What Cockpit? MK V
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Some flight instruments indicate a fairly high performance aircraft. Is it a jet?
In hindsight, I must have mistaken the metric instrument calibrations to be in feet and miles-per-hour.
In hindsight, I must have mistaken the metric instrument calibrations to be in feet and miles-per-hour.
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Can we have that one in English
German involvement in the design? (East Germany?)
Made in a 'new' Soviet Bloc country? ( -"-)
...and the last bit just baffles me
The subject aircraft did have German origins which was manufactured in a country that later became part of the Soviet Bloc as well as the country that this aircraft was produced.
German involvement in the design? (East Germany?)
Made in a 'new' Soviet Bloc country? ( -"-)
...and the last bit just baffles me
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Can we have that one in English
German involvement in the design? (East Germany?)
Made in a 'new' Soviet Bloc country? ( -"-)
...and the last bit just baffles me
Was designed by Germany as she was prior to WWII and was built in a country that was annexed by Germany before 1939 that became a Communist country after WWII.
Hope that makes it clearer.
Mel
German involvement in the design? (East Germany?)
Made in a 'new' Soviet Bloc country? ( -"-)
...and the last bit just baffles me
Was designed by Germany as she was prior to WWII and was built in a country that was annexed by Germany before 1939 that became a Communist country after WWII.
Hope that makes it clearer.
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Thanks, now I understand. Still dont know the answer though 
Clues suggest:
Czechoslovakia or East Germany
Which in turn annexed parts of Hungary and Poland.
So one of four countries, twin piston with steering by mainwheel braking and a freewheeling nose-wheel. Avia (type unknown) perhaps?
Clues suggest:
Czechoslovakia or East Germany
Which in turn annexed parts of Hungary and Poland.
So one of four countries, twin piston with steering by mainwheel braking and a freewheeling nose-wheel. Avia (type unknown) perhaps?
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The German designer of the aircraft of origin was located in a part of Germany that became within East Germany at the end of WWII and during the war it was manufactured in Czechoslovakia and a second country of German occupation. However the aircraft shown in the photograph was a later version built in the second country.
It was a twin piston with steering by mainwheel braking but with a castering tail-wheel.
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It was a twin piston with steering by mainwheel braking but with a castering tail-wheel.
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You mean the aircraft of a similar type number one used to rebuild a version of the aircraft built by the Czech manufacturer to bring it up to flying condition?
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This aircraft was built by France but not by Bloch, it is not the MB220.
mel
You mean the aircraft of a similar type number one used to rebuild a version of the aircraft built by the Czech manufacturer to bring it up to flying condition?
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This aircraft was built by France but not by Bloch, it is not the MB220.
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I am only going what the photographer stated when posting his photograph. The French name was as you say the same as a Miles aircraft.
Will be off line for a few hours.
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Will be off line for a few hours.
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evansb has it 
. It is the The SNCAC NC.702 Martinet.
The SNCAC NC.702 Martinet has its origins on a German aircraft, Siebel 204, powered by twin Argus engines with two-bladed propellers, it accomplished its first flight in 1941, its principal role was aircrew training.
In order to preserve the capacity of the German aircraft industry for more essential productions, its manufacture was located in Czechoslovakia and Bourges in France, at the National Company of Aeronautical Engineerings of the Center. After WWII, production began again with the SNCAC. The first “French” specimen was indentified as the NC.700 Martinet equipped with a full nose, it was followed by the NC.701 with an entirely glazed nose. Major modification compared to Siebel being replacement of the Argus engines with Renault 12S-00 engines driving three-bladed propellers. although some did fly with the Argus engines.
The NC.702 version differs from the NC.701 by a modified cabin and a full nose.
You have control.
. It is the The SNCAC NC.702 Martinet.The SNCAC NC.702 Martinet has its origins on a German aircraft, Siebel 204, powered by twin Argus engines with two-bladed propellers, it accomplished its first flight in 1941, its principal role was aircrew training.
In order to preserve the capacity of the German aircraft industry for more essential productions, its manufacture was located in Czechoslovakia and Bourges in France, at the National Company of Aeronautical Engineerings of the Center. After WWII, production began again with the SNCAC. The first “French” specimen was indentified as the NC.700 Martinet equipped with a full nose, it was followed by the NC.701 with an entirely glazed nose. Major modification compared to Siebel being replacement of the Argus engines with Renault 12S-00 engines driving three-bladed propellers. although some did fly with the Argus engines.
The NC.702 version differs from the NC.701 by a modified cabin and a full nose.
You have control.
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The inflatable wing aircraft, produced by ML Aviation Ltd in the mid-1950s as the Utility. Three aircraft were built (XK776, XK781 and XK784) perhaps?
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Mel, sorry, it is not the ML Aviation Ltd. pneumatic wing aircraft pictured below. The challenge aircraft was, however, built in the 1950s.
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Thanks for that Bri. My response was based on the bathtub shape of the cockpit, but thinking about it logically one would hardly have required an accelerometer on the old "Flying Durex".