Name that Flying Machine
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From: Denmark
It wasn't Finnish and it wasn't an Eindekker, wasn't even inspired by Fokker
Some of them were exported to the Netherlands.
No matter what I did to my #1 upload, google kept recognizing it - maybe I just trained google. I won't bother then, have fun!
Some of them were exported to the Netherlands.
No matter what I did to my #1 upload, google kept recognizing it - maybe I just trained google. I won't bother then, have fun!
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From: Ferrara
I think Longer Ron can probably tell us - he's right - it could also have floats - and most of them weren't built by the original company - who were busy building other things at the time
Quemerford is closer than he/she thinks.....
Quemerford is closer than he/she thinks.....
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From: Nottingham UK
Asturias56 aircraft is a Parnall Hamble Baby Convert. Parnall also produced Hamble Babies, which had some detail differences from the Fairey produced aircraft. The last 74 aircraft were produced by Parnall as landplanes and known as the Hamble Baby Convert.
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From: Ferrara
It's actually a FAIREY Hamble Baby Convert - Parnall only produced the Baby (which had floats) under sub-contract and then all the Converts (which had could have floats or wheels) but then the Fairey Baby was a significantly re-engineered version of the Sopwith Baby
MReyn has the stick
MReyn has the stick
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From: Minehead Somerset UK
Hi Mel,
I believe your challenge is Franz Xaver Mehr's Me.3 ?? It looks to be fitted with a 20 hp Ursinus horizontally opposed twin engine. It was built and tested at the Friedrichshafen factory in 1931.
There seems to be some confusion as some sources refer to it as an Erla-3 and say it used a DKW air-cooled inline 2-cylinder, but I think this referred to a later rework of the Me.3 because Erla Maschinenwerk wasn't founded until 1933 and as a joint venture between DKW's Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen and Franz Xaver Mehr who had producedhis earlier designs as Mehr Flugzeugbau Meckenbeuren
I believe your challenge is Franz Xaver Mehr's Me.3 ?? It looks to be fitted with a 20 hp Ursinus horizontally opposed twin engine. It was built and tested at the Friedrichshafen factory in 1931.
There seems to be some confusion as some sources refer to it as an Erla-3 and say it used a DKW air-cooled inline 2-cylinder, but I think this referred to a later rework of the Me.3 because Erla Maschinenwerk wasn't founded until 1933 and as a joint venture between DKW's Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen and Franz Xaver Mehr who had producedhis earlier designs as Mehr Flugzeugbau Meckenbeuren
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From: Nottingham UK
Hi Trevor. It is in fact the Mehr Me 1 and the information I have,from the book Historische Deutsche Flugzeuge bis 1945", gives it as being powered by 20 hp Ursinus U2 horizontally opposed twin engine. You have control.
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From: Minehead Somerset UK
I have just found a good online publication "DKW und die Erla-Me-Flugzeuge: 1926 bis 1945" the translation wouldn't work, but the drawings seem to agree with your source!
Edited to say that I now see that what I found appears to be Airwar's source, so I'll have to work on the translation and see where they went astray. it looks like yours but most of the photos show it fitted with the upright inline DKW engine!
As I have just put up a cockpit to keep that thread going, I'll declare an Open House here so as not to hog two threads at the same time and hope someone picks it up!
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