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How about Hansa Brandenburgg C1 built in Romania? Or the Proto-1/2????
These look similar....
The first engine in Romania being produced 1922 by ASTRA?
Thus it is the ASTRA-Sesefschi two-seat biplane!!!!!! Ooops... it didn't have a Hispano!!!! Maybe I should stick with the first guess, the Proto-1/2???
These look similar....
The first engine in Romania being produced 1922 by ASTRA?Thus it is the ASTRA-Sesefschi two-seat biplane!!!!!! Ooops... it didn't have a Hispano!!!! Maybe I should stick with the first guess, the Proto-1/2???
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It is Romania, and RR has got there, just about...its the Protopopescu Proto-1, produced by Astra Engineering Works in Bucharest. The sole Proto 1 crashed but production continued with the Proto-2. See also SET who carried on with production under their name.
Over to you Martin.
Over to you Martin.
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Thanks Ken.
How about this one (the best I can scrape up from here!!)
RR
By the way, that was a good one. I had no idea in the beginning but then started digging and voila!
How about this one (the best I can scrape up from here!!)
RR
By the way, that was a good one. I had no idea in the beginning but then started digging and voila!
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Hi RR,
I'm pretty certain that it's the Carmier-Arnoux "Simplex" of 1922 (I remember seeing it when looking for LM's Carmier recently)
If correct Open House please as I'm offline soon 'til tomorrow lunchtime.
Thanks RR; yes, a difficult to forget shape, with a layout very similar to the "flying plank" control-line models of my youth, I dread to think what longitudinal stability was like!
I'm pretty certain that it's the Carmier-Arnoux "Simplex" of 1922 (I remember seeing it when looking for LM's Carmier recently)
If correct Open House please as I'm offline soon 'til tomorrow lunchtime.
Thanks RR; yes, a difficult to forget shape, with a layout very similar to the "flying plank" control-line models of my youth, I dread to think what longitudinal stability was like!
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And you'd be bang on SincoTC!!!!! Yes, its pretty unique looking isn't it!
As the man says.. OPEN HOUSE (where are you LM!!!?? Poised?)
Neat... a plane with a beer barrel included!!!
As the man says.. OPEN HOUSE (where are you LM!!!?? Poised?)
Neat... a plane with a beer barrel included!!!
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Yes, I'm not sure the beer barrel is a good idea!!!! oo.. er...... RR
Well, I'm heading home. It looks like LM's dozed off..... I quite expected a Mach 3 glider or something from him!!!!!
Well, I'm heading home. It looks like LM's dozed off..... I quite expected a Mach 3 glider or something from him!!!!!
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You might just as well be "blind drunk", because you wouldn't have a very good view over the nose from that cockpit position anyway 
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Seems like the reflex camber developed by Arnoux gave it stability, but it did seriously injure two TP's before it was abandoned!
!!Seems like the reflex camber developed by Arnoux gave it stability, but it did seriously injure two TP's before it was abandoned!
Disregard "shadows" chaps, except for the two-bladed prop.
The other shadows are not - they are the drooped elevators.
"Is it a Standard J? Or a later similar Lincoln-Standard?"
I'm afraid not.
The other shadows are not - they are the drooped elevators.
"Is it a Standard J? Or a later similar Lincoln-Standard?"
I'm afraid not.
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