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See books.google.com/books?id=I20vAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA55&lp...

specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/ms/95-30/95-30... www.earlyaviators.com/esunsted.htm simanaitissays.com/2016/05/30/sundstedt-almost-flies-the-... simanaitissays.com/2016/05/31/saga-of-the-sundstedt-hanne...

flyingmachines.ru/Site2/Crafts/Craft25903.htm has a photo that could be in the same location, which might be in New Jersey.

Evening star., February 23, 1919, Image 67 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1919-02-23/ed-... shows a similar view.

swanq " “at present riding on waters of Newark Bay, off the southern end of Bayonne, N.J.”, per one of those links.

Ansaldo Balilla still in its Italian military markings..... Stig

This appears to be the Balilla operated by Rickenbacker on behalf of Sheridan Motor Company (note the markings, albeit faint and blurry, under the cockpit). Here are two other photos of this aircraft in the SDASM's Flickr collection: www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/9405110034/ www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/6997138842/

I can't see much resemblance to a DH-4 in this aircraft.. :-). It is a L.W.F. J-2 which was ordered by the US Post Office after the war. Twenty built and I believe this includes the 10 reported as built for the US Army as Twin DH-4. Those final contracts are very difficult to be sure about. Never seen any of these in anything but US Mail markings. Stig

This shot is fuzzy and is from a poor angle to show the similarities, but the wing was the same, but lengthened, the fuselage had a nose cone added in place of the Liberty, and the fin and rudder were the same, but had two additional rudders added, on each side on top of the elevators. It was initially flown with two Hispano-Suiza V-8 engines but these were quickly replaced with two Hall Scott L-6 inline engines of lower power.