biplanes

166 photos tagged biplanes, from 13 members of Flickr Commons.

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1910

2016

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TVL1970 said:
Curtiss JN-4 Canuck. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_JN-4
Provincial Archives of Alberta said:
Thank you!
D70 said:
Recently spotted and in better condition. Click on the photo for details. www.flickr.com/photos/d70w7/7963374468/in/photolist-
Provincial Archives of Alberta said:
That's great. I didn't know that there was one of these at the Reynolds.

TVL1970 said:
The Royal Navy (modified) Courageous-class battlecruiser HMS Furious, as initially completed with its flight deck (for launching and recovering aircraft) forward of its superstructure while retaining a single 18-inch gun turret aft. This arrangement for operating aircraft was unwieldy as it sounds, so in converting the ship into an aircraft carrier in November 1917 the aft turret was removed and an additional flight deck was added aft of the superstructure. The Royal Navy quickly came to the realization that an aircraft carrier featuring two separate flight decks separated by an immense superstructure in the middle was not an optimal arrangement. Accordingly, HMS Furious would undergo a much more significant conversion and re-build between June 1921 and September 1925. This was made possible by the removal of her superstructure. She'd serve the Royal Navy up until September 1944, when her age and the delivery of much more capable purpose-built escort and full-size aircraft carriers made her redundant. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Furious_(47)

Richard Norton said:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Castle
B-59 said:
With his pet monkey, Jeffrey, s. hometownbyhandlebar.com/?p=2118 S. also www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/27288652485/
B-59 said:
His wife had a pet monkey as well, named Rastus: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/7949420400/
B-59 said:
"On February 15, 1918, at a military airfield outside of Fort Worth, Texas, his plane stalled during a climb and roll maneuver. (Vernon was trying to avoid crashing into another cadet-piloted plane.) Vernon was only 75 feet in the air, but he had given the safer rear seat to his student, and died when the plane fell nose first into the ground. According to the monument at the crash site, "Neither the other pilot, his student cadet, nor Vernon's pet monkey, Jeffrey, were seriously injured." (Jeffrey's ultimate fate is unknown, but Irene's monkey, Rastas, is buried at the Hartsdale Pet Cemetery in New York.) www.roadsideamerica.com/story/13035