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December 11, 2009 at 10:06 am

Id this rudder

Hi all , i friend of mine recently aquired this rudder for display in a local museum , all we know is it is pre ww1 and was disposed of from RAAF Point Cook in the mid 1930s , any ideas.

cheers dave

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By: Frazer Nash - 13th December 2009 at 03:47

Every chance, Mark, good call. I was thinking Caudron or Voisin, but can’t find anything remotely the same in those designs. Lovely piece, though!

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By: mark_pilkington - 11th December 2009 at 13:42

Dave,

its a great piece, and certainly appears to be a rudder from an early “boxkite” type tail structure, however it does not match the Bristol Boxkite, or Farmans that operated at Point Cook and is not from the BE-2 or Depperdussin pre-war aircraft at the CFS.

It doesnt match the rudders of the Bleriot’s and Wrights imported pre-war. neither does it allign with the Duigan or Marshall local designs built in Melbourne prior to the war?

I wonder if it is a rudder from one of the NSW pre war designs by LJR Jones or Andrew Badgery?

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Mark Pilkington