Hi,
This is a Spad A-series. The two curved bars sustaining the front machine-gun are present on the A2 and A4, but they have no rear-firing gun. So from the descriptions I have, I think that this is the A3, but I have no photographic evidence to confirm this.
Adrien
Yes it is, from the SDASM archive:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/4590562246/in/photostream/
Over to you again!
Adrien
Maybe? Actually I don’t know where the picture was taken.
Hi,
I would say this is an AEG G.IV in captured markings.
Adrien
Is there a list somewhere with previous Wot planes ?
Hi,
This is it, over to you!
Adrien
I think that the DH.71 lookalike is the Raab-Katzenstein RK-25, two of which participated in the 1929 European Challenge.
Adrien
(Deleted: Sorry I posted by mistake without noticing that there was a full page of posts after the fake Temco.)
That’s it.
Over to you!
Hi Tim,
Is this the Raab-Katzenstein RK-26 Tigerschwalbe ?
Adrien
Yes, this is the one. Picture is an extract of the fascinating book “Stalinskiy marshrut Chkalova i Levanevskogo”
http://www.amazon.com/Stalinskiy-Levanevskogo-tragediya-polyarnyh-pereletov/dp/5699580689
I can’t read the text, but there are plenty of rare images and diagrams.
Adrien
Near miss: the aircraft shown in the picture belongs to the same family, but was made for high altitude research with a pressurised cabin. It was the first of a series of high-altitude aircraft, which culminated with stratospheric long-range reconnaissance models with defensive armament.
I’ll give the answer tomorrow if there is no taker in the meantime.
Adrien