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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Moses03 said:
You were on the right track PH, but Green is correct with the one and only D.342. :icon29:

The board is yours.
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Thanks Moses - I didn't expect that and I have nothing prepared so I'll make it open house. But I'm looking around for something...

Cheers!
 
Taking back the open house. I'll try this...

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Hmmm, spent a long time deciding which Supermarine this was, but in the cool clear light (well, murk) of morning, have settled on the Royal Aircraft Factory C.E.1 ?
 
Thank you. Keeping the theme going, another full-frontal-floater.

Expect this to last about five minutes !
 
Baragouin said:
Not a Fokker TV but indeed european (although not british, french or italian)...
keep searching please!
BG
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That's interesting! I Googled Fokker T.V, clicked on images and I see what looks like your photo, fourth row down, second from the right?....

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I can't comment. This sort of aeroplane is out of my comfort zone! However I do agree that this particular photograph is captioned as a Fokker T.V in the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archive (as well as the caption intimating that Fokker was then a German company!). But I also seem to recollect that, in the past, a number of photographs in this collection have proved to be erroneously captioned. So I'll await, with interest, the response from Baragouin.
 
pomme homme said:
This sort of aeroplane is out of my comfort zone!
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That's good to know pomme. Thanks! :untroubled:

As you mentioned, captioning mistakes happen, but I'm doubtful if they occur in a Dutch publication dedicated solely to the Fokker T.V? However (I can't read Dutch) they refer to it as an early "Cruiser" version?...

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Cheers!
 
Moses03 said:
Interesting Green. Well, curious to see what BG says. Was about to start looking at some captured Luftwaffe bombers!

I had the Fokker in mind because there is a FSX model in development. http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?90815-FSX-The-1940-Fokker-T-5-bomber

The tail markings looked Dutch as well.
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Well gentlemen thanks for your interesting comments which arose more than one doubt in my mind........however if I have to trust Pprune this should be a Aero-Vodchody A-300...
At this stage I think it is fair to declare OH!
Cheers
BG
and here's a pic with czech markings:
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Baragouin said:
Well gentlemen thanks for your interesting comments which arose more than one doubt in my mind........however if I have to trust Pprune this should be a Aero-Vodchody A-300...
At this stage I think it is fair to declare OH!
Cheers
BG
and here's a pic with czech markings:
http://i59.tinypic.com/1izgqr.[/QUOTE]


Well for some unknown reason the pic isn't showing...well I'm going to lunch now and I'll be back in one hour or so with the pic in question....
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Fascinating stuff, but I'm firmly in the Fokker camp here ! This picture appears to have been misidentified not only in pprune but several other sites - the most confusing factor being the very similar Dutch and Czech roundels.

But although one version of the Aero 300 did have a tiny glazed rear cone, it was nothing in comparison to the Fokker's 'greenhouse'. And the whole rear fuselage of the Fokker is much, much bulkier than the Aero.

The Aero's engines were mounted slightly higher in the wing than the Fokker's, and the nacelles are more pronounced on the upper wing.

Finally, I can find no cases of Czech machines of that era using horizontal stripes on the vertical tail surfaces - they all used the Czech roundel...
 
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