Breguet's challenge #323

[sobrien]

Hopefully I'm doing this right.

Sean
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r249/sobrien_album/mw.jpg

[Breguet]

You're doing just fine. :D

[Varese2002]

This is one of the three Wright-Martin R serials A288-A290 which were acquired by the U.S.Navy in 1917. Power was the Hall-Scott A-5A engine of 150 hp.

But ........... the U.S.Navy was not the prime user of this machine, that was the Dutch Navy, who ordered 8 of them in 1916, which arrived on 4 March 1917 in Surabaya (Dutch East Indies - now Indonesia). Floats were quickly left alone and an undercarriage was fitted. I have not checked it exactly, but the machines had difficulty coming out of the water in the tropical atmosphere. Machines at least flew till november 1918.

Two extra machines of the Wright-Martin R were ordered by the Dutch Navy in Holland (MLD - Marine Luchtvaart Dienst).

Ordering machines was possible as US was not at war in 1916 :)

Kees


By the way, the Wright-Martin R figured in Challenge #42, which had the landplane version of the Wright-Martin R with motorcycle http://www.earlyaviator.com/br.challenge/aircraft/042_Wright-Martin.R.jpg

[sobrien]

Kees,
That is correct sir. Not sure how to tally up the points, but you're the winner.

Sean

[Froggy]

Ok Sean I put the score for 323 challenge

Scores at the End of Challenge # 323

59.9 Varese2002

43.7 Dave_Kent
30.8 Rbailey
13.8 YavorD
13.3 Rod Filan
8.8 Cruze
7.4 JohnMacG
7.7 Dan-San
7.6 trp81
7.5 Froggy
7.0 Breguet
6.7 EdStevens
6.1 joegertler
6.0 Eric Goedkoop
5.6 ercoupepilot
5.5 Patrick
5.4 Colin A. Owers
5.3 Der Grüne Flieger
5.2 Gilles
5.1 bshatzer
5.0 Tom L
5.0 FOKKERJ Feuchtwanger
4.7 dpolglaze
4.4 Ross Moorhouse
4.3 edmondthieffry
4.0 greenknight
3.5 Doc
2.7 Berman
2.0 Rickenbaron
1.6 sergio_vitalio
1.5 Kilian
1.5 Gregoire
1.2 Ransom E. Olds
1.1 Crankcase
1 austin08
1 Cliff
1 cubsfan4life
1 Peter Zambori
1 rammjaeger
1 Cigogne
1 Mike Westorp
1 sobrien
.8 Machinbird
.6 Sreiko
.5 Martin Irvine
.4 Vilkata
.4 tbstreet
.3 albapfalzd3
.2 Paul_J._Fishe

Look at precedent breguet's challenge here:Aeroplanes 1914 - 1918* -* Breguet's Aircraft Challenge* -- (http://www.earlyaviator.com/br.challenge/)

Happy to see you are here again Kees :)

Cordialement
Bruno

[Varese2002]

Thanks Froggy, I do my best to come back in shape again. I think I can place another interesting one within an hour. ;)

Kees