Silhouette challenge
I'll declare open house as I have nothing at the moment
Arado 240? The v4 possibly?
Not sure why you liked it....
Not sure why you liked it....
I don't know why either. I was also obsessed with the Heinkel He-111. Loved German aircraft.
I should acknowledge "WARPAINT" from Aviation News which had the unusual standard of showing line drawings of the aircraft from the rear.
Thanks RR, very enjoyable. I'll bugger off and leave you in peace now. Cheers and goodnight.
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Heres one.....
a nice one Noyade. Thanks. As a child, even a teenager, I was drawn to anything that wasn't British! Strange. I loved seeking out the types of other nations.. France, Italy, Romania, Hungary etc...
Sleep well or maybe you'll see this before zzzzing??????? Martin
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It most certainly is!!!!
The plane was designed and built especially for the ace by Josef Mickl at the Oeffag factory in Wiener-Neustadt. Known under various designations, as Oeffag/Mickl H, as "A11" (Navy number) or simply as "Blue Bird" or "Blue Wonder", this was Banfield's favourite warhorse from March, 1917, until the end of hostilities in September, 1918. It was used day and night, as a successful fighter and as an attack aeroplane against Italian motor boats.
Banfield was the Empire's highest scoring naval ace and the only Austro-Hungarian airman to receive the Empire's highest honour: the Knight's Cross of the Order of Maria Theresa. An excellent marksman, he scored all nine victories from flying boats. Participating in more than 400 sorties against the enemy, he was the first Austro-Hungarian airman to score a victory at night.
You have control!!!!! RR
The plane was designed and built especially for the ace by Josef Mickl at the Oeffag factory in Wiener-Neustadt. Known under various designations, as Oeffag/Mickl H, as "A11" (Navy number) or simply as "Blue Bird" or "Blue Wonder", this was Banfield's favourite warhorse from March, 1917, until the end of hostilities in September, 1918. It was used day and night, as a successful fighter and as an attack aeroplane against Italian motor boats.
Banfield was the Empire's highest scoring naval ace and the only Austro-Hungarian airman to receive the Empire's highest honour: the Knight's Cross of the Order of Maria Theresa. An excellent marksman, he scored all nine victories from flying boats. Participating in more than 400 sorties against the enemy, he was the first Austro-Hungarian airman to score a victory at night.
You have control!!!!! RR
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Noyade, Ref your post #3872; no worries mate, no offence taken!
sablatnic, "Didn't last long!" I just struck lucky with the wording on a quick "lunchtime" search, guessing that it was post WW1, adding the (lucky) word "sport" because there was no sign of any armament, to the obvious monoplane and two seater, and my favourite search engine took me straight to the "Flight Archive" and what appears to have been the basis for your challenge. I initially removed the word Sporting because that didn't appear in the drawing's Title Block, but then after reading your follow up about being away for a while, I added it back in and added the engine details to avoid confusion with an identically named drawing for a Udet two seat monoplane in the same archive for 1923, this shows a significantly different shape and a more powerful Siemens radial engined.
I didn't have this luck with RR's previous couple of long duration challenges, and believe me, it wasn't for lack of trying!! Maybe it's just me, but I find that internal searches in the Flight archive don't respond to attempts to filter the results, I guess due to their being in PDF format.
It will be some time before I have home access and feel able to give sufficient attention to monitor my own challenge, so if all you guys keep up the good work, I'll just monitor during breaks and after work and take the odd "pot shot" when I get lucky!
sablatnic, "Didn't last long!" I just struck lucky with the wording on a quick "lunchtime" search, guessing that it was post WW1, adding the (lucky) word "sport" because there was no sign of any armament, to the obvious monoplane and two seater, and my favourite search engine took me straight to the "Flight Archive" and what appears to have been the basis for your challenge. I initially removed the word Sporting because that didn't appear in the drawing's Title Block, but then after reading your follow up about being away for a while, I added it back in and added the engine details to avoid confusion with an identically named drawing for a Udet two seat monoplane in the same archive for 1923, this shows a significantly different shape and a more powerful Siemens radial engined.
I didn't have this luck with RR's previous couple of long duration challenges, and believe me, it wasn't for lack of trying!! Maybe it's just me, but I find that internal searches in the Flight archive don't respond to attempts to filter the results, I guess due to their being in PDF format.
It will be some time before I have home access and feel able to give sufficient attention to monitor my own challenge, so if all you guys keep up the good work, I'll just monitor during breaks and after work and take the odd "pot shot" when I get lucky!
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Hi RR,
Sorry for the delay.
That was a good one as you said many names for the same aircraft.
Unfortuneately I am going to be away from most of my books etc for the next few days due to work commitments.
So may I declare open house...
Cheers
John
Sorry for the delay.
That was a good one
as you said many names for the same aircraft.Unfortuneately I am going to be away from most of my books etc for the next few days due to work commitments.
So may I declare open house...
Cheers
John
