Marco Posted 29 July , 2006 Share Posted 29 July , 2006 Below two aircraft I can not 100% identify. There is always a strut or wheelcap wrong.... Pictures taken at the Swiss Air Force Museum. Do you know what they are? Int. Ref. 04-620 Int. Ref. 07-620 TIA! Regards, Marco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 29 July , 2006 Share Posted 29 July , 2006 Marco, was it explained in detail on the fancy designer display post on the very left of the picture? Just zoom in and tell us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolphin Posted 29 July , 2006 Share Posted 29 July , 2006 Marco The aeroplane in the upper photograph is a Nieuport 28. The Swiss used fourteen of them as trainers in the post-War period, after first encountering the type when 2Lt James F Ashenden of the 147th Aero Squadron USAS crash landed N6212 '2' onto a Swiss farm, after being hit by Flak over Metz on 5 June 1918. 2Lt Ashenden was interned at Camp Andermatt in the Swiss Alps until he was released on 28 November 1918. Regards Gareth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Roberts Posted 30 July , 2006 Share Posted 30 July , 2006 I think the lower aircraft must be a Haefeli DH5. Look carefully on the fin - it says "DH5". The only picture I have of a Haefeli is the much earlier DH3, which resembled early WW1 German types such as the Aviatik BII. But in the text of my reference, it mentions the DH5: a 2-seat observation type that first flew in 1919, and sixty were built for the Swiss Fliegertruppe. August Haefeli was a Swiss aircraft designer who learned his trade with the German Ago firm, and returned to Switzerland in 1915 and worked for EKW, which manufactured most of the early Swiss aircraft. Adrian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolphin Posted 30 July , 2006 Share Posted 30 July , 2006 Adrian Your identification of the Häfeli DH5 was spot on. Armed with your information, I Googled and found more photographs of the machine in the museum at: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=e...2004-32,RNWE:en Regards Gareth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Posted 30 July , 2006 Author Share Posted 30 July , 2006 Marco, was it explained in detail on the fancy designer display post on the very left of the picture? Just zoom in and tell us Egbert, I didn't want to take all the fun away.... Seriously, the originals are colour slides and the signs are not sharp enough/contain too little detail to do anything usefull with the signs. I tried. Gareth and Adrian, thank you very much, it's appreciated. Look carefully on the fin - it says "DH5". Oh dear it does.... Excellent museum b.t.w. near Zurich. Highly recommended. Regards, Marco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Posted 30 July , 2006 Author Share Posted 30 July , 2006 Just found this link/website. Very usefull! Regards, Marco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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