Фотографии
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Savoia Marchetti SM.55 "Santa Maria" preparing to dock.
Самолёты на фотографии: Savoia-Marchetti / SIAI S.55 - Италия - 1924
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Регистрационный номер: NX206 Fokker C-2 NX-206 "America" standing on the ramp built to assist the take-off with the additional fuel load required for the Atlantic crossing attempt.
16.4.27 Fokker 'America', with A.Fokker and Commander Byrd on board, crashed at Hackensack, NJ.
Fokker C-2 "America" NX-206 was on test flight for Byrd's TransAtlantic attempt. According to Byrd, Fokker panicked, but Fokker blamed the accident on a control cable jamming and preventing the tail being lowered. On landing the aircraft nosed over. After repair, NX-206 flew the Atlantic 29 - 30.6.27, landing in the sea off the French coast.
Though flown by Fokker and with Byrd on board, it was Byrd's pilot Floyd Bennett who was the main casualty, being seriously injured in this accident. Byrd piloted the Atlantic crossing, the "landing" being off the coast at Versur-Mer, Normandy.Самолёты на фотографии: Fokker F.VII / C-2 / F.XIV - Нидерланды - 1924
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Регистрационный номер: NX703 6.9.27 Fokker 'Old Glory', call sign WRHP, crashed in North Atlantic on flight from Old Orchard to Rome.
"Old Glory" was Fokker F.VIIa NX-703 (c/n ?) which crashed off Newfoundland. 'WRHP' sounds like a commercial radio call sign - perhaps at Old Orchard?
It seems that "Old Glory" was known at the time as the William Randolph Hearst Plane - this immediately explains the call-sign 'WRHP'. It was a Jupiter-engined F.VIIa with c/n 501 and is shown in the photograph passing over the S.S. Leviathan during its final test flight on 2.9.27 in preparation for the New York - Rome attempt.Самолёты на фотографии: Fokker F.VII / C-2 / F.XIV - Нидерланды - 1924
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The Focke-Wulf Ente on a test flight at Bremen. The name 'ente' means 'duck' and was of course an apt choice for an aircraft of canard wing layout.
29.9.27 Focke-Wulf Ente crashed at Bremen. Wulf killed.
Wulf was demonstrating single-engined flying at Bremen when a control rod broke and the F19 Ente spun in.
The Focke-Wulf Ente first flew only on 2.9.27. thus the photograph must be dated September 1927 and shows the F.19 landing at Bremen. In the crash which killed Wulf the fuselage and cockpit were reduced to splinters. A second Ente, D-1960 was built later.Самолёты на фотографии: Focke-Wulf F 19 Ente - Германия - 1927