Breguet's Aircraft ID Challenge #141

[Varese2002]

Breguet's Aircraft Challenge #141
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A special one to exercise for the coming magic number challenge #150



Scoreboard at the start of #141:

25.7 Varese2002
11.6 Dave_Kent
9.5 Rbailey
9.3 Rod Filan
7.3 YavorD
7.0 Breguet
6.1 joegertler
6.0 Eric Goedkoop
5.6 ercoupepilot
5.5 EdStevens
5.3 Colin A. Owers
4.7 JohnMacG
4.1 bshatzer
4 greenknight
3.3 Cruze
3 Gilles
2.7 dpolglaze
2.4 Ross Moorhouse
2 Tom L
1.7 Berman
1.2 Ransom E. Olds
1 Peter Zambori
1 Gregoire
1 cubsfan4life
1 austin08
1 Cliff
.4 Vilkata
.2 Paul_J._Fisher

Past Challenges: http://www.earlyaviator.com/br.challenge/

[Varese2002]

Already 50 viewers and no one coming up with something . This is a real specialty I think. Will give a hint a few hours.

Kees

[Varese2002]

The first hint:

This side view shows the shape of the fuselage and the rudder clearly. Also the super high landing gear shows to advantage. There is of course a reason that the machine was placed on such a tall and high landing gear.

Kees

[Dave_Kent]

Yes, it has the look of a machine designed to operate on floats, but had a land-plane version created. This is similar to the Wight 840, but I don’t think that’s quite right.

Dave

[Varese2002]

Originally Posted by Dave_Kent

Yes, it has the look of a machine designed to operate on floats, but had a land-plane version created. This is similar to the Wight 840, but I don't think that's quite right.

Dave

Hint 2 : this machine never operated on floats When I selected again a seaplane or flying boat I would have got the wrath of Breguet over me.

Kees

[dpolglaze]

Was it a "tall grass" lander?

Dan

[cruze]

A super high landing gear to add removable ski panels...
(and have a ski landing gear)


Laurent

[joegertler]

I think I saw a photo of it, recently, as a topedo carrier. But I'm too busy to play this week, (unless I recognize something without going to the reference books.)

[Varese2002]

Originally Posted by dpolglaze

Was it a "tall grass" lander?
Dan

Originally Posted by cruze

A super high landing gear to add removable ski panels...
(and have a ski landing gear)

Laurent

Originally Posted by joegertler

I think I saw a photo of it, recently, as a topedo carrier. But I'm too busy to play this week, (unless I recognize something without going to the reference books.)

Hint 3: the only reason that the undercarriage was that high is that extra ground clearance was needed. In this special instance there is a special construction beneath the wing (and also at the upper wing), which is almost invisible (or not installed) in this rare picture of this plane

It is now early in the morning. If at the end of the day we are not coming in the right direction, I will give a more revealing hint.

By the way, it is not a torpedo plane.

Kees

[YavorD]

I am willing to speculate about possibility to change biplane incidence. Fuselage position and wing struts design do not prevent such a possibility. It was quite common feature up to 1915.

Regards,
Yavor