Cnock Posted 20 January , 2006 Share Posted 20 January , 2006 BE2e of 34 Sqn Was forced to land on 29/8/1916 during storm. 2lt Cairns and 2Lt Tulloch were made prisoner of war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 20 January , 2006 Author Share Posted 20 January , 2006 SE5a 84 Sqn Lt McCANN made pow NW Plessier Post nr. 2 happened 12/4/1918 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 20 January , 2006 Author Share Posted 20 January , 2006 SE5a 84 Sqn, downed 20/10/1917 near Ypres. Pilot 2Lt. Watts pow. In the rear another captured plane, Airco DH5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 20 January , 2006 Author Share Posted 20 January , 2006 Anyone knows more about this Sopwith Camel? Thank You. Cnock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 20 January , 2006 Author Share Posted 20 January , 2006 Who knows the story behind this captured Nieuport, Regards, Cnock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolphin Posted 20 January , 2006 Share Posted 20 January , 2006 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 20 January , 2006 Author Share Posted 20 January , 2006 Gareth, Thank You very much for the information, Regards, Cnock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 20 January , 2006 Author Share Posted 20 January , 2006 Morane LA - 1 Sqn Tournai (Belgium) 10/1/1916 2Lt. McEwan and 2Lt. Adams pow ¨Pic previous post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambretta150 Posted 20 January , 2006 Share Posted 20 January , 2006 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolphin Posted 20 January , 2006 Share Posted 20 January , 2006 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. Regards Gareth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 21 January , 2006 Author Share Posted 21 January , 2006 FE2b - 20 Sqn Forced to land on 29/2/1916 nea ..near Menin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFF Posted 21 January , 2006 Share Posted 21 January , 2006 Excellent photograghs!!! If any Veterans Associations/or historians of these RAF Squadrons online-theink they would be interested in seeing these photos too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 21 January , 2006 Author Share Posted 21 January , 2006 Belgian coast, 1/6/1917 Possibly Nieuport 17 - 6th Naval Sqn (Squadron Cdr Breeze) forced to land. Regards, Cnock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolphin Posted 21 January , 2006 Share Posted 21 January , 2006 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 22 January , 2006 Author Share Posted 22 January , 2006 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 22 January , 2006 Author Share Posted 22 January , 2006 Douai 8/4/1917 FE2b serial 7669 - 100 Sqn downed by Lt. Klein - Jasta 4 Lt. Butler and 2Lt.Robb POW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted 22 January , 2006 Share Posted 22 January , 2006 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 22 January , 2006 Author Share Posted 22 January , 2006 Mike, Thank You for the additional info! Regards, Cnock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowNslow Posted 27 January , 2006 Share Posted 27 January , 2006 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 8 November , 2007 Author Share Posted 8 November , 2007 9/11/1916 BE2c - 12 Sqn, Lt GK Knight pow, see Lewis gun attached to fuselage Cnock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 8 November , 2007 Author Share Posted 8 November , 2007 Ten Brielen, 21/5/1916 FE2b - 20 Sqn Captain James and Lt Aked, pow, victory Lt. W. Frankl Cnock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted 8 November , 2007 Share Posted 8 November , 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOB ROBBINS Posted 26 November , 2007 Share Posted 26 November , 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobL Posted 27 November , 2007 Share Posted 27 November , 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 27 November , 2007 Share Posted 27 November , 2007 Vickers near Lille Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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