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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Thank you, Wout.

here is the next riddle:
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That corrugated creation is the S.A.B. (Société Aérienne Bordelaise) D.B. 81

The 'DB' refers to Dyle et Bacalan, of which S.A.B. was the aircraft division. Why some were designated this way as opposed to D&B is a question you will have to ask the French. Good luck.
 
DB, SAB, SASO, SNCASO

Société Anonyme de Travaux Dyle et Bacalan was a company doing metal construction, mostly for railroad. It established an aeroplane construction division, which produced the DB-xx planes.
With poor success on the market, this air division ran into financial trouble. In July 1929 it was sold to Nieuport Delage and became Société Aérienne Bordelaise. The planes produced then were named AB-xx

In 1935, Marcel Bloch and Henry Potez bought the Société Aérienne Bordelaise which then became the Société Aéronautique du Sud-Ouest (SASO) which produced the MB-200 and MB-210 bombers.

With the Front Populaire government and the nationalization of the aerospace industry, SASO became part of Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud-Ouest (SNCASO) in 1937.

And the rest is history. ;)
 
Yes, thanks for that, Dan - it looks as though France might have invented the acronym ! Oddly enough, in an early Jane's which I am lucky enough to have, these are listed simply as 'Bordelaise.'

Here are a couple of tubby wee chaps (takes one to know one...) from that very book. Looking at the amount of visibility available to the pilot, I wouldn't be standing in front of one.....
 
Texas is already too hot for me. No comment! :pop4:

Some of those RWD designs have those stylish art deco windows as in Lefty's photo. Other than that I would have gone poking into some Arado or Albatross builds.



Floater anyone?

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Nice one, Kevin - hadn't seen that pic before.

It's the Borel-Odier T from 1917. 91 built. Started out as a torpedo carrier, ended up doing postal runs from Nice to Corsica. (Nice job!)

Interesting - at one time the three tail fins were separately painted in red, white and blue - don't recall any other cases of this.
 
Hello everybody
sorry for my long absence. I had a PC crash (hard disk..."kaputt"!) but now it is working perfectly and will soon participate again.
Cheers
Baragouin
 
Lefty is on top of the French floater as expected. :icon29:


Sorry to hear of your PC troubles Baragouin. Good to have you back Sir.
 
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