Silhouette challenge
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Not American in any sense of the word!
Digging a little, although not connected with the Flivver in any way, I have found the word "Ford" used in a magazine article to to describe its manufacturer's intentions and expectations, that is, it being cheap to build in quantity and using a low-powered engine and thus become ubiquitous!
Changed the wording 'coz the word "Ford" may have been used by the manufacturer rather than a journo!
Digging a little, although not connected with the Flivver in any way, I have found the word "Ford" used in a magazine article to to describe its manufacturer's intentions and expectations, that is, it being cheap to build in quantity and using a low-powered engine and thus become ubiquitous!
Changed the wording 'coz the word "Ford" may have been used by the manufacturer rather than a journo!
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Work's done so time for some serious research!
I will put my light back on as soon as I get home and can resuscitate my router!! I'm hoping that the engineers have sorted out my line today, but there's no change in my "fault status" on their website, so I expect it'll be an evening of inconvenient drop-outs with "masonic-like" rituals and obscene incantations to get the bl
y thing to connect again at a very slow speed, oh joy!!BTW. It's not British.
Off in ten minutes, back around forty!
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probably because I wasn't expecting anyone to compare a German machine with a Ford!
However, it didn't quite live up to expectations with a production "run" of just six!That's near enough for me, it is the Dietrich Gobiet DP-VII Sport Monoplane
Here is where I found that comment:
aero show | vii | dietrich-gobiet | 1924 | 0286 | Flight Archive
skytrain10 has control
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Thanks Ken,
I think that I'm going to give up the unequal struggle with this dodgy and very slow connection and log off before it goes down again. I've struggled through a fair number of candidates without luck so far and have got an early start tomorrow. I'll pick it up at coffee break in the morning if the night/early morning-shift don't nab it first.
Goodnight and sleep well
I think that I'm going to give up the unequal struggle with this dodgy and very slow connection and log off before it goes down again. I've struggled through a fair number of candidates without luck so far and have got an early start tomorrow. I'll pick it up at coffee break in the morning if the night/early morning-shift don't nab it first.
Goodnight and sleep well
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If Graeme or Bri haven't jumped in and got it overnight
I had a sneaky feeling that it wouldn't be that straightforward Ken, probably with a no photo entry on Aerofiles and I had abandoned trying to goggle all those due to my lousy connection, but I didn't figure on there being photos (without the cowl), but you hadn't used them. The clues were there though and I should have remembered that RCM photo from when the K-K was on Aviaquiz a few weeks back!
Great challenge Ken and a good find Brian
