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Let's start the ball rolling with he Berliner-Joyce P-16.
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I think it is some version of the Curtis P6 Hawk.
I don't have a silhouette to post if I am correct. |
Mel's Challenge
Sorry this one is neither the Berliner-Joyce P-16 nor the Curtis P6 Hawk.
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Not Curtiss - Agreed. The P-6E had tapered wings - As a student I helped rebuild the one now in the USAFM (old name :O )
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It has a bit of the Kawanishi Ki-10 about it, but we have already had that. How about the Boeing XP-7?
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Mel's Challenge
S'Land
As you say not the Kawanishi Ki-10 as we have already had that and not the Boeing XP-7. Time for a clue, this aircraft originated from your location. Mel |
OK, last try before I toddle off to bed, the Arado AR-65?
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Mel's Challenge
Sorry S'land not the Arado AR-65.
Mel |
Is it the Heinkel He-51? If so it's open house again chaps!
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Let's try the Arado 65's competitor, the Heinkel HE 43.
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Mel's Challenge
Sorry LowNSlow it is not the Heinkel He-51.
S'land is close enough with the Heinkel He-43 otherwise known as the Heinkel HD-43.:ok::D http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6.../HD_37c_01.jpg The three view drawing shown is in fact the Heinkel HD-37. On 21 Jan 1928 the Soviet Government ordered two single seat fighter prototypes from Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke GmbH at Warnemunde. German firms were not allowed to develop military aircraft but Heinkel managed to design , build and test prototypes secrectly on a small scale without interference from the control authorities. The HD37 was a small and compact fighter biplane was euphemistically described as an aircraft 'for high speed and altitude research'. After evaluation of the HD-37 two modified aircraft were ordered these were the HD-43. The HD-43's fuselage was a little longer and the cockpit and wings were moved back, it was also a little lighter than the HD-37. Soviet test pilots found that they liked the HD-43 even less than the HD 37, attention shifted once again to the previous design by the end of 1929. Early the following year, the Soviet government bought a licence to manufacture the type for the next three years, paying Heinkel 150,000 Marks for it. Manufacturing was to be carried out by TsKB, and the designation I-7 was assigned. |
Thanks Mel, I still prefer the Arado. Here is the next challenge.
http://i347.photobucket.com/albums/p...g?t=1228811539 Richard |
What, a day and half and no takers? This Flying Boat was built in 1945/46.
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Is it a Grumman Mallard
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Sorry Mr Ripley, not a Grumman product.
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It more closely resembles the G-21 Goose, save for the sponsons.
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S'land's challenge
Hönningstad 5A Finnmark perhaps?
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Well done Mel, there is no perhaps about it. It is indeed the Honningstad 5A ‘Finnmark’ amphibian. Designed in 1945/6 by B. Honningstad A/S, of Skoyen, near Oslo, it was a conventional high wing monoplane amphibian. It was designed with sponsons as opposed to the wing floats favored British designers. The sponsons cleverly concealed both wheel and ski landing gear. It had room for ten passengers.
http://i347.photobucket.com/albums/p...g?t=1228986237 An earlier review from Flight was in January 1946. flying boat | norway | 1946 | 0093 | Flight Archive You have control. |
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