The glider is probably pre 1914 and located in the Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, area. The occupant appears to have a car steering wheel-type control at his disposal but no obvious foot controls. The undercarriage appears to be a basic bicycle forks and wheel construction.
NZ Wings June 1982
The machine is a monoplane with arched wings. Its cloth-capped pilot is seated in a faired central nacelle, immediately in front of a large vertical piston engine, possibly with four cylinders, driving a two-bladed wooden pusher propeller. The nacelle is supported on a twin-wheel undercarriage, and a few feet out on either side are open frames extending rearwards to carry the tall surfaces. The rear ends of these frames are covered in to serve as fins There appears to be a monoplane tailplane, possibly with an elevator, plus twin rudders behind the tailplane. The wings appear to be double-surfaced only along their leading edges, back to the front spar, and single surfaced aft of the front spar, and their fabric covering is clearly poorly applied, as it may be seen hanging down beneath the inboard leading edges. Inset ailerons are fitted at the wingtips. It is extremely difficult to date it any more precisely than 1909-13.
Aeroplane Monthly August 2006
Farman seaplane circa 1908
Built in 1913 in San Francisco CA., powered by a Hall-Scott “80” engine, the aircraft was flown at Grand Junction CO on 23 September 1913 by William Blakeley.
Cologne Eindecker of 1911
An unidentified Eindecker of 1911 at Cologne. Probably photographed at the Butzweiler farm airfield, what is almost certainly a machine by Jean Hugot or Bruno Werntgen, to name but two possibles among a small group of very early Kölner aviators. Powered with what is most likely a Delfosse three-cylinder radial engine – a copy of the Anzani W “fan” – developing about 25 hp.
A 1914 VTOL machine
1910 Monoplane
Present but not flown at the Los Angeles Aviation Meet at Dominguez in January 1910, its actual identity is not determinable at this time.
A Hot-air Balloon exhibited by an unidentified aerialist at Fargo, North Dakota – from an empty lot on the 300 block of Broadway next to the Fargo Lime & Fuel Co. – circa 1899. Possibly associated with the “Fargo Fire Festival”, an annual event celebrating Fargo’s rebuilding after a devastating fire which took place in June 1893.
Mohawk Biplane
Marcel Penot in the Mohawk Biplane Mineola to Hicksville, L. I.
26 miles cross-country in 30 minutes (50 hp. Harriman Engine)
The Mohawk biplane employs a powerful Harriman four Cylinder water cooled engine
Marcel Penot the French aviator announced that he would start from the Guttenberg race track at about 9 am Monday morning Jan. 2, and attempt to make a Landing in Manhattan somewhere in the Vicinity of Columbus Cycle. Penot will drive a Mohawk by plane which has been used successfully by George Byrnes and himself. The Mohawk biplane employs a powerful Harriman four Cylinder water cooled engine made especially for Penot it closely resembles the Farman biplane. Penot is 82 years old and has been in America several years. He was born at Rheims France and previous to coming to America was employed in the famous wine cellars there.
Paris, 1870 balloon
During the Prussian siege, in September 1870 balloon was the only way of getting mail and people out of the city.
During the siege of Paris in 1870, sixty-six balloons left the city, mostly at night, carrying more than 100 VIP refugees, 9 tons of mail and over 400 carrier pigeons.
Only 7 of them failed to reach safety; and the 57 pigeons that managed to find their way back to the city carried in about 100,000 messages on microfilm.
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