Name that Flying Machine

[nvubu]

After the image of the Stanley 12-904 Bailey No. 4 9-3/4" Smooth Bench Plane - I'll start the thread.

[dook]

A Rumpler model ?

Wait until SincoTC gets here - he'll bag them all !

[nvubu]

Interesting .... On further research (i.e. searching for Rumpler) my source documents are showing it having the has the same model name as a Rumpler, but the side on view is different and the manufacturer named is different. There are a few aircraft in my source documents that say "similar to Rumpler but...."

So not a Rumpler.

[dook]

Rumpler C-VIII maybe.

Posts crossed.

I don't think Rumplers had "names" - just a letter and number.

It might therefore be an AEG.

[nvubu]

Definitely not a Rumpler.
Manufacturer founded in 1911.

[nvubu]

Yes - Letter/number combination same as a Rumpler.

Not an AEG.

One of the founders of the company was the son of a famous inventor.

[dook]

Might well be an AGO.

[nvubu]

Yes - it is an AGO C.iv. When I looked up Rumpler, I found their C.iv - which threw me a bit.

I'd never heard of AGO until today, founder - Gustav Otto, son of Nikolaus Otto - the Otto engine.
Company closed by 1928, resurrected by the Nazis in 1933.

Your turn.

[dook]

I used to belong to another site doing this sort of thing. Must dig out the reference sites again.

This was your AGO....

[dook]

Good day all.

There have been some strange things built in the past.

This is one of them.

[nvubu]

Rocket powered?

[dook]

Piston engine pusher prop.

"lifting body".

[dook]

Another view...

[nvubu]

Aereon 26....

[dook]

Thar ye go.

Aeron 26 it is.

May we have another.

[nvubu]

Thank you, and here's the next one.

[dook]

I thought it was a Sikorsky but it isn't.

Onwards wearing out my keyboard....

[nvubu]

You are correct, it isn't a Sikorsky.

[chevvron]

Originally Posted by dook

Piston engine pusher prop.

"lifting body".

And intended to be filled with helium I believe, so really a dirigible.

[dook]

Only a later enlarged model. That one wasn't.