Who / What / Where Game Part 2 - Page 411

Catfish · 12-03-23, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

WWI era?

No.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ostfriese

Are the blades of the propeller (lower right side) really that small, or was the picture just taken with the blades at an odd angle?

Odd angle, two bladed and "normal" diameter

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

a racing seaplane?

Not seaplane racing

Jimbuna · 12-03-23, 11:58 AM

Pre WWI?

Catfish · 12-03-23, 12:06 PM

Shortly after ww1

Jimbuna · 12-03-23, 12:17 PM

German?

Aktungbby · 12-03-23, 12:46 PM

monoplane?

Catfish · 12-03-23, 01:28 PM

@Jim: Not german

@Aktung: Intended to be a monoplane, then then it was changed

Aktungbby · 12-03-23, 07:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Catfish

@Aktung: Intended to be a monoplane, then it was changed

WELL

The Curtiss model 22

with additional lower wing gets you the 'Texas wildcat in biplane confiuration"

The dead-giveaway key to it imho was the exhaust pipes wth 12 outlets ie: the Powerplant: Curtiss C-12 liquid-cooled V-12 engine, 435 hp (324 kW) the ol' Red Baron in me still prefers the tri-plane version though!

https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/thread...x-racer.47434/

Catfish · 12-04-23, 07:32 AM

^ this is of course the one, 'Cox' Curtiss built for the Gordon Bennett race, but never succeeded depite breaking some speed records. It was ok with the original monoplane wing version, but the untested racing wing to be exchanged in France made it highly unstable.
So a second lower wing was added for stability but it only led to a crash while landing.

Over to Aktung

Aktungbby · 12-04-23, 12:28 PM

What's this?:

Jimbuna · 12-04-23, 01:00 PM

Musket?

Aktungbby · 12-04-23, 03:36 PM

nope-but it is decidedly a 'smoothbore'.

Jimbuna · 12-05-23, 06:05 AM

So not a Brown Bess?

Aktungbby · 12-05-23, 10:39 AM

much smaller; and percussion, not flint.

Catfish · 12-05-23, 03:28 PM

@Aktung so you want to smoothly bore us with those antique guns ..
american?

Aktungbby · 12-05-23, 03:49 PM

Quit trying to riffle me with your plays on words!

It is is not 'Merikan though Cochise, Mangas Colorados, and Geronimo would have loved one:if only to keep the peace in the wikiup!

12-03-23, 11:58 AM	#6152
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,938 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Pre WWI? __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

12-03-23, 12:06 PM	#6153
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,802 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	Shortly after ww1 __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

12-03-23, 12:17 PM	#6154
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,938 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	German? __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

12-03-23, 12:46 PM	#6155
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,069 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	monoplane? __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

12-03-23, 01:28 PM	#6156
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,802 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	@Jim: Not german @Aktung: Intended to be a monoplane, then then it was changed __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

12-04-23, 07:32 AM	#6158
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,802 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	^ this is of course the one, 'Cox' Curtiss built for the Gordon Bennett race, but never succeeded depite breaking some speed records. It was ok with the original monoplane wing version, but the untested racing wing to be exchanged in France made it highly unstable. So a second lower wing was added for stability but it only led to a crash while landing. Over to Aktung __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

12-04-23, 12:28 PM	#6159
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,069 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	What's this?: __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

12-04-23, 01:00 PM	#6160
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,938 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Musket? __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

12-04-23, 03:36 PM	#6161
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,069 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	nope-but it is decidedly a 'smoothbore'. __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

12-05-23, 06:05 AM	#6162
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,938 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	So not a Brown Bess? __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

12-05-23, 10:39 AM	#6163
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,069 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	much smaller; and percussion, not flint. __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

12-05-23, 03:28 PM	#6164
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,802 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	@Aktung so you want to smoothly bore us with those antique guns .. american? __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

12-05-23, 03:49 PM	#6165
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,069 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Quit trying to riffle me with your plays on words! It is is not 'Merikan though Cochise, Mangas Colorados, and Geronimo would have loved one:if only to keep the peace in the wikiup! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!