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Captured British planes


Cnock

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BE2e of 34 Sqn

Was forced to land on 29/8/1916 during storm.

2lt Cairns and 2Lt Tulloch were made prisoner of war.

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SE5a 84 Sqn

Lt McCANN made pow NW Plessier

Post nr. 2 happened 12/4/1918

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SE5a 84 Sqn, downed 20/10/1917 near Ypres.

Pilot 2Lt. Watts pow.

In the rear another captured plane, Airco DH5

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Anyone knows more about this Sopwith Camel?

Thank You.

Cnock

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Who knows the story behind this captured Nieuport,

Regards,

Cnock

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Who knows the story behind this captured Nieuport,

Cnock

Thanks very much for posting the photographs. The Nieuport 17 is Italian, serial Ni 3625, and was used by the 81a Squadrigila. The Austro-Hungarians found it at Campoformido aerodrome when they advanced after the Caporetto offensive in late 1917. Ni 3625 received the Austro-Hungarian serial number 00.59.

I hope this is useful.

Gareth

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Gareth,

Thank You very much for the information,

Regards,

Cnock

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Morane LA - 1 Sqn

Tournai (Belgium) 10/1/1916

2Lt. McEwan and 2Lt. Adams pow

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Good Evening

Is the 84Sqn SE sporting the remains of a four bladed prop and if so was this normal for an SE5a?

Regards

Adam

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Is the 84Sqn SE sporting the remains of a four bladed prop and if so was this normal for an SE5a?

Adam

B4876 does have a 4 blade propeller. Most SE 5as were fitted with two blade propellers, but not all. The aeroplane in question was built by The Royal Aircraft Factory in batch B4851 to B4900, all with 200hp Hispano-Suiza engines, and, judging from photographs in The SE 5 File, both two and four bladed propellers were fitted, eg B4862, B4866 B4897 and B4899 had two blades, while B4863, B4876 and B4890 had four blades.

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Gareth

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FE2b - 20 Sqn

Forced to land on 29/2/1916 nea

..near Menin.

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Belgian coast, 1/6/1917

Possibly Nieuport 17 - 6th Naval Sqn (Squadron Cdr Breeze) forced to land.

Regards,

Cnock

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Belgian coast, 1/6/1917

Possibly Nieuport 17 - 6th Naval Sqn (Squadron Cdr Breeze) forced to land.

Cnock

It's definitely a Nieuport 17, but the red bands on the cowling, and the style of the fuselage number, makes it look like a machine from No 1 Squadron RFC. What a pity the photographer didn't manage to include the aeroplane's serial number on the rudder.

Gareth

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Hallo Gareth,

There exits other photos o f the same Nieuport force landed in German occupied part of Belgian coast , but again without serial number.

Regards,

Cnock

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Douai 8/4/1917

FE2b serial 7669 - 100 Sqn

downed by Lt. Klein - Jasta 4

Lt. Butler and 2Lt.Robb POW

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Belgian coast, 1/6/1917

Possibly Nieuport 17 - 6th Naval Sqn (Squadron Cdr Breeze) forced to land.

Sorry to dissapoint - Naval 6 didn't flly Nieuport 17s, in fact, the RNAS didn't fly Nieuport 17s. What they called a 17B was in fact a type 21.

Charles Dempster "Windy" Breese was flying a Nieuport 17Bis - a rather different machine.

Mike

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Mike,

Thank You for the additional info!

Regards,

Cnock

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I have this image in our "archive", but I have no idea where it was sourced or the story behind it.

It is an earlier variant BE-2c, compared to the 34 Squadron aeroplane at the head of this thread.

Any thoughts chaps?

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  • 1 year later...

9/11/1916

BE2c - 12 Sqn, Lt GK Knight pow,

see Lewis gun attached to fuselage

Cnock

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Ten Brielen, 21/5/1916

FE2b - 20 Sqn

Captain James and Lt Aked, pow, victory Lt. W. Frankl

Cnock

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Sorry to dissapoint - Naval 6 didn't flly Nieuport 17s, in fact, the RNAS didn't fly Nieuport 17s. What they called a 17B was in fact a type 21.

Charles Dempster "Windy" Breese was flying a Nieuport 17Bis - a rather different machine.

Mike

The RFC's first Nieuport 17s were in fact transfered from the RNAS being N1553, N1494 and N1561 (French ids) being re numbered as A200*, A 201 and A203 - this suggests that the RNAS flew some Nieuport 17s

*This aircraft at one time being flown by Albert Ball

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SE5a 84 Sqn, downed 20/10/1917 near Ypres.

Pilot 2Lt. Watts pow.

In the rear another captured plane, Airco DH5

There is an account by 2/Lieut WEWatts of this incident in Voices in Flight p.p. 203-213 from his original interview by Anna Malinovska in Nov 1978.

He became a POW, ending up in Schweidnitz.

Cheers

Bob

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The first photo of the SE5a is interesting in that the Lewis gun mounted on the upper wing still has the cooling jacket (and presumably cooling fins), whereas the ones fitted to aircraft had the cooling jacket and cooling fins removed because of the cooling effect of the air rushing over the barrel

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