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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

pomme homme said:
No, what I installed yesterday wasn't chain link fencing, Keith. Dan seems closer to the mark. I've googled it and the nearest I can get is stock wire fencing or agricultural wire mesh. Designed to keep my sheep in their field rather than grazing the more verdant grass of the roadside verge!
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Mike, Looking on Bricomarche website grillage covers the spectrum of galvanised chicken wire fencing, square aperture type wire fencing plastic covered (grillage soude), sheep fencing ( i.e. that type that has graduated size opening vertically, normally just galvanised which we (UK) would call stock fencing ) & plastic covered Chain link (grillage simple torsion). Rigid panels seem to be panneau.
Keith
 
As far as I could find out this is the only flying boat of the manufacturer.
The company is probably best known for a two-seater biplane which was built in large numbers and a handful of big bombers.
 
The flying boat is from 1913 and the two-seater from my earlier post first flew in 1916.
A development of this two-seater flew a world altitude record in 1919 and by doing so it probably produced the first contrails ever.
However, this record was never recognized officially.
 
There is little information about this flying boat in the www, however there are two (!) pictures of it at airwar.ru.

Engine was a Mercedes.
 
Hmmm, found that thanks to your clues - quite an obscurity ! Totally under my radar and I suspect most others.:very_drunk:
 
Ok, time to solve the mystery.

It is the DFW Flugboot (= Flying Boat) from :germany:

http://www.airwar.ru/enc/flyboat/dfwfb.html

When I posted this mystery I was aware that this could be a tough nut, however it was my intention to give good and frequent clues that this mystery could be solved. It seems that my clues weren't good enough, though I think that the DFW wasn't more obscure than several other types that have been solved here. :engel016:

Open house, please.
 
Robert, your clues were fine - just didn't know where to start and spent a lot of time looking for something French ! The altitude 'record' didn't help either unless you knew the story of that one, so the Russian site gave it away finally. But I was a bit preoccupied yesterday..

And, Mike, not with a hangover - Laphroaig is most definitely not for me, although I know a lot of Americans love it. A good Speyside malt any time.

Grillage sounds like a good method of cooking that wonderful lamb of yours - when are the first due ???

Here's an oddball which I think iis a newbie here. A one-off but made by a serious company.
 

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