Need help identifying aircraft please. Possibly WW1?

[Gary Petts]

Hi,
I am with the South Australian Aviation Museum History Group and we are trying to identify the aviator in the image. Can anyone identify the aircraft please? Number on the aircraft appears to be M? 4406

Cheers, Gary

 

[Snautzer01]

MB4406

 

[rednev]

Possibly an ansaldo
a better place to ask would be the forums at Welcome to The Aerodrome - Aces and Aircraft of World War I

it is a dedicated ww1 aviation site

 

[Wurger]

Not the Ansaldo but the Martinsyde G.100 or G.102 Elephant, a single-seat fighter-scout, bomber and reconnaissance biplane ...

the pic source:

Martinsyde G.100 Elephant - avionslegendaires.net

: Martinsyde G.100 Elephant, Chasseur d'escorte, bombardier léger de reconnaissance, avion de reconnaissance stratégique., construit par Martinsyde, en 1916, pour Royaume-Uni

www.avionslegendaires.net

BRITISH AIRCRAFT OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1914-1918

Martinsyde G.102 Elephant single-seat fighter biplane. Serial number A6286. Named aircraft 'Rhodesia III'.

www.iwm.org.uk

 

[Snautzer01]

Possibly an ansaldo
a better place to ask would be the forums at Welcome to The Aerodrome - Aces and Aircraft of World War I

it is a dedicated ww1 aviation site

We have a Wurger

 

[Gary Petts]

Not the Ansaldo but the Martinsyde G.100 or G.102 Elephant, a single-seat fighter-scout, bomber and reconnaissance biplane ...

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the pic source:

Martinsyde G.100 Elephant - avionslegendaires.net

: Martinsyde G.100 Elephant, Chasseur d'escorte, bombardier léger de reconnaissance, avion de reconnaissance stratégique., construit par Martinsyde, en 1916, pour Royaume-Uni

www.avionslegendaires.net

BRITISH AIRCRAFT OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1914-1918

Martinsyde G.102 Elephant single-seat fighter biplane. Serial number A6286. Named aircraft 'Rhodesia III'.

www.iwm.org.uk

Excellent

Thanks Wurger

 

[Wurger]

My pleasure.

 

[nuuumannn]

I just noticed this picture of the Martinsyde, behind it is Albatros D V G'56, captured at Poperinghe in 1917. It was destroyed when its pilot lost consciousness whilst demonstrating it over the Firth of Forth in December 1917. This picture shows it at St Omer, France before it went to the UK.

Great War Tour 138

 

[Wurger]