Heikkis' Silhouette Challenge

[SincoTC]

A'rtnoon Graeme,

Coventry Ordnance Biplane 1912 Model 10

Holy COW, that's the one mate well done!!

Noyade has control

[Noyade]

Thanks Trevor. I couldn't figure out the tail for quite a while.

In return, here's another British biplane....

[Noyade]

Harry Hawker set a British altitude record of 18,393 ft with this aircraft on June 6 1915...

[SincoTC]

Hi Graeme,

Thanks for the clue, I'm sorry that I can't follow it up at the moment because of a very heavy work commitment and I don't want to stall the thread with another Open House.

Fellow PPruners, I note from the figures on the main page that over 800 of you have looked at this thread since Saturday and in case there's any misunderstanding, this Challenge is open to all, it is not a "closed shop", all someone need to do is to cut and paste the clue above into your favourite search engine to reveal the answer, log on and post the answer and if you are really unable to post then request an OH when confirmed correct. However, it would be much better to post something (even if it has been used before, as to find that there is some life out there would at least give some encouragement to carry on)!! We are doing our best Heikki, but I guess that you must be close to nMax spinning in your grave

So Noyade, please just leave it up and see what happens

[Lightning Mate]

Hear hear TC.

With that clue it's very easy to identify.

I suppose people have just lost interest.

I wish Heikki was still around.

[irishair2001]

I was going to suggest The Royal Aircraft Factory R.E. 7, but your clue leads me to to the Sopwith 1 Stru er,would love dearly to keep this thread alive and will try to answer one way or the other,unfortunately i dont know how to post pics or sils on here

[SincoTC]

Thanks for support LM

Dunno why the interest has waned, all too busy playing with FaceBook on their 'phones I guess

Hi Irishair,

would love dearly to keep this thread alive and will try to answer one way or the other, unfortunately i dont know how to post pics or sils on here

There was a "stickY" thread describing what to do, but the Mods Unstuck it a while back. it can be found in the archives, but it contains only a few useful hints and a lot of important points are missed.

However, it is a lot easier than you'd think and will not cost a penny. I'll write up a description of what I do and the free software I use and post it as a new thread, who knows, the Mods might even make it a sticky, but I'll not hold my breath

Meanwhile we await Noyade's judgment

[Noyade]

Sopwith 1 Stru er

The Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter? At this stage that's good enough for me mate.....

There is certainly a connection if you look at wiki but the name Sopwith gave this machine was the Sigrist Bus. However my source unlike wiki says he made the altitude flight the following day?

Sopwith 1½ Strutter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In December 1914, the Sopwith Aviation Company designed a small, two seat biplane powered by an 80 hp (60 kW) Gnome rotary engine, which became known as the "Sigrist Bus" after Fred Sigrist, Sopwith's Works Manager. The Sigrist Bus first flew on 5 June 1915, and although it set a new British altitude record on the day of its first flight, only one was built, serving as a company runabout.[2][3]

Your control irishair2001...

[heshamh]

Some fresh air.

[evansb]

identify the mystery aircraft silhouette:

[Lightning Mate]

Distinctive glazing and fin.

IAR823.

[evansb]

LM is correct. Your control.

[Lightning Mate]

OH please.

[TheiC]

Hmmm...

Another distinctive google image search result there, too. Coincidence, I'm sure.

[evansb]

Probably. If one chooses to take the easy route, fine. I, for one, enjoy the hunt. Isn't that the reason why we do this?
Here is another challenge (if one chooses to make it so..):

[TheiC]

I, for one, enjoy the hunt. Isn't that the reason why we do this?

'+1' to that; there's no sportsmanship otherwise, though the bird flushed unexpectedly into tricky skies is always the fondest memory of the shoot.

[Noyade]

IAR823.

G'day Brian! Nice silhouette image there mate. I immediately thought North American Mooney sortathing and even SAAB Safir-ish - but no luck. Eventually I tracked it down in an old military encyclopedia....these machines are a lot older than I first thought. I was too slow, but I can't waste the image...



Anyway - my hunch now is that you "Remain in Romaina" and since my Jane's recognition manuals failed me badly with the IAR-823 I turned to Observer's. I can't vouch for your top view but the front view looks right?



But if it is, it must be Open House as I'm away till next week.
Cheers.

[evansb]

Noyade is spot on. The forlorn IAR-824, (ICA IS-24), it is. Designer Radu Manicatide did superb work though.. The IAR-824 would have worked well for certain Canadian operators. Too bad, so sad.

Lovely period-shot of the IAR-823! The patina of the photograph captures the feel of the era.

As the Aussie says, it is OPEN HOUSE.

[evansb]

To keep this brilliant thread moving, here is another one:

[irishair2001]

Yakolev-15