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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

To answer Kevin's question, the FB.11's crash was due to it being 'deficient in control', and resulted in chief test pilot Harold Barnwell spending 5 weeks in hospital.
 
Something I found don't know exact aircraft. Except what's on caption. US Mail Plane. I sure someone here can fill in the rest.

Chris
 

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It's a Standard JR-1B, Chris, with Wright-Hisso motor. This photo is in Aerofiles, but also elsewhere wrongly captioned as a Curtiss JN-4H.
 
Thanks Chris. This shouldn't take long, just couldn't resist such a grand lady...
 

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Yes Jim :icon29:. At the time, the largest aircraft ever built in Britain.

Ord-Hume also quotes it as second-largest in the world - but what about those German and Russian monsters ????
 
That's close enough for me, Jim. Over to you. I have it as the LKOD KOD-1. But Baltic aviation is to me what French aviation seems to be to others! :banghead:
 
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