Breguet's ID Challenge #600

Froggy · 1 July 2009, 09:58 AM

Bonjour à tous

May be a Vickers E.F.B.2 (same rudder shape) like this one ?

Vickers E.F.B.2 - fighter

Cordialement
Bruno

Varese2002 · 1 July 2009, 11:16 AM

Given the appearance of part 600-c I get the impression this is a machine with swept back wings, tailless. I think we are looking at one of the English Dunne models or its US affiliate (Burgess-Dunne) or its French affiliate (Nieuport-Dunne).

Cheers

Kees

Breguet · 1 July 2009, 03:04 PM

Afraid not Varese and Froggy. Here is piece #13 (thought it won't help in identification of the primary featured aircraft):

Rbailey · 1 July 2009, 05:48 PM

Breguet - What do you mean by "primary featured"? Is there a secondary machine in there somewhere? Is anything in the picture part of the machine from which the picture was taken?

Breguet · 1 July 2009, 06:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rbailey

Breguet - What do you mean by "primary featured"? Is there a secondary machine in there somewhere? Is anything in the picture part of the machine from which the picture was taken?

Yes. As AROTH noted this is an air to air shot and some of the pieces show part of the machine from which the picture was taken. AROTH wanted an extra point if he could identify it, I said yes but could luck with that one 1

Rbailey · 1 July 2009, 07:20 PM

The front end and the tail look like an Henri Farman H.F. 27. When you ruled out Farman, did that include HF and MF as well as F types? If so, could it be a Russian version identified by some Russian designation? Dux built them, for example.

Breguet · 1 July 2009, 08:16 PM

Yes all Farmans as well as Russian versions.

Breguet · 2 July 2009, 03:17 AM

I probably shouldn't say this

but piece 14 shows you a piece of wing

Dave_Kent · 2 July 2009, 12:21 PM

Are we certain that we’re looking at a landplane?

The round shapes beneath the fuselage make me think they are wheels, but could they be the rounded ends of floats?

If so, machines like the Wight Navyplane and one of the Friedrichtshafen floatplanes, both used I think, are the sort of thing we might be looking for.

I will defer to younger / better eyes.

Dave

Froggy · 2 July 2009, 12:48 PM

Bonsoir à tous

Just a question ....Where is the interest of this challenge in the form of a jigsaw if no one can guess it even when all the pieces are given?

Cordialement
Bruno