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13 July 2007, 07:22 AM
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Breguet's Aircraft Challenge # 222
The scores after challenge # 221 are:
43.0 Varese2002 25.8 Dave_Kent 16.9 Rbailey 10.0 Rod Filan 8.3 YavorD 7.4 JohnMacG 7.0 Breguet 6.6 Cruze 6.1 joegertler 6.0 Eric Goedkoop 5.6 ercoupepilot 5.5 EdStevens 5.4 Colin A. Owers 5.1 bshatzer 5.0 Patrick 4.8 Der Grune Flieger 4.4 Ross Moorhouse 4.3 edmondthieffry 4.2 Gilles 4.0 greenknight 3.7 dpolglaze 3 Tom L 2.7 Berman 2.6 FOKKERJ Feuchtwanger 1.5 Kilian 1.2 Ransom E. Olds 1 rammjaeger 1 Rickenbaron 1 Peter Zambori 1 Gregoire 1 Doc 1 cubsfan4life 1 austin08 1 Cliff .8 Machinbird .6 Crankcase .4 Vilkata .2 Paul_J._Fisher Previous challenges are at: Aeroplanes 1914 - 1918 -- Breguet's Aircraft Challenge™ That's it you guys--we've run out of airplanes. Now unless someone comes up with the individual designation of this non-rigid, to gain the full point I might have to accept the name of the constructor only. Aerial Achievement medal with nut cluster will be awarded for anything above and beyond the call of duty. Good luck balloon busters! 
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13 July 2007, 11:09 AM
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Two engine nacelles, one on each side of the gondola, housing 9 cylinder Salmson Z water cooled radial engines, generating a total of 494 HP
269 feet long, 49 feet wide, gas capacity 321,412 cubic feet. Purchased by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in 1920, for establishing airship service between Detroit and Akron, OH. Don't know if it ever did see that service. Dan |
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13 July 2007, 05:42 PM
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WTG Dan. Your answer has passed muster and you are now within striking distance of your fifth kill.
Another "what might have been" of early American lighter-than-air. However, a Chalais-Meudon CM-5 motor and nacelle are on display at the New England Air Museum in Connecticut to remind us. It is the oldest major European LTA artifact in the United States. I haven't seen anything that suggests the CM-5 was ever re-inflated--at Wingfoot Lake or elsewhere in the US--but, lets hear what the Goodyear Co. had to say about it: "This immense French built Chalais-Meudon dirigible has just been purchased from the United States Government by The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio, for establishment of America's first inter-city airship line. The big ship will start either in August or September making daily round trips between Akron and Detroit, carrying mail and express. It is stated that passenger service may be attempted later. The dirigible is expected to reach New York from France the latter part of May and will be shipped immediately to Akron to be inflated. The French dirigible is twice as large as any airship assembled in Akron. It has a capacity of 320,000 cubic feet and is 260 feet long. It has a crew of four men and is capable of accommodating thirty passengers. Twin motors of 250 horse power each will produce a maximum speed of about 50 miles an hour. The cabin is 45 feet long. This ship was built for the United States Government for use in the war but was completed too late for service at the front. While the flights between Akron and Detroit - 150 miles each way - will be of an experimental nature to prove the practicability of inter-city airship travel, they nevertheless will mark the beginning of an extensive dirigible program in America, and Akron will become the center of activities in the lighter-than-air craft field. Goodyear has moved its aeronautic headquarters to the Wingfoot Lake air station near Akron, which it recently purchased from the Government, and will use it as the Akron landing place for the dirigible. At Detroit a mooring tower will be erected to anchor the ship. The ship will make the round trip between Akron and Detroit in about eight hours." Ralphe Burley Goodyear News Service May 17, 1920 The scores after challenge # 222 are: 43.0 Varese2002 25.8 Dave_Kent 16.9 Rbailey 10.0 Rod Filan 8.3 YavorD 7.4 JohnMacG 7.0 Breguet 6.6 Cruze 6.1 joegertler 6.0 Eric Goedkoop 5.6 ercoupepilot 5.5 EdStevens 5.4 Colin A. Owers 5.1 bshatzer 5.0 Patrick 4.8 Der Grune Flieger 4.4 Ross Moorhouse 4.3 edmondthieffry 4.2 Gilles 4.0 greenknight 4.7 dpolglaze 3 Tom L 2.7 Berman 2.6 FOKKERJ Feuchtwanger 1.5 Kilian 1.2 Ransom E. Olds 1 rammjaeger 1 Rickenbaron 1 Peter Zambori 1 Gregoire 1 Doc 1 cubsfan4life 1 austin08 1 Cliff .8 Machinbird .6 Crankcase .4 Vilkata .2 Paul_J._Fisher Previous challenges are at: Aeroplanes 1914 - 1918 -- Breguet's Aircraft Challenge™
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