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Noyade's English breakfast reminds me of the (spoof) ad for his plateful - "it doesn't go 'snap', nor 'crackle and pop' : it just lies in your plate and goes ... sogg-ee".
Recommend proper corn flakes or, is north of Hadrian's wall, salted porridge, though that's NOT English ...
Back to you clever guys on the thread ...
Recommend proper corn flakes or, is north of Hadrian's wall, salted porridge, though that's NOT English ...
Back to you clever guys on the thread ...
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So how do you call this kind of lower wing that hangs well below the belly? I have asked it before and saw it earlier today in Aerofiles , but forget….. 
Ach: underslung?
Ach: underslung?
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Evening FH!
...I feel the same as you before this one here!
Problem with Curtisses is that the vertical stab is usually much shorter than this...
My initial thoughts were in the direction of the "bad guys" in WWI (Germany, Austria-Hungary), but my research came to nothing in the end...
It is a beautiful looking bird, but we've had recently a beautiful looking American biplane, so I can't rule that out...
Edit: we've had a Ducrot in the past with an underslung wing and it was on a rigging stand too... similarities end here
...I feel the same as you before this one here!
Problem with Curtisses is that the vertical stab is usually much shorter than this...
My initial thoughts were in the direction of the "bad guys" in WWI (Germany, Austria-Hungary), but my research came to nothing in the end...
It is a beautiful looking bird, but we've had recently a beautiful looking American biplane, so I can't rule that out...
Edit: we've had a Ducrot in the past with an underslung wing and it was on a rigging stand too...
similarities end here
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Well I'd never even HEARD of the PW-8 before that suggestion. It does look a bit like it, but after my last faux pas I'm not sure. Also, call me daft but the wheels look a little, well, BIG, suggestion that the a/c may be something smaller. That engine looks like Curtis is in the right area....
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Not sure I'd be too happy poling around a Curtis HA Dunkirk Fighter: "Protoype was so tail-heavy that Rohlfs landed with a series of swooping stalls to a crash-landing that ostensibly destroyed the plane."