The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.
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pomme homme
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Pompey's finest, the Portsmouth Aerocar Major G-AGTG.
Sopwith Chameleon
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That's the bird - over to you ! 
pomme homme
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Thank you, Jim. Here's a photograph that appears to have come out of the family album!
pomme homme
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..... before someone tells me - yes, this one has been here before, but not for some years and then with a different image.
Sopwith Chameleon
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........... Thanks for the Message ......
pomme homme
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An early transatlantic aeroplane .....
Sopwith Chameleon
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....... OK , I have it as the Sperry Messenger, pictured with Lawrence Sperry and wife ....
pomme homme
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Indeed it is, Jim. Lawrence Sperry, his wife, his father and the ill fated Messenger. The photograph appeared in Flight magazine the very day that the Messenger ditched and Lawrence Sperry drowned off Pett on the Sussex coast. Back to the USA!
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Thanks ! OH please ......
fabulousfour
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I think this is the Bleriot XXVII that crashed 1936 after its restauration.
This is a photo taken by my father - I only had the negative, now with the Brooklands Museum - but yes you are correct except I would say it was restored after that crash - Wiki says it took 2 years 1938-1940. I have a feeling that it was stored in the flack tower at the railway end of the Brooklands runway where I saw it at the beginning of my apprenticeship in 1954, it was then transferred to Old Warden together with the other aircraft.
Another photo of it.
Over to you sir.
Keith
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Many thanks for that great picture, Keith!
I had found a quote where it was said that the Bleriot was bought from France and made a crash directly after its first restauration in 1936. A second restauration followed then.
On with a parasol, I think that shouldn't be too difficult.
I had found a quote where it was said that the Bleriot was bought from France and made a crash directly after its first restauration in 1936. A second restauration followed then.
On with a parasol, I think that shouldn't be too difficult.
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fabulousfour
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From a small European company, not a one-off.
fabulousfour
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Nothing more to add, Uli, it is the Orta Saint-Hubert G.1
Over to the Black Forest
Over to the Black Forest
