biplanes

Wow there is not much to that plane. Great photo thanks for sharing this on Flickr.

It would take a very brave soul to take that into the air.

The aircraft is a member of the Maurice-Farman III / Boxkite family. The front is pure Boxkite, but the tail arrangement is quite different (longerons running to a single rudder and monoplane tail). I'll see what I can find out via contacts and records

Thanks a lot. Please do let us know if you come up with something definitive.

I had to wait quite some time to share information about this pusher biplane. This was because I wanted to enter it in the Breguet Pre-1914 Challenge as held on the Aerodrome Forum. To do this I first had to win a Challenge, which earned me the right to enter with a new Challenge. The Challenge has finally ended after quite some hints as identification of this machine is very difficult. www.theaerodrome.com/forum/showthread.php?t=64478 The picture shows an early Russian pusher biplane dating from the Czarist times (photographed probably 1913-1914). It is amazing that this picture is held in the Albany archives. Sovjet (Russian) encycopledia [Shavrov - Шавров] describing Russian and Soviet airplanes could not produce a picture. The pusher biplane on the picture can be distinguished by the mix of two Henry Farman designs in this plane. Henry Farman pusher biplanes of several types were license built in the pre-WW§ period in Russia in large numbers, for instance by the Duks [Дукс] factory. Studying the pusher on this picture will reveal that the front part is based on the Henry Farman-VII model (Russian identification) and the back side - especially the tail - is modelled on the later Henry Farman-XVI (Russian identification). This mix gives away that we are looking at the third design of flight instructor A.Ya. Dokuchayev [А.Я.Докучаев] mostly identified as the Dokuchayev-3 [Докучаев-3]. When you look very close at the rudder you will see the number '3' beneath. Dokuchayev made for some reason his 'own' Henry Farman types tailor made for his instructor job it seems. The seat of the instructor can be seen in this picture right behind the pupil who is already in place. The instructor could look straight ahead over the head of the pupil and guide the (single) flying stick or when needed could take over command completely.

Some info on the history of de Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moth here: www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=106708

Built 1939, with the RAF until 1946, became EI-AFJ in 1950, still extant (as G-AHPZ) in 2014 www.aerialvisuals.ca/Airframe/Gallery/0/32/0000032066.jpg

In 2023 abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1856843

According to this : flyinginireland.com/2022/04/those-munster-men-in-their-fl... this is David Montgomery on the EI-AFJ aircraft

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I had enjoyed flights to Dublin and Cork, in different aircraft. During some time off in Dublin, almost three decades ago, I asked the Irish Aviation Authority about converting my Airline Transport Pilot Licence to an Irish equivalent with the intention of immigrating. I was advised not to bother.
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Looks like Newcastle (Co. Wicklow) Church lower left. So GoogleMapsSatellite3D is somewhere around here -
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This is a Voisin Type 8 (Voisin 8 / Voisin VIII) pusher equipped with what appears to be a 37mm cannon. Another view of what is certainly the same aircraft: Note the nose art with the Owl clutching (or dropping) the bomb. The Voisin Type 8, in particular the cannon armed type, was used frequently on night attack and bombing missions during the First World War. Norman Prince was an American aviator and pilot who was a founding member of the Lafayette Escadrille. Prince would perish from head injuries sustained in October 1916 when his Nieuport 17 tangled with telegraph cables and crashed. Given that the Voisin Type 8 initially entered service with the French Air Force in November 1916, it is likely that this aircraft was named "Norman Prince" in his honor. See: Voisin Type 8 airandspace.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?object=nasm_A... Norman Prince en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Prince www.earlyaviators.com/eprinorm.htm albindenis.free.fr/Site_escadrille/escadrille124Lafayette...

Thanks a lot. I was very curious about this one. Do you know if it was common for a plane to have two names? Is it possible that Prince actually flew this one and that it was named "Henriette?"

Oh, nevermind. I just noticed the discrepancy with the dates. I wonder if the plane is named "Norman Prince" and the owl mascot is named "Henriette."

Yes, I would be interested to learn the origin and fate of both the "Henriette" name and owl nose art, as well as stylized logo ("AVSA"? "ASA"?) below "Norman Prince."

I've been puzzling over that, as well. I looks to me like some combination of HSV.