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Airplane engine

from Provincial Archives of Alberta

• yavor.dinkov said:

  Hispano-Suiza V8, possibly Wright-Hispano.

• Provincial Archives of Alberta said:

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

• yavor.dinkov said:

  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

Aircraft Accident

from SDASM Archives

• TVL1970 said:

  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...

Sky Pilot and Pilot in the Sky?

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 41 older comments, and then…
• Irish251 said:

  Those are Observer rather than pilot’s wings.

• i-lenticularis (NO GRAPHICS) said:

  Absolutely!

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Irish251 i-lenticularis (NO GRAPHICS) What does an observer do? Observe?

• Irish251 said:

  National Library of Ireland on The Commons He is the second crewman and would have had a mounted machine-gun, but the title derives, I think, from the Royal Flying Corps' original role which was general reconnaissance and spotting for ground artillery.

• beachcomber australia said:

  25 January 1918 was a Friday ...