Here's a rare bird by a famous WWI designer, any one have a guess? I give Zoe 3 seconds, how about you?
Clipper's archives leaking a bit . . .
Rare one by a famous WWI designer
Here's a rare bird by a famous WWI designer, any one have a guess? I give Zoe 3 seconds, how about you?
Clipper's archives leaking a bit . . .
This looks great!
Come on troops! You can do better than that! Here's a shot of the illustrious designer climbing into the cockpit surrounded by a team that will make aviation history into the present day, oh yeah the date of the picture is June 7, 1911
Clipper's ticking . . .
Had to be before August 18th IIRC though.
Here's a clue - though a cryptic one. It has a tenuous connection with these three aircraft :
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Nice model! Well done!
That certainly is a very fine model in several ways.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Looks like a wrong brothers plane if I am wright.
Well... if I'm not mistaken, the top plane in the pic of three hints is a Santos-Dumont machine...
You're not mistaken.Originally Posted by jbmacek
It's the RAF SE 1.
http://wwiaviation.blogspot.com/2011...-1911-se1.html
Instead of doing it the easy way and seeing where Zoe's link was coming from, I did an image search on "early pusher canard biplanes." The result was some fascinating images, such as:
Correct. A Santos Experimental 1, made from parts of a crashed Bleriot, by De Havilland.
More data and photos at http://flyingmachines.ru/Site2/Crafts/Craft28562.htm
Well done troops! Have an extra pint! Zoe of course, well done to you too! The Faber sea plane was one I also built four different sizes of for free flight, some where I have some pictures . . . very stable flying model and quite unorthodox in construction as well. Okay, back to the production room for me! Thanks for having my fun! Clipper
I thought the fuselarge looked like Bleriot but I knew it wasnt one.
Did not pick it as a S-D though.
"Santos" here means "in the style of a Santos aircraft". That is, a canard design. Similarly "Farman" and "Bleriot" styles.
Thus a "Santos Experimental" (as in SE.1) is a canard aircraft, a "Bleriot Experimental" (as in BE.2c) has the tail at the back, and a "Farman Experimental" (as in FE.2b) has a cage tail.
Later SE became "Scout Experimental", hence SE.5a etc.
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