The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[cthornburg]

a floater under construction.

Chris

 

[lefty]

While we are waiting for Chris - can anybody help ? I have been plagued with this problem which makes Aviafrance virtually unusable.

I enter the site, go through the menu, then click on one particular aircraft. It then hangs interminably, and this appears bottom left - why ? I don't even use Facebook !

 

[pomme homme]

Having tried a moment ago, it works perfectly for me. I'm tempted to say scroll up to the top of the page ..... but I won't!

 

[fabulousfour]

No problem here as well.
Have you tried to empty the cache, Mike?
Sometimes this helps with problems when opening sites.

 

[lefty]

Tried all the usual things - reckon it is a Firefox problem..


Anyway, back to Chris' floater*. Slightly vexatious, this one - the vertical fin profile is unusual, and most of all, that insignia is slightly baffling - looks like Spanish, or Romanian... But the engineers look American !

*assuming, of course, it IS a floater !

 

[pomme homme]

My browser is Firefox.

 

[lefty]

Chris' mystery - stab in the dark - Curtiss Model BA ?

 

[cthornburg]

It's American but not Curtiss.

Chris

 

[Moses03]

Alexandria Briggs F-19?

Think I found another photo of the factory floor:

https://www.shorpy.com/node/5638

 

[cthornburg]

The Factory is in Alexandria but not Briggs.

Good Find

Chris

 

[Moses03]

Not sure what else it could be? The factory was taken over by Berliner in the late 1920's but no mention of a Berliner F-boat.

Found your photo in a Virginia Aviation Book:

Will be curious to see what you have it as!

 

[cthornburg]

I had it as Berliner C-M-9 Flying Boat

I'll have to go back and see if I can find where I found that.

Also had a 1931 date for it. The Forum is yours.

Chris

 

[pomme homme]

And you all say French aeroplanes are confusing!

 

[lefty]

Nice photo on the Smithsonian site

https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/alexandria-flying-boat-briggs-f-boat-photograph

 

[Moses03]

Nice find Mike.

Up next, something less confusing.

 

[lefty]

Caudron C.289/2 Phalène with Hispano 5Q (Wright R-450).

In the Colonies somewhere !

 

[Moses03]

Spot on Mike. Five to the Belgian Congo.

 

[lefty]

Thanks Kevin. How about this psychedelic floater ? Extra beer if you can tell me where....

 

[fabulousfour]

That is a Vickers Vildebeest built by CASA in service with the Spanish Republican Forces.

 

[lefty]

That is a Vickers Vildebeest built by CASA in service with the Spanish Republican Forces.

That's it, Robert - in Barcelona !