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Published: 2007-02-09 02:12:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 371; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 3
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This is a fictitious 1911 postcard of an International Aviation Meeting in Fischamend, Austria-Hungary that actually never took place.It's a screenshot from a flight simulator (X-Plane) modified in Photoshop to look like those typical early 20th century colourized b/w postcards. You find lots of those postcards on flea markets; Aviation was the most popular theme in these days.
The aeroplanes on the postcards are:
Santos-Dumont No.14bis (in front),
Santos-Dumont No.19 "Demoiselle" (right behind the 14bis),
the Dunne tailless biplane (2nd from right),
the famous Bleriot XI monoplane (left behind the Dunne),
all made by Mark Fisher for X-Plane,
and in the back there are an
Etrich II "Taube" ("Pidgeon", left) and
an Etrich XII 120HP "Renntaube" ("racing pidgeon",middle),
and last but not least, the first flying British aeroplane, the A. V. Roe I Triplane 9HP,
all made by myself for the same sim.
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Comments: 4
Nice effects! I like those old planes.
I think the one on the front doesn't look a lot like Santos Dumont 14-bis though (maybe because of the angle).
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Thanks a lot!
I assure you it is a 14-bis. Mark Fisher is an expert on the topic, as I am (specialized on Austro-Hungarian aviation)
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Ops then it must be
I'm Brasilian, Santos Dummond and his 14-bis are very popular here. Maybe I'm too used to see it frontwards. In fact I think I had never seen a back view of it.
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It's especially strange because it is a canard configuration... Bleriot experimented with this, too, and failed.
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