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This appears to the be the Burgess Model I flying boat (not to be confused with the Burgess Model I Scout) built for Robert J. Collier. Famed aviator Frank Coffyn tested the aircraft for Collier at Marblehead, Massachusetts (dating the photo to July/August 1913). The engine is a 220 horsepower Anzani 20 radial engine, an immensely powerful engine for the era featuring two 10-cylinder rows. In fact, this particular engine (visible just behind Coffyn) may be the very first of its type built and sold by Italian motor manufacturer Anzani. www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1913/1913%20-%200722...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Coffyn

Frank T. Coffyn Aero Club of America Pilot # 26 October 24,1910

Has a Bleriot look to it.

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Bleriot type 11, 3 cylinder anzani engine

looks like a french demoiselle, overhead wing monoplane circa 1908

No Santos-Dumont Demoiselle, the pilot was seated there beneath the wing. Also the engine is a 2 or 4-cylinder engine (no Anzani), most likely a Dutheil-Chambers which was built in a horizontal 2-cylinder version of 20 hp (air cooled). Surely the machine superficially looks like a Blériot monoplane (Type XI) but it is not a Blériot as none of them was fitted with the mentioned horizontal engine. Further I seem to see different details in the wing (very deep) and the way the wing warping is accomplished (two pyramidal constructions above the fuselage). Everything hints to one of the many contemporary builders who based their machine of the Blériot Type XI and made their own adjustments to 'upgrade' it. Machine on the picture could be from the USA.

I know it was because of the open cockpits but man I do love the style they had back then.

I like that classic aviator look, too.

This is a Caudron G.4. This particular example is powered by two Anzani 10 radial engines (distinguished by their dual exhaust collector rings). See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caudron_G.4

Thank you!

This is one of the 12 Caudron G.4 (also given as G.IV roman numeral) biplanes (partly) produced by the British Caudron Company at Cricklewood. These were fitted with the Anzani radials and delivered to the RNAS. The RNAS order for the machines was dated 1 October 1915, while machines had serials 3289 - 3300. Most of them were deleted in 1916, not an unusual service time for aeroplanes at that time. This picture shows that it was used in some publication. In some way only the lighter part was shown in that publication, sort of Photoshopping avant la lettre.