What type is this?

Nice one Roger. I did a bit of Googling thinking it might be something of that ilk, but didn’t come up with much!

This from Earlyaviators.com, which seems to call the machine a Brunet after the builder:

In 1909, Catalan engineer Gaspar Brunet Viadera built an airplane which was tested by the Italian motorcyclist Ravelli, at the race course of Dog Tunis (Barcelona). In that same year, it was exhibited in the Valencian Regional Exhibition, equipped with a Anzani motor of 25 HP. On the 5th of September, 1909, piloted by Juan Olivert, a flight of 45 meters was made in Paternal (Valencia).

On the 8th of October, 1910, Ravelli made some test flights in Moncada (Valencia) with a Brunet 2.

Stop press! Some shots of the original machine here: http://www.funaereacv.es/Biografias/Juan_Olivert.htm

Found it is a full scale replica of the machine that made the first flight in Spain, on September 5th, 1909. It is known as an Olivert. Only 1 made, 1 flight and destroyed on landing. BW Roger

Thanks so far, glad I am not the only one who doesn’t have a clue. I shot it last week in Madrid in the Air and Space Museum in Cuatro Vientos. I have a book with most types flown in Spain, but it isn’t in there either. BW Roger

Well, I’m stumped. I’m pretty sure it’s not a Boxkite – it seems to owe more to a slightly earlier period than that and has the look of a Wright derivative. More information would be good – where was this displayed, Roger?

Bearing in mind what I know about aircraft of that era could be written in VERY large letters on the back of a postage stamp – it looks like a Bristol Boxkite to me.

Yes, I saw that: wondered if the name might have been used twice in quick succession, but there is a picture of the type in Air Britains RAF Aircraft J1-J9999 which convinced me that these two were one and same.

Flood

Thanks Flood! A friend checked his Putnam, as you suggested,and confirmed the facts. I was put off from the Venture by a note on the Web that it was a pusher type. So much for the Internet ….

Looks like a Vickers Venture Mk1: six built with the first flown on 3/6/1924. Serial numbers were J7277-J7282.
Someone with the Putnam Vickers book would be able to fill in more detail, I expect.

Flood

Thanks guys – an amazingly fast response!

Hi Atcham,
Nieuport 29… I guess…
Best regards,
Olivier

Couldn’t that be a Nieuport Delage 29? This type was built shortly after WWI.

See this:

http://mars.ark.com/~mdf/N_29.html

J.V.