To identify aircraft (from Flight magazine)
I am having great fun reading old Flight magazines. Sometimes I trying to find out what aircraft pictured (because they don't like to give normal names in the captions) I asking Google, and often it directs me right on this forum (especially Breguet's aircraft challenge). But sometimes I even don't know how to ask Google correctly... So, I decided to ask about that crafts right here on this great forum.
This is two different aircrafts, photos from June, 1914 and July, 1914 issues.
First photo captioned:
FRENCH ARMOURED BIPLANE BUILT AT CHALAIS-MEUDON. - This new product of the French military aircraft factory has a tractor type fuselage, but is a propeller biplane having two 160 h.p. Gnome engines mounted in streamline casings in the manner shown in the accompanying photograph, and each driving a separate propeller. The font portion of the fuselage is armoured with 3 mm. thick steel plates, and a Hotchkiss machine gun is mounted in the extreme nose of the fuselage, a position which provides a very wide angle of action.
Second:
French military biplane designed and constructed at the military aircraft factory at Chalais-Meudon. - This machine is characterised by a very long and narrow fuselage, which carries at its rear end a biplane type elevator. The engine is a 200 h.p. horizontal Salmson (Canton-Unne system) driving through bevel reduction gearing a single tractor screw situated in front of the main planes and above the nose of the fuselage. Several seats are provided, and the machine is fitted with a complete set of instruments for wireless telegraphy.
Who knows what is that crafts?
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