The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[Moses03]

The floater dates from 1911 with the additional device on top added in late 1913 (with a patent).

From a major manufacturer that ceased building aircraft in 1948.

 

[Moses03]

Many of these were built in varying forms and was very successful for the company.

This unusual variant was first tested on Columbus Day, 1913 in the waters around Manhattan. It was said to be flying at 70mph when it passed by the cameraman.

 

[Sopwith Chameleon]

Curtiss model E " Triad " ?

 

[Moses03]

I'm not sure if this is an "E" or "A" but both is acceptable. Aerofiles has a Curtiss Hydro 1911 entry as well. (These headless pusher floaters overlapped in designations due to all the variations).

The oddball part was from H.C. Fiske, who later was a Major with the Army Engineers.


Fire away SC-

 

[Sopwith Chameleon]

...... Sorry for the delay - here's a "fishy" floater ....

 

[pomme homme]

Singing cockles and ..... !

Short S.7 Mussel

 

[Sopwith Chameleon]

...... " alive alive o " right in every respect - put this in your wheelbarrow ....

 

[pomme homme]

Thank you, Sopwith Chameleon. Here's something from a little earlier .....

 

[Sopwith Chameleon]

from la belle France I think ?

 

[pomme homme]

Indeed it is - and you've now identified one of only three things I know about this aeroplane!

 

[giruXX]

Vinet Type D with Anzani?

 

[pomme homme]

I think that you have it, Uli, albeit that we have a difference of pronunciation! My source has it as the Vinay Monoplan, but being French that may be an incorrect phonetic transcription of Vinet. As to it being the Type D with Anzani power, in this respect your knowledge is more extensive than mine (you'll have noted what, in my previous post, I said as to this). All considered, this one is now done and dusted and the next challenge rests with Germany.

p.s. do you, Uli, have a year for the Vinet/Vinay?

 

[giruXX]

Type D:
The Vinet Type D was completed before the end of June 1911; it was the first of a series of similar machines designed by P James, all with a low-set covered fuselage below a parasol wing with the engine mounted above the leading edge. It was tested in August 1911 at Chateaufort but was found unsatisfactory.
(French Aeroplanes Before the Great War)

 

[giruXX]

new mystery (couldn't find it in the thread)

 

[pomme homme]

Type D:
The Vinet Type D was completed before the end of June 1911; it was the first of a series of similar machines designed by P James, all with a low-set covered fuselage below a parasol wing with the engine mounted above the leading edge. It was tested in August 1911 at Chateaufort but was found unsatisfactory.
(French Aeroplanes Before the Great War)

Thank you, Uli.

 

[wout]

Hi giruXX
The sole (of 3 built) I.A.53 Mamboretá of DINFIA (Dirección Nacional de Fabricación y Investigación Aeronáutica) Argentina that took the air.

 

[giruXX]

that's the bird, wout

 

[wout]

A small flying wing with twin (retractable) engines.

 

[fabulousfour]

Methinks this is the Lauk Cygnus from Estonia.

 

[wout]

Hi fabulousfour
Absolutely nothing wrong with your way of thinking!