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Old 21st Oct 2019, 19:59
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Name that Flying Machine

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

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Old 21st Oct 2019, 20:14
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A Rumpler model ?

Wait until SincoTC gets here - he'll bag them all !
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Old 21st Oct 2019, 20:27
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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.
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Rumpler C-VIII maybe.

Posts crossed.

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

It might therefore be an AEG.
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Definitely not a Rumpler.
Manufacturer founded in 1911.
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Old 21st Oct 2019, 20:43
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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.
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Old 21st Oct 2019, 20:49
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Might well be an AGO.
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Old 21st Oct 2019, 20:56
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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.

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Old 21st Oct 2019, 21:02
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I used to belong to another site doing this sort of thing. Must dig out the reference sites again.

This was your AGO....


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Old 22nd Oct 2019, 09:24
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Good day all.

There have been some strange things built in the past.

This is one of them.


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Rocket powered?
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Piston engine pusher prop.

"lifting body".
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Old 22nd Oct 2019, 13:09
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Another view...


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Old 22nd Oct 2019, 13:19
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Aereon 26....
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Old 22nd Oct 2019, 13:31
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Thar ye go.

Aeron 26 it is.

May we have another.
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Thank you, and here's the next one.

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

Onwards wearing out my keyboard....
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Old 22nd Oct 2019, 14:15
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You are correct, it isn't a Sikorsky.
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Old 22nd Oct 2019, 15:01
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Originally Posted by dook
Piston engine pusher prop.

"lifting body".
And intended to be filled with helium I believe, so really a dirigible.
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Only a later enlarged model. That one wasn't.
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