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The first picture looks to be an aircraft with the features of a French Bleriot but exactly which model I don’t know possibly a IX, although the 45 degree angled cut of the fuselage covering behind the engine may be a clue, some of his designs had that feature. The Royal Flying Corps had some of these at Farnborough pre 1914. 

The second is very indistinct but I have a gut feeling that it is the Royal Aircraft Factory RAF BE3, it has wing stagger and the lower wing is set below the fuselage and a fin ahead of the tailplane all features of the BE3. A 1912 Farnborough design that was probably only flown from there on very few occasions although it did appear at a Royal inspection of the newly formed Royal Flying Corps said to have taken place at Aldershot.

Richard

 

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