It is the LNB-11, but I take no credit for it. I found the photo!
“En vol d’essai à Cahors en 1951. Le Docteur Barret de Nazaris est aux commandes. Cette machine avait été construite par Raymond Bourdin (le “B” de LNB)”
Avion: I think I should leave it to you to decide if wout or fanavion should get the glory.
A Pou is a Pou is a Pou!
Laurence
PS: looks as if the tailwheel picked up part of the farmer’s haystack.
Mignet, but which? HM-310 perhaps
Laurence
Quote cthornburg:
avion ancien if not 2010 what other year might I choose?
Latest Romanian population (2007) 21.5 million.
Laurence
Sorry, I had missed that sad news.
Maybe Elliot Smock (Whitley Project) can help with a contact. We corresponded about a Whitley turret cupola they used to have there. His reply was:
Hi Laurence – thanks to the heads up you provided I met with members of the museum and they have very kindly allowed me to borrow one of the panels needed to have a new set made. This will allow us to get the best possible match, rather than making a pattern which with the best will in the world would not be as accurate. Thanks very much once again for your help Laurence – it is greatly appreciated. Eric Cox was the driving force behind this in the museum and he really bent over backwards to help me. Doug Pike also did a grand job removing the panel without breaking it – a feat not to be underestimated!
Laurence
Santé, Avion!
and it was the last post on page 100 too.
Laurence
shed man, maker of the Whirlwind replica at Fenland used to be around here.
You could try him.
Laurence
Belgium then?
Laurence
But from a country of 13 million population …
Laurence
Looks a bit like a Fokker D21, but the u/c seems retractable…
D22 or D24, but I don’t think they were built.
Sorry, I see that Pagen already suggested this!!!
Laurence
Strange. I can’t find a European country with a population of 13 million (2002 figures).
Laurence
The first Varivol (V-1) was a rather odd-looking biplane, that flew and crashed in 1936. The wing, which was basically a rigid leading edge with an extendable surface behind it, was further tested in a wind tunnel and married to a Caudron fuselage (V-6E). It never flew and was rescued years later and is now in the museum at Angers.
http://www.musee-aviation-angers.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=44:gerin-v-6e-varivol&catid=26&Itemid=33
Laurence
Hey, Avion: this is for you:
Le système suisse de classification vise à être une simplification du turc.
So the Swiss system is a simplification of the Turkish one! We were right about the 3 axles out of 7:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_des_locomotives
That’ll teach you to mix steam locomotion with aeroplanes! This is not the Wot Train thread.
Laurence
It’s not unfortuante at all. I got the right country but he got the right plane.
I presume too that it means 3 driving wheels out of 7 total.
Laurence
Or 3/7 in Switzerland!
Is this an Irbitis design from Latvia? Maybe the I.16.
Laurence
I wouldn’t want you to get castigated. It must be very unpleasant. I think you are right about the no-fly comment for the amazing Varivol.
Yes please: clues!
Laurence