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franzkait · 7 February 2006, 12:00 AM

for what aercraft are this wings ?

StephenLawson · 7 February 2006, 10:30 AM

I am willing to say Austro-Hungarian?

DennisK · 7 February 2006, 11:57 AM

Is it an austrian Albatros B.I?

franzkait · 8 February 2006, 02:46 AM

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StephenLawson · 8 February 2006, 09:42 AM

Ah yes the scalloped wings of the Ansaldo company. Very nice.

franzkait · 8 February 2006, 10:58 AM

Stephen, can you give some info about this aircraft ? SVA-10

StephenLawson · 9 February 2006, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by franzkait

Stephen, can you give some info about this aircraft ? SVA-10

What I have is that the Savoia-Verduzio-Ansaldo (SVA) excelled in the bomber-recon aircraft and that was manifested in the late war two seater design of the SVA 9 & 10. Testing began in April - May 1918. They were nearly identical to the SVA 5 except in over-all height. They were actually closer to the earlier type 4 in dimesensions. The type 9 was the trainer version with dual controls. The SVA 10 was a photo-reconnaissance aircraft with the observer behind the pilot. Typically they were armed with rear cockpit Lewis gun on a flexible half ring mount and some examples had radio transceivers. Evidently more of the type 9 were built. Both seemed to have the 200hp SPA 6a and some type 10 had the Isotta - Fraschini. The type 5 used the 270hp Isotta - Fraschini V6 . When the type 10 prototype crashed a modified type 5 was used in its place, (SVA 12736.) This machine is or was in the Vittoriale degli Italiani museum.

See ; Combat Profiles of WWI Combat Planes by Apostolo and Bignozzi, Cresent pub. Pp. 193 - 200.

franzkait · 9 February 2006, 04:56 PM

the foto what shows the wing production, is from Kaunas in Lithuania.

duedicoppe · 10 February 2006, 02:29 PM

The SVA in which d'Annunzio flew over Vienna is still in the "Vittoriale".
You can see her at:
http://www.fly-net.org/gavs/sva1.html

http://images.google.it/imgres?imgur...lr%3D%26sa%3DG

(Gosh!) and

http://images.google.it/imgres?imgurl=http://www.kendal.it/dannunzio/eroe/!images/tmb_cimel.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.kendal.it/dannunzio/eroe/vienna_sva.shtml&h=92&w=120&sz=4&tbnid=aCRDsDVgHMQ BMM:&tbnh=63&tbnw=83&hl=it&start=7&prev=/images%3Fq%3DSva%2Bvittoriale%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3D it%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG

(Gosh again!)

All the best

Paolo