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The airplane- One of my personal favorites, well known but hardly legendary.
Well, at least you care enough to try.
MvR was still a calvalry officer when this one was in service, he could have possibly flown one while training, but not that I know of.
Well, at least you care enough to try.
MvR was still a calvalry officer when this one was in service, he could have possibly flown one while training, but not that I know of.
Eh, it's just all the cartoons and the Red Baron with a plane with Maltese Crosses on the wings...
Shit, ask me three years ago when I was into WWII aircraft, and I might've known...
I'm going to go search around for info, just because I'm so intrigued by the plane's rediculous design.
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A search of Google with the keywords "Twin Boom" "German Aircraft" +WW1 brought up this http://www.ku.edu/~kansite/WWI-L/2001/07/msg00198.html
so I'm guessing that the plane is the AGO C1 as the gentleman says, other than that I haven't a clue, because it's a WW1 plane and the only one of those i know is the Sopwith Camel.
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DPDarkPrimus wrote:Shit, ask me three years ago when I was into WWII aircraft, and I might've known...
I'm going to go search around for info, just because I'm so intrigued by the plane's rediculous design.
Considering it's WW1 or eariler design, I doubt that would help.
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I'd say early WW1, 1915 or so. It looks fighter-sized, designed before interrupter gear was designed. Kinda like that British twin-boom fighter whose name I don't remember.
Well it shows in none of my WW1 aircraft books, and doesn't appear to be armed. I suspect it may be a prewar machine.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
It's the Ago C II, a recon plane from 1915. The front wheels are covered by the wings in the current position, the plane is a 4-wheeler, and is tail sitting. (much like the French Voisin series).
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Sea Skimmer wrote:Well it shows in none of my WW1 aircraft books, and doesn't appear to be armed. I suspect it may be a prewar machine.
You must have some reasonably superficial books. What titles, may I ask?
I dont feel like listing five long titles. Superficial however does not discribe them. There where a few hundred designs built in WW1 after all.
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Frank Hipper wrote:Fair enough. Jane's Fighting Aircraft of WWI omits this one, considering how in depth it is, it's pretty amazing it isn't in there.
What? Weird... And it does include reconnaissance aircraft, right?
I've used Rand McNally's "Encyclopedia of Military Aircraft", revised edition, by Enzo Angelucci, it's rare to find it, but at least it does have this plane!
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Frank Hipper wrote:Fair enough. Jane's Fighting Aircraft of WWI omits this one, considering how in depth it is, it's pretty amazing it isn't in there.
What? Weird... And it does include reconnaissance aircraft, right?
I've used Rand McNally's "Encyclopedia of Military Aircraft", revised edition, by Enzo Angelucci, it's rare to find it, but at least it does have this plane!
I love that book. They've just re-released it, too.
Frank Hipper wrote:[...]
I've used Rand McNally's "Encyclopedia of Military Aircraft", revised edition, by Enzo Angelucci, it's rare to find it, but at least it does have this plane!
I love that book. They've just re-released it, too.[/quote]
Nice!
It's good to see such a fine source of information being kept in print.
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