Name that Flying Machine
looks like passenger windows behind the gentleman in the black hat?
French?
French?
I have this nagging feeling I've seen it before but WHERE??
Is it something to do with TravelAir out of Wichita??
Is it something to do with TravelAir out of Wichita??
A Different Mann
When a gap allows, would the mods permit, in the interests of accuracy, a reference back to post #4229 , concerning the designer of the Mann & Grimmer M. 1? That 'Mann' was not the Mann and Edgerton Mann, who was a Gerald, but one of the two people who designed and sold early A-frame twin pusher rubber-powered model aircraft "guaranteed to fly at least a quarter of a mile" in Surbiton just before WW1. The south-west suburbs of London seem to have been quite a centre of activity for both model and full-sized aviation around that time; as well as Mann and Grimmer, Sopwith was based at nearby Kingston as was Clarkes, whose main product was aircraft propellers, as well as Britain's first ready-to-fly model aircraft.
The subject and a lot more is covered in detail in A Century of British Free Flight, published by the British Model Flying Association. Is a link allowed? https://shop.bmfa.org/product/a-cent...ee-flight-book
The subject and a lot more is covered in detail in A Century of British Free Flight, published by the British Model Flying Association. Is a link allowed? https://shop.bmfa.org/product/a-cent...ee-flight-book
Ah! Cleveland's a bit of a giveaway. It's a Glenn Martin TG1, an unsuccessful civvie version of their T4M torpedo bomber.
edit. I suspect the pic below is the Great Lakes built TG2 with a Wright 1820 Cyclone instead of the original P & W engine.
edit. I suspect the pic below is the Great Lakes built TG2 with a Wright 1820 Cyclone instead of the original P & W engine.
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That'll do me Mel.
Back to you.
Martin had moved out by then and Great Lakes acquired the factory. Aerofiles have dubbed it thus...
I originally made sure to crop that torpedo accommodating undercart.
Cheers!
Back to you.
Martin had moved out by then and Great Lakes acquired the factory. Aerofiles have dubbed it thus...
I originally made sure to crop that torpedo accommodating undercart.
Cheers!
Torpedo was closely underslung on the Martin, and maybe the extra strutting was to prevent snagging as it fell away. Can’t work out what those eight vertical “hooks” next to the wheels are for though? The Great Lakes still has the mountings and what looks like a control cable.
Torpedo was closely underslung on the Martin, and maybe the extra strutting was to prevent snagging as it fell away. Can’t work out what those eight vertical “hooks” next to the wheels are for though? The Great Lakes still has the mountings and what looks like a control cable.
https://www.history.navy.mil/our-col.../NH-70991.html
The hook was designed to catch a lateral arresting wire, as is used now. The small anchor-shaped hooks on the short axle- like members projecting inboard from each main wheel were intended to snag some of a series of fore-and-aft wires and keep the plane from veering off the flight deck to either side after hooking the arresting wire. These fore-and-aft wires, fitted to LEXINGTON when she was first commissioned in 1927, were removed about 1929
The hook was designed to catch a lateral arresting wire, as is used now. The small anchor-shaped hooks on the short axle- like members projecting inboard from each main wheel were intended to snag some of a series of fore-and-aft wires and keep the plane from veering off the flight deck to either side after hooking the arresting wire. These fore-and-aft wires, fitted to LEXINGTON when she was first commissioned in 1927, were removed about 1929
Is the challenge Russian - interesting front end..................
Looks like a Rotax 2 cyl 2 stroke; fan cooled; the 'things' on the side of the cowling being the covers for the carbs at the top and exhaust pipes below..
End plates on the wingtips.
Course I'm probably talking b0ll0cks.
End plates on the wingtips.
Course I'm probably talking b0ll0cks.
doesn't even look like English to us non-mechanical types......................... 