The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[dan_pub]

Lefty's mystery looks a lot like K1947, the Westland-Hill Pterodactyl Mk4.

 

[lefty]

You got it, Dan...

 

[dan_pub]

Thank you, Lefty.

Here is a lawnmower-cum-chicken coop:

Why does it attach the image twice?

 

[lefty]

Don't know why, Dan - seen a lot of this happening - is there a reason, though, that you have posted a negative ????

 

[dan_pub]

On my system, the machine is more visible that way.

 

[Moses03]

Okay, floundered a bit and then got the bright idea to count up the rotors (20). Did a search for "early helicopter 20 propellers".

Eventually tracked down the Kimball effort of 1908. It did not fly!

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(Wilbur R) Kimball Aircraft Corp, Naugatuck CT.</small>

1908 = 1pOH; 50hp Aero & Marine; rotors: 4'0". Empty wt: 112#, gross wt: 600#. Kimball had the bizarre belief that a large number of small rotors would be lighter than one large rotor of the same total disk area. Thus his helicopter had no less than 20 rotors covering an area of 320 sqft, belt-driven by the single motor. Drive system problems developed, not surprisingly, and the framelike machine never left the ground. It was later destroyed in a fire.

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[dan_pub]

Yes Moses, this is Wilbur R. Kimball's contraption. I have it as 1909, but it's probably the same.

Congrats and over to you.

 

[Moses03]

I have a soft spot for those odd early designs.


Here is a sturdy ship. Of course it's American, look at all the telephone poles!

 

[Moses03]

1932 design with a variable camber wing.

 

[pomme homme]

Well, I've run up the white flag!

 

[Dev One]

And I've thrown the towel in!!!
Keith

 

[lefty]

Well France has surrendered en masse, Italy and Holland are sleeping, so it's Ecosse to the rescue ! It's the Boyd Model C.

 

[pomme homme]

Should I change my pseudonym to pétain homme?

 

[Moses03]

(1) point for the Scotsman.

Final standings on the Boyd C:

Scotland 1
France 0
Italy N/A
Holland N/A



BTW- Where has Green been?

 

[wout]

Hi Kevin
Italy and Holland opted not to reply. We are already in the play-offs! You could have made it easier by leaving the registration on.
What I mean to say is that I never heard of the Boyd C.

 

[pomme homme]

..... and my best guess was that it was the overweight lovechild of a Nord NC.854 and a Junkers F.13!

 

[lefty]

..... and my best guess was that it was the overweight lovechild of a Nord NC.854 and a Junkers F.13!

To which someone had attached a pair of Lysander wings.....

Anyway, enough of this badinage, back to the serious stuff. Here's one for them wot likes trimotors -

 

[Moses03]

This looks like part of the Breguet Br 393 family. Not sure though as I can't find a photo of any that are uncowled.

 

[Dev One]

And nothing shows up doing a google for a sesqiplane with 3 engines either.....
Keith

 

[lefty]

Well, as I am a magnanimous sort of chap, we'll not quibble, though this is actually the one-and-only Breguet 392T, F-AMOD, used as a freighter by Air France. Unlike the 393's, it had Hispano-Suiza motors. Over to Texas.

(note this one only partly-cowled, Moses. Must be something to do with the Gallic penchant for disrobing at the drop of a hat............well in most of the movies I've seen anyway.)