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02-12-2008, 10:43 PM
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Help needed to identify aircraft
Hello, I am a new member and I have a request:
Please, I need help identifying this aircraft flown by my grand father during the 1920s revolution in Mexico. All I can tell is that it is a monoplane, and has a water-cooled inline engine. The landing gear seems French. Photo: http://www.geocities.com/farellus/mo...ne_engine2.jpg Thanks, BatteryIncluded pedey1@juno.com |
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02-13-2008, 12:52 PM
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Mercure 100
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Midway between Omaha Beach and Paris.
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Re: Help needed to identify aircraft
That's a tough one ! No more clues (exact year, single-seater or not...) ? French were not the only ones to design landing gear this way, it was quite common for parasol-type airplanes (see Curtiss for example). Couldn't it be a TNCA locally built aircraft ? I don't know much about them. BTW Hikoki recently released a book about Latin American airwars.
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02-13-2008, 01:52 PM
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Junior Collector
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Re: Help needed to identify aircraft
Thank you Mystère. To anwer your questions:
>exact year, I can narrow it to being used -not built- between 1923-1927. > single-seater or not...) ? I can't tell by the photo. > French were not the only ones to design landing gear this way, it was quite common for parasol-type airplanes (see Curtiss for example). Good to know that. I will remember it. > Couldn't it be a TNCA locally built aircraft ? Never heard of TNCA. I will look into it. The fact that has no cowling is strange; anybody would have known its drag. > BTW Hikoki recently released a book about Latin American airwars. I will do my best to check it out. BI |
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02-13-2008, 03:41 PM
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Mercure 100
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Location: Midway between Omaha Beach and Paris.
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Re: Help needed to identify aircraft
Having no cowling on the photo does not necessarly means this aircraft flew without one.
About TNCA : Talleres Nacionales de Construcciones Aeronáuticas Enciclopedia
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02-13-2008, 07:39 PM
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Re: Help needed to identify aircraft
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Right. About the mistery aircraft, I took another look at the original photo: it has 2 seats. You can see the rear seat surrounded by a circular metal structure. This was used for an observer with a machine-gun. The machine gun is not evident though. |
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