Recently signed up on this forum and never expected that this would be my first post! Saw this thread earlier and thought I would take a look at the IWM site. Have to say that I’ve just spent the past hour looking at it and have abandoned it in frustration. My great uncle, John Clifford Browne, who went over the top on the first day of the Somme, and survived that only to die some weeks later, is there thanks to his medal card, upon which the whole site is populated. I have a whole lot that I could add about him (dates, family, home, etc), but the site is not set up to permit anyone to just add stuff easily – it’s set up to ‘buy’ information from a lesser known genealogical group. So to add his date of birth or death I’ve first got to go and pay to get access to his birth and death records – I can’t just add it! This really is a poor show by IWM where a commercial enterprise has hijacked what should be an amazing way of permanently recording the existence and experiences of these soldiers, for all to add to and grow. I’m very disappointed.

What’s happening with the Fiat CR.42? Things seem to have gone very quiet there, when it looked almost ready for completion a while back?

Westland Wapiti maybe? An oddity that differs from all DH9/9A pictures that I can find (and the Wapiti for that matter) is the straight front and cut down side to the front cockpit. Certainly the DH9 two-seater trainer in the Johannesburg military museum does not have cockpits like this, or the sloped-down decking from rear to front cockpit – though it was apparently a local modification to make it a two-seater trainer.

Nope – I’m wrong – front cockpit shape does fit the DH9A, as per the RAF museum example. So DH9A seems the best bet!

The flag on the 1960 view is correct if the flag pole is to the right – i.e. the thought process is that it is ‘flying’ from the leading edge of the fin. The test would be to see how it was painted on the other side. The new paint work represents the flag pole being on the left – i.e. the ‘standard’ view when no flag pole is considered.

Had it with just one thread. Seemed to crop at page 13 after I knew I had seen subsequent pages the previous day. No other threads that I’ve noticed however.

Charles Dumont is no relation to Alberto Santos-Dumont, and appears to be a little known (at least in the English speaking world) French WW1 aviator who spent a short time building aircraft post-WW1. Wikipedia gives a very little: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dumont_(pilote). As this says he built a Pou-du-Ciel, I would take a guess that this might be a version of another Henri Mignet design – an HM 8 Avionette, but with longer legs. This is a late 1920’s design – but not 1919.

Can’t find a picture, but I seem to recall an Aero Ae-45 dressed up as a Heinkel.