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Wreckage of Royal Flying Corps (RFC) Sopwith Camel, Serial No. B5201, belonging to 89 Squadron, operating from the airfield at Harling Road. Fatal crash on March 19, 1918, caused by an engine failure and resulting stall. 2nd Lt. Luigi Leopoldo Guasche Costa (RFC) was killed in the accident. See: theyserved.wikia.com/wiki/Luigi_Costa Second Lieutenant Luigi Leopoldo Gauche Costa was an English officer of the Royal Flying Corps who died during the First World War. He was born on 4 June 1899, in Kensington, the son of Cavaliere Girolamo Luigi and Marie Antoinette Costa (née Lesieur), of Italy and France, respectively. Educated at Dulwich, where he was captain of the cricket team, Costa enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps in March 1917. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant on 11 October 1917. Costa qualified as a pilot on 22 January 1918, and served as an instructor with the 89th Training Squadron. He died on 19 March 1918 when his aircraft suffered engine failure near Thetford, Norfolk. He is interned at Golders Green Crematorium. See also: www.kingstonaviation.org/100-years-ago/1918.html www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1918.htm www.rafmuseumstoryvault.org.uk/archive/7000268362-costa-l...

Hispano-Suiza V8, possibly Wright-Hispano.

yavor.dinkov Thank you! Is there any way to narrow it down to one type?

Provincial Archives of Alberta May be. There are several coded parts. Can You post the codes from a high-resolution picture? In this way identification can be confirmed. Otherwise, an exact combination of details can point to a specific model but there are many variants of this engine ... Regards, Yavor

I think this is a segment of a Curtiss OX-5 V8, which was a commonly used engine for training aircraft in Would War One. You have two other photos that show this type of engine. This one: shows what looks like a different segment from an OX-5, while this: shows a complete OX-5. This segment appears to be the engine's front pair of cylinders, and we're viewing it from what would be the engine's rear end. The cylinder walls have been cut away to show the pistons and valves within. The cut through the segment also shows channels where lubricating oil would flow inside the crankcase and around the crankshaft, as well as the oil sump at the bottom of the crankcase. This looks like a training tool for engine mechanics.

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