The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[fabulousfour]

It is the Caproni Ca.48, here in Argentininan service.

Over to you, Mike.

 

[lefty]

Thanks Robert. Here's another easy one, but a newcomer to this forum. I saw its makers once described as 'a company that rivalled the French in consistently producing ugly aeroplanes'. I think he had a point.......

 

[Green]

Blackburn Sidecar.

 

[lefty]

Indeed, G. Over to you.......

 

[Green]

Cheers mate!

 

[Moses03]

Torpedo alley with a Blackburn Firebrand.

 

[Green]

Indeed. One of the better looking Blackburns.

 

[Moses03]

Thanks Green.

Back to the water...

 

[pomme homme]

It looks like an early Farman Hydravion but, if so, I don't know which model!

Edit: that's no Farman - it's the Bossi hydroplane of 1913 which, according to Jane's, was 'the first Italian hydroplane to fly with marked success'.

 

[Moses03]

Farmanesque for sure Mike but not French...


Edit: I had faith in you Mike. It is the Bossi! (Actually the Bossi 4 to be precise).

 

[pomme homme]

Thank you, Kevin.

Was the photograph taken on Lake Como? If so, I assume that the sailing vessel is a Comballo but I haven't before seen one with a lateen sail.

Anyhow, as this isn't the mystery sailling vessel thread, here's an natty little sporting machine for gentlemen aviators (and I apologise, in advance, for the miniscule image size).

 

[Moses03]

It was Lake Como. Photo is dated March 1914.

 

[giruXX]

For pomme homme's mystery, I'll throw a coin on the Gabriel P 5

 

[pomme homme]

Yes, that's it exactly, Uli. And thank you, Kevin, for the location and date of the penultimate photo. Over to Germany.

 

[giruXX]

How about this midget?

 

[Moses03]

The diminutive Italian, Fongri De Grignani of 1931.

 

[giruXX]

yes, of course

 

[Dev One]

Which came first I wonder - Nick Compers Swift or the little Italian?
Keith

 

[Moses03]

I think the Swift beat it by a year or so.

Here is one that won't win many beauty contests. (Although I like the pusher layout of course).

 

[pomme homme]

That beauty is the SNCAN Nord N.2100 Norazur.