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25 December 2014, 01:19 PM
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Breguet's Crashfile ID Challenge #911
This one is for John:
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27 December 2014, 10:05 AM
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1) What I can see is an air-cooled V8. More like 70/80 hp Renault rather than R.A.F.1a.
2) Also, Royal Navy personnel around the wreck. 3) There is a structure which reminds me horn-balanced rudder or elevator. Now the problem is how to find an airplane which fits  I am going to start with Airco D.H.6 prototype. Regards, Yavor
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27 December 2014, 11:11 AM
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I think that it was probably a pusher type aircraft The De Havilland DH1 was powered by a Renault 70 hp The rudder could fit ? Cordialement Bruno |
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27 December 2014, 12:56 PM
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Good engine ID, but neither a DH 1 or 6.
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28 December 2014, 12:27 PM
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I still believe it was a tractor, not pusher. Going down through the list of Renault powered machines my second attempt is "Little Ack", Armstrong Whitworth FK.3.
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28 December 2014, 12:45 PM
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Still a miss I'm afraid. Back to those books
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29 December 2014, 06:56 PM
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I am going to say that this is an early type Be2. I haven't much to support my theory but the early Be2 (even an early Be2c) had those large discs on the axle for the bungees and skids. It also looks like there could be a steel tube engine bearer which the Be2 had.
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30 December 2014, 04:20 AM
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Chalk another one up to Albrecht
!Flight Commander Charles Herbert Collet DSO RMA; died in this crash - the burnt out remains of BE2c 922 - on August 19th 1915 in the Dardenelles. Collet received his DSO for the September 22nd 1914 attack on the Dusseldorf airship sheds. Quote:
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30 December 2014, 02:39 PM
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Here it is said that Charles Cottet was flying in a sopwith admiralty 807 when he crashed on 19th august 1915 https://books.google.fr/books?id=ITV...Collet&f=false |
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Just to bump this up and remind Albrecht that he's due on Patrol!
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