Name that Flying Machine

[ea200]

Nearest I can get is a Type 4/52

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You couldn't get any nearer, ea200, as the Sablier Type 4/52 is exactly what it is.

Attached below is another image of the 60% scale model of the Type 4/52 - with a 100% scale human being (José Garcia, who built the model) to put it in context - and an image of the only Type 4/52 (as opposed to the earlier Type 4s) to be built.

Your turn, please.

[ea200]

Thanks FV. M. Sablier was very productive it seems. Let's have a go at this one.

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Originally Posted by ea200

Thanks FV. M. Sablier was very productive it seems.

In terms of aircraft designed, yes. In terms of aircraft produced, much less so.

[teusje]

Is it the Fleet Finch 16?

[ea200]

Originally Posted by teusje

Is it the Fleet Finch 16?

Good enough. It's actually a Fleet Model 10 which spawned a number of variants including the 16. Good spot.

Teusje has control.

[teusje]

Thank you ea200, the Model 10 seemed to have the wrong engine to me.
Here's the next one.

[ea200]

I am not sure what variant of the 10 it is, but the Canadian Aerospace Museum says it's a 10. There is some engine commonality between the 10 and the 16 models notably the Kinner and Warner Super Scarab.

[Herod]

Guys; there's a chap posting a query on the thread titled "WWI Plane" If anyone can help him it will be one of you.

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Is your mystery, teusje, the Jacuzzi J-7 Reo?

[teusje]

That's right, it is the Jacuzzi J-7 Reo. Only one was built, and when it crashed killing one of the founders of the company, it was decided to get out of the aircraft business.

You have control, fauteuil volant

[fauteuil volant]

Thank you, teusje. However I think that the Jacuzzi brothers made a sound business move when they gave up aviation for hot tubs!

I apologise for the quality of the following image, which is taken from a newspaper. It's from a designer of whom much could have been expected had he not been killed in action in 1939.

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This aeroplane was modified, as below (with apologies for the equally poor quality image), before it disappeared into the aeronautical black hole that was called the German Occupation.

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It started life with a 30hp Poinsard, which was replaced by a 40hp Train. After the designer's death, his widow married the designer of the Nord 262.

[Jhieminga]

We'll go with the Trébucien Sport then. Had to dig up my non-existent knowledge of the French language but got there in the end... OH if correct.

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You've gone in precisely the right direction, Jhieminga! I've seen it described to as the Trébucien Sport and the Trébucien XI - but if the latter is correct, I don't know what happened to the other ten as this is the only aircraft designed by Sgt. Jean Jacques Henri Trébucien (it was constructed by SFCA) of which I'm aware. Trébucien was killed at Villacoublay on 4 December 1939 when a badly stowed observer's parachute caught in the slipstream of his Potez 25, causing it to dive in and crash through the roof of a nearby house. Looking at the design of the Sport, had he survived the war I could see him having gone down a road similar to that of Roger Druine and Jean Delmontez. His widow married Max Holste.

We wait the next enigma from you, Jhieminga (oops, sorry, I've just noticed that you've declared open house)!

[teusje]

As an Open House has been declared, I would like to you to name this flying machine.

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Valmet VL Viima?

[teusje]

That was really quick, FV. That's it.
You have control.

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Thank you, teusje. Now here's a sporty looking sesquiplane to which someone, surely, can put a name ..... ?