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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Considering the current lull here, I wonder if I should bring this pigeon?
 

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In the meantime, who's going to tell us about Uli's Taube with its wings clipped ???? Is it the Gotha model ?
 
I chuckled, when I read the following on wikipedia:

Due to the lack of licence fees, 14 companies built a large number of variations of the initial design [of the Taube], making it difficult for historians to determine the exact manufacturer based on historical photographs.
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here is a CAD reconstruction of the plane that better illustrates its differences to the Taube design
 

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Found all that and more - there seems to be some debate about who made it, what it is called, and where it comes from ! (Serbia - or Hungary ??? or what the ancient Jane's refers to as 'Servia ?)

I'm going to be away today and have nothing prepared, so I'll leave it to someone else to sort out.:mixed-smiley-010:
 
From: https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Мерћеп-комитски via google.translate:

The plane, Merćep - Komitski, was delivered at the beginning of May 1912, when Merćep, his pilot and two assistants assembled it in Banjica, where a public flight was scheduled. As there was great interest in the first Serbian plane, many Belgraders gathered at the airport. Then there was a misunderstanding, because Mercep's pilot Dragutin Novak for some reason refused to take off. In order not to disappoint the audience, Stojadinović, who had never flown a plane before, got on the plane, ordered the engine to start and started rolling uncontrollably on the meadow. He managed to avoid the tribune with the audience, knocked down the cinematographer, avoided the acacia and the hangar and rushed into the stream. On that occasion, the plane was slightly damaged, so it was placed in a hangar in Banjica. Over time, the roof structure of the hangar gave way and destroyed Mercep's plane.

Open House
 
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