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19 July 2007, 04:20 PM
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Breguet's Crash File #78
For full credit, be specific.
Scores at the end of round #77 are: 10.7 Rbailey 07.05 YavorD 06.5 Breguet 06.4 Gregvan 05.5 Fokkerj Feuchtwanger 04.5 Gilles 04.0 Edmond 04.0 Eric 04.0 Ross 02.0 Dan_San 02.0 Expositor 02.0 Patrick 02.0 Rod Filan 01.8 Tom L 01.3 Varese2002 01.0 Berman 01.0 Cruze 01.0 ONEALM 01.0 PaulForster 01.0 Pvernon 01.0 Troy Raines 00.75 Der Grüne Flieger 00.2 Crankcase |
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20 July 2007, 08:42 PM
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This is the specially built Vimy for Alcock and Whitten-Brown's Atlantic flight.
It had two 360hp Rolls Royce Eagle VIII engines, additional fuel tanks, the nose cockp[it was faired over and an enlarged turtle deck fairing was extended over the fuel tanks. At 8.40 am (GMT) on the 15th June 1919 it landed in Derry-gimla Bog, Clifden, damaging the lower wings and forepart of the fuselage. It was repaired and as Colin says was presented to the Science Museum, South Kensington in 1919 where it can still be seen. The other long distance Vimy wound up at Adelaide's (South Australia) airport aftern completing the England to Australia flight (that aircraft was F8630 and given the civil registration of G-EAOU interpretated as "God 'elp all of us". |
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22 July 2007, 04:12 PM
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It is indeed the Alcock and Brown machine on its nose in an Irish bog after crossing the Atlantic.
I will give .5 to Expositor for identifying the type, and .4 to Brequet for the specifics. Colin obviously knew what it was. but didn't say so. Scores at the end of round #78 are: 10.7 Rbailey 07.05 YavorD 06.9 Breguet 06.4 Gregvan 05.5 Fokkerj Feuchtwanger 04.5 Gilles 04.0 Edmond 04.0 Eric 04.0 Ross 02.5Expositor 02.0 Dan_San 02.0 Patrick 02.0 Rod Filan 01.8 Tom L 01.3 Varese2002 01.0 Berman 01.0 Cruze 01.0 ONEALM 01.0 PaulForster 01.0 Pvernon 01.0 Troy Raines 00.75 Der Grüne Flieger 00.2 Crankcase 00.1 Colin A Owers |
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