Name that Flying Machine
Not biplane but a sesquiplane floatplane named Canadian Vickers Velos.
Developed as survey aircraft, it was difficult to fly and very slow despite P&W Wasp engines. Only one built 1928.
Developed as survey aircraft, it was difficult to fly and very slow despite P&W Wasp engines. Only one built 1928.
The Canadian Vickers Velos G-CYZX
https://caspir.warplane.com/bin/warp...ftno=200001724
I like to imagine that the designers figured that the extra drag of the windows was insignificant compared to all the struts and bracing wires!
I couldn't find the origin of the name. Velos means veil in Latin.
D26 has control
Only Velos built. Found to be very overweight and c.g. estimate wrong. Required modifications delayed first flight until 18 July 1928. Designed to Government spec for photo survey, spec changed midway during development. A quote from the RCAF test report: "It is considered that this aircraft is most unsuitable for any operation carried out in the RCAF." Later found that wind tunnel model had been inaccurate (fuselage longer than as-built), leading to serious stability and control problems. K. M. Molsen called it "the worst aircraft built in Canada".
I like to imagine that the designers figured that the extra drag of the windows was insignificant compared to all the struts and bracing wires!
I couldn't find the origin of the name. Velos means veil in Latin.
D26 has control
Such a heap of struts and wires struggling along in the air! It can be better, just when one does look at the single engine plane anchored behind it with its cantilever wing.
I did not find a photo of it in the air, no wonder.
Latin: velocis = fast.....
Open house please!
I did not find a photo of it in the air, no wonder.
Latin: velocis = fast.....
Open house please!
If I may… a genuine question.
While trudging around the interweb looking for one of your fiendish three-rivets-and-a-strut challenges I came across this “photo”:
I didn’t recognise it and assume it was somebody’s rather good steampunk (gasolinepunk?) creation. Anybody out there know anything about it?
Meanwhile, please go ahead if you would like to post a genuine challenge
While trudging around the interweb looking for one of your fiendish three-rivets-and-a-strut challenges I came across this “photo”:
I didn’t recognise it and assume it was somebody’s rather good steampunk (gasolinepunk?) creation. Anybody out there know anything about it?
Meanwhile, please go ahead if you would like to post a genuine challenge
Thnarg, it’s one of the three Vickers Windsor high altitude bombers. It was designed by Barnes Wallis and Rex Pierson and first flew in 1943. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_Windsor.
Thnarg, it’s one of the three Vickers Windsor high altitude bombers. It was designed by Barnes Wallis and Rex Pierson and first flew in 1943. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_Windsor.
The Windsors were trucked to Farnborough for assembly and test flying, Foxwarren being a T2 hangar at the junction of the A245 and Redhll Road also known as Silvermere Road and which contained several other dispersed research sites owned by Vickers which are derelict but still there.
Latterly Foxwarren was the home of the London Transport Bus Museum which has now moved to the main Brooklands site.
Last edited by chevvron; 20th Jul 2023 at 11:49.
While we are waiting.
G-CASK was a very famous Fokker Super Universal:
https://royalaviationmuseum.com/arte...irplane-model/
It came to a sad fiery end at Fort McMurray in 1933:
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=1330
I'm lucky enough to have seen a Super Universal in the air. Clark Seaborn who rebuilt CF-AAM*, flew it into my gliding club's field for us to look at. Now it is marooned forever in a museum!
https://royalaviationmuseum.com/airc...versal-cf-aam/
* Prior to 1929, Canadian aircraft were registered G-Cxxx. Subsequently, they were registered CF-xxx. Nowadays, we have C-Fxxx and C-Gxxx.
one does look at the single engine plane anchored behind it with its cantilever wing.
A beautifully detailed model of a Fokker Super Universal. The real G-CASK was registered to Western Canada Airways Ltd. and flown by famed bush pilots Punch Dickins and Walter Gilbert. The first to fly the entire length of the Mackenzie River and over the north magnetic pole, G-CASK was Canada’s most famous airplane of the 1920s.Regrettably, in 1933, G-CASK perished burned up in a refueling accident at Fort MacMurray, Alberta.
It came to a sad fiery end at Fort McMurray in 1933:
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=1330
I'm lucky enough to have seen a Super Universal in the air. Clark Seaborn who rebuilt CF-AAM*, flew it into my gliding club's field for us to look at. Now it is marooned forever in a museum!
Nearly four decades later, in 1974, the aircraft’s remains were salvaged by the Western Canada Aviation Museum (now the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada) and taken to aircraft restoration expert Clark Seaborn of Calgary, Alberta. Seaborn agreed to restore the aircraft in exchange for the right to fly it for five years. Over the next 18 years, Seaborn and his team used the wreck and those of two other Super Universals found in the Yukon to restore CF-AAM to flying condition. The most painstaking part of the process was building the aircraft’s wings. This involved nailing sheets of plywood over wooden ribs using thousands of closely-spaced nails. The end result was an exacting recreation of CF-AAM as it appeared right before its final flight, down to the wood paneling and mohair seats in the cabin.
In 2001, Clark Seaborn flew the restored CF-AAM along its original airmail route in the Yukon before donating it to the RAMWC.
In 2001, Clark Seaborn flew the restored CF-AAM along its original airmail route in the Yukon before donating it to the RAMWC.
https://royalaviationmuseum.com/airc...versal-cf-aam/
* Prior to 1929, Canadian aircraft were registered G-Cxxx. Subsequently, they were registered CF-xxx. Nowadays, we have C-Fxxx and C-Gxxx.
Last edited by India Four Two; 18th Jul 2023 at 20:31.
a new challenge - its OH I think
Morning Mel.
Very clever.
Slow day in Australia for me with miserable weather outside, so I stayed inside looking for this.
I started looking at tail-draggers, but got nowhere. Then looking at it magnified - I would swear on a stack of bibles I could 'see' a pilot with COVID precautions looking to the right.
But the scale made no sense. He was either the world's smallest man or he was in the world's biggest biplane. I blame my optometrist.
Very clever.
Slow day in Australia for me with miserable weather outside, so I stayed inside looking for this.
I started looking at tail-draggers, but got nowhere. Then looking at it magnified - I would swear on a stack of bibles I could 'see' a pilot with COVID precautions looking to the right.
But the scale made no sense. He was either the world's smallest man or he was in the world's biggest biplane. I blame my optometrist.
But just now while sipping tea and accepting your image orientation to be correct - the penny dropped with a mighty thud!
Looks like the computer artist has taken some liberties with this machine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruy%C3%A8re_C_1
Looks like the computer artist has taken some liberties with this machine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruy%C3%A8re_C_1
Propeller arc is offset and above nose = pusher?
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I think we have the Trella T-21 N450C...That met with an unfortunate end: https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/226284