For questions about french aircraft you’re in good hands here :
http://www.aerostories.org/~aeroforums/
The Blackburn Roc was tested on floats, too.
Do you know “From Sea To Air”, by AE Tagg & RL Wheeler ?
Here’s some french stuff, mostly not well known, but that’s, what make
it much more interesting.
– elegant, as the Arsenal VG-70
– a look of brute force, as the SE.2415 Grognard
– or even “ugly” in the eyes of many onlookers, as the SNCAC NC.1071
And there’s hope to find pictures and infos about post-war french aviation
more easily in the future : http://frenchaviation.populus.org
.. and the I.Ae.33 Pulqui II in Argentina (photo from http://www.choiquehobbies.com.ar/revista/notas/ !
He was quite busy during these years !
But Willy Messerschmitt designed this vehicle after the war, typical for
his designs : Small, fast and a fighter canopy !
I wonder, what can be expected to be found there ? Ok, if an airplane crashes, it
mostly will do so with a relatively high speed, so that a lot of parts will penetrate
the soil. But a Zeppelin would hit the ground with a much lower speed, I think. L48
and L33 seemed to have burned still on the ground, that means, their gasbags were
at least partly filled with hydrogen at the moment of the crash. So probably most
debris was on the ground, not below.
But we’ll see, I hope for pictures in this forum !
I think, no Criquet ever carried a rear gun, but the cabin of some of
them had the provision for it, as you can see in the photo Papa Lima
posted yesterday. And most of the MS.502, with Salmson radials were
in fact re-engined MS.500. And the F-BDXM had this cabin, too,
and it was was a re-engined MS.505 (with a Jacobs).
But thinking logical may lead into the wrong direction here.To install a
feature like this cabin afterwards wouldn’t make much sense, I think, but
perhaps this aircraft should look more “war like”, for whatever reason …
That seems to be one of the MS.500, fitted with the Argus inline engine,
as the original Fieseler Storch and, yes, it has the cabin, I’m talking about.
But have you ever seen this cabin on a radial powered Criquet like that ?
(Photo from http://aerostories.free.fr/aventures/pepin/page7.html )
Not even a handful was built, never used operationally, relatively unknown
and, to be honest, not really a beauty !
Nevertheless, for me one of the most interesting post war transports,
the SNCAC NC.211 Cormoran.
Someone, who has a drawing/picture/artist’s impression, or something
like that of the pre-project, the even larger NC.210 ?
(picture from http://www.airwar.ru)
Types and sources …
1. SE.2410 Grognard , J.Cuny, Les Avions de Combat Francais”
2. N.2100 Norazur , J.-C. Fayer “Les Prototypes de l’Aviation Francais 1945 – 60”
3. NC. 211 Cormoran , P.Gaillard “Les Prototypes de Transport Francais”
4. NC.3021 Belphegor , J.-C. Fayer “Vols d’Essais”
5. M.D.80 ABC, http://www.dassault-aviation.com via Luc Berger
5. Maybe not so easy ?
4. Easy ?
3. … easy, too !
2. …easy …
And here are some more, you can have a guess, or just scroll down .
1. Easy !