there is an airplane that i´ve never seen before, someone knows what aircraft is it??
I’m not sure, but I believe that to be a Luftwaffe experiemental seaplane made in secret before the war.
That’s the Riverdance Dragon, who conquered ancient kingdoms with 500 Irish leprechauns dancing across it’s leather wings …
Looks like the Incom T-65
“X”-wing to the unitiated.
Edit:
Aha! so it isn’t the red x-wing after all.
Sorry, nope, still no idea.
That’s Delta’s new cheap seats program.
wheres Black Wolf when you need him?
I hate to be serious but I believe the aircraft is the German Dornier X seaplane which had 12 engines mounted in pairs on the top of the wing in a pusher puller configuration. Only one was built and it flew to the U.S. prior to WWII. It was stored in the Berlin Air Museum and destroyed by the bombing in WWII.
Richard
I don’t know what this particular aircraft is, but I know it is not the Dornier X.
Where did the picture come from???
T.Young [8-]
Weird thang innit? It’s got a definite German or even Russian look about it…
Those box shapes behind it actually appear to be 3 aft facing engines on long struts. I’m thinking Russian… Also the big FAT wing… It has a look of that great big bomber they had with the fighters slung underneath it… can’t remember the name of that either!
I’m going to say its Russian, likely a Beriev design.
I found this photo on the net and it seems to have very similar design philosophies behind it. You’ll notice the underwing floats are quite close to the fuselage compared to most amphibians (something I noticed in the photo you posted) and it has the rear facing engine on struts high over the wing.
I agree with mikeiw that the engines on the aircraft you posted are three rear facing ones, not six engines in front to back configuration.
I think you posted a scaled up version of this perhaps, just my guess.
Upnorth’s floatplane certainly seems to share a lot of design cues, doesn’t it? Those upwards sloping wings & a similar layout of the floats & engines, plus the similar shaped nose, even down to the seemingly vertically challenged cockpit… all seem to indicate a related design or designer…
don’t know what that is…it big though…
thanks guys, you´re very helpfull, i have to agree thats seens to be rusian, as Kitbashed explained, that aircraft in the pic that Kitbashed posted , looks the “young bro.”
Thanks anyway, but if you guys find out the real id from that “Riverdance Dragon ,lol”, please
tell it!
It doesn’t seem to be a Beriev design after all. I checked their history at Beriev.com (sometimes it’s that easy, usually not [:D]), and they started making aircraft in 1932. The quality of the picture would suggest it’s been taken before 1930 (guessing a bit here), and the bow of the thing makes me want to say Sikorsky. Hmm… I think we have a quiz without Blackwolf starting one [%-)]. Well, maybe he could solve it for us then?[:D] I’ll have a look to see what I can find.
Couldn’t it be a french plane, a latecoere or something.
Have a look at this one folks:
http://www.flyingboats.ca/FlyingBoats-old/german/German1928Rohrbach-RoX-Romar.jpg
Apart from the tail layout (very strange on our mystery ship), there seem to be a lot of similarities between it and the Rohrbach Ro-X plane I found. It’s also from the right period and has a similar bow, inboard placed floats and three pusher engines. It’s not the same plane though (tail??). Very little info available on this one.
Bingo:
http://www.histaviation.com/Rohrbach.html
A little more info: Rohrbach had factories in Berlin and Copenhagen. The aircraft they constructed were of all-metal construction and included land-based aircraft.
Three of the Rohrbach Romar (Ro-X) planes were initially built to try to cover the atlantic with 12 passengers. In the end, speed and range turned out to be insufficient so the planes were tested in the Baltic instead. Here, two of the aircraft crashed during landing, and no further orders materialized. Interestingly, a fourth Romar was apparently built (factory number 63), named a Romar II. Couldn’t find any info on that one. Maybe it had a different tail, or the “tail” in the picture is actually a frame/scaffolding structure or someting? Well, that’s as close as I can get at an answer.
I’m pretty sure that I can’t see the tail in the pic. It’s obscured by all the people. Whatever that is in the background, either doesn’t seem to be attached, or if it is attached, would seem to be in the wrong place in relation to the rest of the plane.
Those Rohrbach noses & wing profiles are just too close to be a coincidence…
I agree Mike. Some eager but misinformed lab technician must have burned in the wrong part of the picture, thereby highlighting a beam or something, and hiding the tail. This technique (to emphasize the subject of technical pictures) was very popular in the early years of photography (which also gave a way its age). I think we have a winner [^]. Obrigado for the riddle Diogo[:D].
That horizontal line could actually be a crane that runs along the girders of the roof. I noticed it has bulges along its length, which could be motors & winch attachment points.
so its a Rohrbach… good! so there is any kit for that plane?