Can you identify this …

It may be of interest to know that competitor No 6 at the International Aviation Meeting organised by the Scottish Aeronautical Society at Lanark in 1910 was Signor Bartomoleo Cattaneo who flew a Bleriot monoplane. He won the distance records round a closed curcuit of 141 miles, which was a British record at the time, and came a close second in the 5-circuit speed event at 56 mph over a distance of 9 miles 300 yards.

I hope this answers the original question.

Bleriot XI flies again! video clips

Hello forum.
I just dropped by to give you a vidieo clip of Mikael Carlson and one of his
two Bleriot XI in the air!

Have a look at the following link:
http://info.teamm.se/BleriotXI_spring_2005.wmv

or you will find it here:
http://www.teamm.se/product.asp?product=83&sub=1&page=1

Best regards.
/Lars
TeamM

Couldn’t find too much in my books on the Dart monoplane, but certainly the Avis (Howard Wright) had an inline engine. (Darn, someone’s beaten me to it with a picture!)

The original pic looks like a Bleriot with a Le Rhone rotary. Pretty similar to the ones Mikael Carlsson is flying in Sweden. Take a look at http://www.teamm.se/product.asp?product=83&page=1)

HashDef

a couple of years ago the Museum of Flight at East Fortune had an exhibition on the 1910 Lanark meeting. Seem to remember it was Grant Newman did the research. Try contacting them for more info.

In fact RadarArchive, on this board, now works there maybe he can help.

Ken

is there something flown by the shuttleworth collection with a Le rhone engine? from all my referance collection i cannot find any picture of a an engine that looks like that. i would more go down the route it is a replica.

Howard Wright Monoplane

Found this picture here:

http://www.mfarchive.modelstuff.co.uk/earlybirds/earlybirds.htm

“The Scottish Aviation Syndicate (was) formed in late 1910 to buy and operate aircraft, including Avis monoplanes designed (in) 1911 by Howard Wright”

Extract from “The World Encyclopaedia of Aircraft Manufacturers” by Bill Gunston.

Possibly another clue?

the engine on it does not look like a bleriot engine. comparing it to the shuttleworth collections example.

Many thanks for those leads which have been very useful.

A six day aviation meeting took place on Lanark race course, starting 6th August 1910. It is mentioned in the Putnam book “Bristol Aircraft since 1910”, as two Boxkites were there. One had a competition number 19 on the tail, so the ‘6’ on this ‘Bleriot’ could be a competition number from the same event.

Andy

If not a Bleriot XI it’s one of a number of ‘close copies’ e.g…..

a ‘Scottish Aviation Company Dart’ or a ‘Hill Monoplane’
that seem to have been built around c.1910 – 1912

Source Putnam ‘British Aircraft 1809 – 1914

Regards

Chris

Seems to me like a Bleriot XI

http://rafaero.free.fr/Photos/bleriot11.jpg