Simviation Forum - Guess a plane part 3

Feb 4^th, 2005 at 5:57am

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This one is a bit harder (no airliners.net to help)

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Reply #1 - Feb 4^th, 2005 at 6:04am

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You're learning Theis. I've enjoyed your efforts so far as you've chosen some interesting types. Wink

I have no idea what this is so I'm going to take a wild guess. Sopwith Bat.

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Reply #2 - Feb 4^th, 2005 at 6:18am

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I second that... definitely not a Curtiss; wrong nose shape. Sopwith.

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Reply #3 - Feb 4^th, 2005 at 8:58am

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nope not sopwith
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Reply #4 - Feb 4^th, 2005 at 9:57am

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The floatplane is at the Danish Aviation Museum at Elsinore, and is probably one of the "hand built floatplanes", which leads me to believe that it's a one-off, another proof of Danish aviation ingenuity...

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Reply #5 - Feb 4^th, 2005 at 10:00am

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Nope felix, its a french build plane

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Reply #6 - Feb 4^th, 2005 at 10:08am

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Something from the factory of Mr Benoist?

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Reply #7 - Feb 4^th, 2005 at 10:45am

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nope
its intials is D.L. ,from france

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Reply #8 - Feb 4^th, 2005 at 12:05pm

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Donnet-Leveque Hydroaeroplane?

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Reply #9 - Feb 4^th, 2005 at 12:19pm

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Donnet-Leveque Hydroaeroplane?

I'm going to have to agree. It's either from 1912 or 1913.

Found this page, it's got some interesting photos.
http://www.wwi-models.org/Photos/Fre/DonnetLeveque/

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Reply #10 - Feb 4^th, 2005 at 12:20pm

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Correct!

Maagen 2 was used in RDAF as recon and school plane
for private donations (43.000DKR) that was used to buy two french flying boats. in 1913 they got the name "maagen" and "ternen" and was used in training for pilots in the danish marines. in sep. 1914 there were renamed to "maagen 1" and "maagen 2". "maagen 1" was destroyed in a crash in 1914 and "maagen 2" crashed in sep.1915. after WW2 it was rebuild and is now on Teknisk museum (Tecnical Museum) in helsingor,Denmark

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Reply #11 - Feb 4^th, 2005 at 1:51pm

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I have no idea what this is so I'm going to take a wild guess. Sopwith Bat.

Please Hagar, you know what a Sopwith Bat looks like...

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Reply #12 - Feb 4^th, 2005 at 4:47pm

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Please Hagar, you know what a Sopwith Bat looks like...

Ah yes. Thanks Woody. My mistake. I told told you it was a wild guess. Wink

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Reply #13 - Feb 4^th, 2005 at 5:22pm

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A Bat...

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I told told you it was a wild guess. Wink

Literally.... Grin

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Reply #14 - Feb 5^th, 2005 at 3:02am

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heres the original picture
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Reply #15 - Feb 5^th, 2005 at 2:59pm

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Boy, was I way off! Obviously I don't know squat about European aviation history (it's hard for us Americans, sometimes, to shake off this belief that we invented everything from fire onwards, but I'm trying)... thanks for enlightening me.

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