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Thanks for the welcome LM and Skytrain!
I look forward to participating in this excellant Forum; however, until I have got my internet access set up at home I won't set any challenges as I usually only log on at work before going home and and not at weekends and that leaves it too long to respond to answers or question. Maybe soon!
May I venture to suggest that the aircraft in latest challenge are Supermarine Stranraers. Withdrawn due to above!
I look forward to participating in this excellant Forum; however, until I have got my internet access set up at home I won't set any challenges as I usually only log on at work before going home and and not at weekends and that leaves it too long to respond to answers or question. Maybe soon!
May I venture to suggest that the aircraft in latest challenge are Supermarine Stranraers. Withdrawn due to above!
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Most if not all Supermarine flying boats were squarish around the cockpit, weren't they? To me these are more American..... Strangely Italian comes to mind too. Carson? RR
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Mel is spot on
Well done. Keystone built 18 PK-1s for the U.S. Navy under licence based on the Naval Aircraft Factory PN-12. The ships were based in Hawaii. You have control.
Well done. Keystone built 18 PK-1s for the U.S. Navy under licence based on the Naval Aircraft Factory PN-12. The ships were based in Hawaii. You have control.
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Noyade has it.
That is the one.
You have Control
Graeme please check PM.
That is the one.
As magnesium has a density of 1.74, compared with 2.7 for aluminium and almost 8 for typical steels, it seemed reasonable to the MAI management to investigate its use as a primary structural material. In 1932 such a project was authorised by Director A M Belenkovich and the GUAP (civil aviation ministry), and a year later a design team was assembled under Professors S I Zonshain and A L Gimmelfarb, with construction led by N F Chekhonin. A four-seat low-wing monoplane was quickly designed, and flown about 600 times in 1934-39. It was also statically tested at (CAHI) TsAGI. The EMAI was also known as the E-MAI, Elektron MAI, EMAI-1, E-l, EMAI-I-34 and Sergo Ordzhonikidze.
Graeme please check PM.
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Agreed. However:-
Mel
The EMAI-1 was judged to be a complete success, with a structure weight '42 per cent lower than using aluminium, steel tube or wood'. The fire risk was not considered a serious hazard, and according to MAI the main reason for not taking the use of Elektron further was because in the USSR there was not enough spare electric power available to produce the magnesium.
Thanks Mel. Looks like it had a variety of names! This machine also had a number of names and utilised different engines, but the registration remained the same. It's all I could come up with at the moment and bending the rules, it's in colour. Sorry, but its been a long day and I'm getting old...bedtime. 
A Keith Rider, could be the Marcoux-Bromberg Special, but I'll have to look.
Rats! Beaten again!
Rats! Beaten again!