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Correct, it's not. In fact I struggled to find it on the web but it is there. RR
Of course he may have an affinity to it because it looks Australian! (Joke, Graeme!)
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Maybe that's just how he likes them!?!
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You sound like me mate!
Great again!
No, not French. Not Eastern European either although I'm not sure how you are defining it!
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Can't place this one at all
No, not French. Not Eastern European either although I'm not sure how you are defining it!
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Well if you can't beat 'em...etc etc
Eastern europe...former eastern bloc etc. Or is it former USSR...there is something familiar about it, probably stumbled accross it looking for something else?
Eastern europe...former eastern bloc etc. Or is it former USSR...there is something familiar about it, probably stumbled accross it looking for something else?
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Night, night boys! Off to get my beauty sleep now. Maybe Noyade will get it over night. If not I have a feeling that Carson1234 will get it....if he manages to log on!!!! RR
TES Tandem aka Blue Streak from Bellanca.
Shirley J. Short was the pilot of the 1929 two-engine experimental Bellanca TES X-855e The Blue Streak, that was built for The Chicago Daily News, when it crashed on May 26, 1931. Loaded with cargo, the aircraft was torn apart in flight by vibration in its rear propeller drive shaft, which killed Short, Richard K. Peck, the copilot, Louis Rice, the radio operator, and Robert W. Gormley, a mechanic.
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Yes it is the Bellanca TES, later called the "Chicago Daily News Blue Streak". As you say, it crashed killing all on board as a result of the single drive shaft failing after excessive vibration, which ran the length of the fuselage. It was primarily an experimental and had a large long range tank in hope tht it would undertake long distance record attempts. You have posted the only two other photos that I managed to find!
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Yes it is the Bellanca TES, later called the "Chicago Daily News Blue Streak". As you say, it crashed killing all on board as a result of the single drive shaft failing after excessive vibration, which ran the length of the fuselage. It was primarily an experimental and had a large long range tank in hope tht it would undertake long distance record attempts. You have posted the only two other photos that I managed to find!
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