". The slightly compressed air of the second flux (the compression ratio was only 1.18) was directed to nozzles located at the end of the two huge blades. The cabin had four seats; the design cruising speed was 110km/h. Tests, carried out at Issy-les-Moulineaux were not as good as expected so they abandoned the aircraft."
Best I could emulate in Google Earth. Arched hangars are gone and trees are too tall now to see in Street View. Original probably taken nr Boul. Henri Farman looking SW
"In France, the Dorand Rotorcraft Company built, in 1951-52, an aircraft with an original design, the DH.011. It was equipped with a turbo-jet engine with double flux, the Turbomeca "Aspin I". The slightly compressed air of the second flux (the compression ratio was only 1.18) was directed to nozzles located at the end of the two huge blades. The cabin had four seats; the design cruising speed was 110km/h. Tests, carried out at Issy-les-Moulineaux were not as good as expected so they abandoned the aircraft."
Best I could emulate in Google Earth. Arched hangars are gone and trees are too tall now to see in Street View. Original probably taken nr Boul. Henri Farman looking SW
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pomme homme
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Right place, right beast - and it only took an hour!
When that photo was taken, the best part of seventy years ago, I doubt that there were many airfields with intensive development hard on their boundaries (Heston is an exception which immediately comes to mind). Nowadays, intensive development on airfield boundaries is far from uncommon. The trouble is that, in many cases, the encroachment by development doesn't stop on reaching the airfield boundaries - which is why we have far fewer airfields today than was the case in the fifties.
You have control, sir. Please take her away.
When that photo was taken, the best part of seventy years ago, I doubt that there were many airfields with intensive development hard on their boundaries (Heston is an exception which immediately comes to mind). Nowadays, intensive development on airfield boundaries is far from uncommon. The trouble is that, in many cases, the encroachment by development doesn't stop on reaching the airfield boundaries - which is why we have far fewer airfields today than was the case in the fifties.
You have control, sir. Please take her away.
srgalahad
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I've always been enamoured of Issy and it's huge history, as well as other vanishing urban aerodromes - I learned to fly at one (Montreal-Cartierville, home of Canadair and Noorduyn).
We stayed about 6 blocks from Issy in 2016 and the only regret was not having time to go there for a helicopter ride around Paris. I think it's future is safe for now with the large heli operation and the fact it's home to the DGAC.
Now, on to a (Lefty? Moses?) pusher-floater
We stayed about 6 blocks from Issy in 2016 and the only regret was not having time to go there for a helicopter ride around Paris. I think it's future is safe for now with the large heli operation and the fact it's home to the DGAC.
Now, on to a (Lefty? Moses?) pusher-floater
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Sopwith Chameleon
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Ireland N 2b ?
