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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Hi Baragouin !
That is the one :icon29:. You keep amazing me (us) with your vast knowledge of these oldies.
Here is the picture in full glory

Your turn Sir
 

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wout said:
Hi Baragouin !
That is the one :icon29:. You keep amazing me (us) with your vast knowledge of these oldies.
Here is the picture in full glory

Your turn Sir
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Thanks Wout! coming from you it's a real compliment!
Talking about oldies here's a neat photo of a very old and rare Aircraft (and its crew)....
Cheers
BG
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Struggling a bit here, BG. Obviously looks like an Italian reg, but that could be a red herring.....

Thought it might be Lombarda, but the now thinking perhaps Pomilio ? Looks like a special machine for a record attempt ?
 
lefty said:
Struggling a bit here, BG. Obviously looks like an Italian reg, but that could be a red herring.....

Thought it might be Lombarda, but the now thinking perhaps Pomilio ? Looks like a special machine for a record attempt ?
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I'm afraid you're barking the wrong tree Lefty.
I'll give you a small but important clue the first registration letter isn't an I but a L
Cheers
BG
 
Dohhh, basic mistake yet again !

Well, that means it must be an Aero 14 Brandenburg - funnily enough there are a few photos of these gentlemen on the net - sitting in L-BARI (must be a sister ship of this, because I don't think that's an 'I' at the end.)
 
lefty said:
Dohhh, basic mistake yet again !

Well, that means it must be an Aero 14 Brandenburg - funnily enough there are a few photos of these gentlemen on the net - sitting in L-BARI (must be a sister ship of this, because I don't think that's an 'I' at the end.)
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And an Aero A14 it is indeed!:applause:
Your turn Lefty
BG
 
The big Italian brute is the Bastianelli P.R.B. of 1921. It reportedly flew well but did not enter production.
 
Moses knows his Bastianellis....:icon29:

Seems to be a very large gap between upper and lower wings - I wonder if there is an optimum figure for this ?
 
Unfortunately Wiki (as usual) has its data wrong, so I cannot guess at the wing chord (103 ft span for a wing area of 132 sq ft???)
Keith
 
Here is another photo I have of the P.R.B. Pretty decent sized machine!

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And the next mystery...a little runabout...

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Edit: Found a couple more photos of the P.R.B. that I had not seen before. So we know it survived into 1922. Note the large "PRB" letters painted on the nose.
 

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Moses03 said:
Here is another photo I have of the P.R.B. Pretty decent sized machine!

nozgb6.jpg



And the next mystery...a little runabout...

j0xhu9.jpg




Edit: Found a couple more photos of the P.R.B. that I had not seen before. So we know it survived into 1922. Note the large "PRB" letters painted on the nose.
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Hi boys and girls!
Nice find of the P.R.B. never heard of it!
Anyway the pictured Aircraft is the De Bernardi MdB-02 "Aeroscooter" of 1959. One copy is shown at the Caproni Museum in Northern Italy...
Cheers
BG
 
lefty said:
Looks like the Praga BH-36 to me, BG. Was that not a one-off prototype ?
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You're as usual right my dear Lefty! It is the Praga BH36:applause:....my stupid comments are due to the fact that some sources (wrongly) maintain that the BH36 was the ancestor of the Praga BH39 or E39...
Therefore your turn please
BG
 
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