By: John Aeroclub - 22nd September 2008 at 21:55
That demonstrates how little I know about Italian light aircraft. If you’d posted the eventual photo in the place of the original, still I wouldn’t have been able to identify the aeroplane!
Here’s a pic of the earlier type.
John
By: Arabella-Cox - 22nd September 2008 at 18:52
towing airscrewless aeroplanes to train glider pilots. The UK tried that with BA Swallows in 1940/41 but that rear end wasn’t a Swallow so I didn’t play.
By: avion ancien - 22nd September 2008 at 18:27
That demonstrates how little I know about Italian light aircraft. If you’d posted the eventual photo in the place of the original, still I wouldn’t have been able to identify the aeroplane!
By: John Aeroclub - 22nd September 2008 at 14:42
Well, if it’s Italian I’ve got to stack my cards now because what I know about Italian aircraft isn’t worth knowing! So unless an Italian aircraft expert is going to enter the game, it looks as if the bank has won. Maybe it’s time to put us out of our misery!
It’s an Avia Milano Meteor which is the post war version of the Francis Lombardi designed FL5 which served with the Italian, Hungarian and German air forces. At some point when the Italians got interested in assault gliders they trained some pilots by towing airscrewless FL5’s behind CR 42s. Thanks for playing
John:)
By: avion ancien - 22nd September 2008 at 12:55
Avion ancien, you got the nationallity, Revival was suberb. Poplars from Lombardi!
John
Well, if it’s Italian I’ve got to stack my cards now because what I know about Italian aircraft isn’t worth knowing! So unless an Italian aircraft expert is going to enter the game, it looks as if the bank has won. Maybe it’s time to put us out of our misery!
By: John Aeroclub - 22nd September 2008 at 00:42
Avion ancien, you got the nationallity, Revival was suberb. Poplars from Lombardi!
John
By: Mr Creosote - 20th September 2008 at 11:03
Not an Aeronautical Syndicate Valkyrie?
By: avion ancien - 20th September 2008 at 10:21
I’m having difficulty because the tension levels on the control cables, the screw thread being anticlockwise and the corrugated iron wall in the background suggests that it is unlikely to be a Pappel Sternschnuppe (unless, perhaps, it is the Italian licence built version) . Oh well, in the absence of divine intervention it looks as if I will have to wait until tomorrow evening, when you return suitably revived. In the meantime, it’s a shame that no-one else wants to play your game. Considering the breadth and depth of knowledge on the forum, I’m surprisised that some more erudite than me has not yet cracked this one.
By: John Aeroclub - 19th September 2008 at 16:42
:rolleyes:More heavenly than meteorological (and I had to look that up).
It’s earlier version saw use with several Axis air forces. Some even had their propellers removed to give glider training.
Answer on sunday evening, I’m going to Goodwood for “Revival”.
John
By: avion ancien - 19th September 2008 at 15:17
It’s not the very rare pre WW1 Peuplier Foudre monoplane, is it?
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