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Old 17th Mar 2014, 15:44
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Nope. It is a single-engine aircraft.
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Old 17th Mar 2014, 19:20
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Vickers Wellesley
Open house no access to pics
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Old 17th Mar 2014, 19:29
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Wellesley it is. Sneaky cropping made it look like a twin.



Open house, then!
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Old 17th Mar 2014, 20:05
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Hmm...peculiar how a person can post a reply to this forum, obviously from a computer, but does not have access to photos...

Anywho, here is the next challenge:
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Old 17th Mar 2014, 20:17
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One of those mad Sikorsky Ilya Moromets things?
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Old 17th Mar 2014, 20:52
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Sorry mate, not Russian.
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Old 17th Mar 2014, 21:38
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How about those beautiful French Farman 220 series?
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Old 17th Mar 2014, 22:08
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Sorry, not from France. Only one built.
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Old 17th Mar 2014, 23:35
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Zeppelin-Staaken R IV?

Can you tell these are now wild guesses?
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Old 18th Mar 2014, 00:25
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Not a Zeppelin-Straaken anything. The mystery aircraft is a twin-engine P&W radial powered death trap.

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Old 18th Mar 2014, 06:33
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OK, I'm seeing post WW1 to mid '30s biplane, you say twin radials, all that glazong makes it a bomber, it was uniqie in a time of rife experimentation, likely from USA given engine type and was a death trap.

I'm stuffed for ideas right now
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Old 18th Mar 2014, 07:05
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Not U.S. built nor designed. Not a bomber, but built to a military specification in the late 1920s. A sesquiplane of mostly wood and fabric construction, with some metal tubing and struts.
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Old 18th Mar 2014, 09:10
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...deleted by me, didnt read preceding posts!
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Old 18th Mar 2014, 09:26
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Canadian Vickers Velos..

OH if I am right.
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Old 18th Mar 2014, 17:37
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Correct. The Canadian Vickers Velos was over-weight, too slow, and difficult to fly.
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Old 18th Mar 2014, 18:52
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Good grief how did the pair of you find that fugly thing?
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Old 18th Mar 2014, 19:14
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Anyone want to try this ?
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Old 18th Mar 2014, 19:25
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Personal transportation system for The Mekon?
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Old 18th Mar 2014, 20:09
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Old 18th Mar 2014, 20:22
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Lockheed Cheyenne?
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