1920’s Flying Biycycle

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/A-very-rare-find-of-a-1920s-flying-bicycle-from-Brest-France-Truly-a-one-off-/271045718298?pt=UK_CPV_Aviation_SM&hash=item3f1b95711a

Richard

Me too, Lovely man!! Remember one day I popped along to have a look at a Mossi in the hanger, up rolled Doug Arnold in his Roller DA 1 and taught me a few new words 😀
What became of the Mosquito??

Easty

The Mossie was sold and flown to Dayton, Ohio and is now part of the USAF museum. It has been modified to represent a PR.XVI NS519.

Richard

Between 1963 and 1968 I was living at Newbury and attending a school a few miles to the west of Greenham Common.
It is one of my most vivid aviation memories from that time seeing the stream of Hastings roar overhead the school, I cannot remember how often it happened or exactly how many were in the stream but they were certainly very low and only seconds apart.
They came from the North East direction (Lyneham, Colerne I assume) and for some reason I think they were heading for the Hankley Common DZ but I do not know why I have that in my mind, probably more recent knowledge.
The Beverley’s did also trundle around in line astern like some sort of armada and so did the Argosies and Andovers but always at a couple of thousand feet or so and never at the same low altitude as the Hastings.
It all came to a sudden halt on the 6th on July 1965 when TG577 crashed at Abingdon with the loss of all 41 crew and para’s onmboard, the type was temporarily grounded. The cause of the crash was failure of the elevator hinge structure and aircraft had to be chacked and modified before return to service. many were scrapped.
Some did return to service, like the T5’s which continued on for another ten years.

Richard

I also see a DH 90 Dragonfly is up for sale in Trade-A-plane.

Dave

Yes it G-AEDT now in New Zealand. If only a lottery winner would buy it and donate it to the Shuttleworth Trust, wouldnt it look lovely next to the Comet racer.

Richard

I was in my garden cutting the grass wearing shorts(first time this year) when I heard a sound from long ago . Looked up and observed a Bell Sioux helicopter

Elf and safety could have a field day with this, no leg protection, no ear protection, distraction while using machinery, lack of recency on mower, lack of recency in shorts, an accident waiting to happen.

Richard

Hi Richard
Do you meen the front diagonal strut, that goes from the bottom of the front engine mounting plate to the top longeron ?, if so, the fitting is totally wrong for a Snipe “see photo’s attached of one for a Snipe”, I think that it may be a spar fitting, but am not 100% sure as it looks a little too narrow.
I have also attached photo’s of the diagonal struts, & an SL3a which is a common fitting to many later types of Sopwith aircraft.

Bob T.

Bob T
Yes thats the fitting, have a look at the second B@W picture in the Planetalk link, it is of a Camel, top of image just left of centre, where the diagonal brace meets the top longeron, thats the fitting I mean, it has a heart shaped hole in it as well as an arrow head shaped hole, just like the one in Greece.

Richard

This is the fitting at the point where the wooden diagonal brace meets the upper longeron. It certainly matches the one on a Snipe.

Coincidentally the Planetalk forum have some good pictures of Snipes in the undress http://forum.planetalk.net/viewtopic.php?t=10748

Richard