June 12, 20205 yr Mark: Regarding your earlier comment: "Nice scenery package to show off the biplane. 😎 The guy in the back isn't the rear gunner, he's a photographer holding one of those point & shoot cameras...😜 I'd best help that young Aviatrix off that wing: Don't want her punching through the panels with those heels... 😉 Better me getting punched than the aeroplane! 😄" So, "The guy in the back isn't the rear gunner, he's a photographer holding one of those point & shoot cameras..." Oh well,...will be hard to justify, please see extra image, below, it appears, though, to me, by the position of the right-arm of rear-pilot, the "gun" is ready to go...on demand...(please also see armament notes below)...! "I'd best help that young Aviatrix off that wing: Don't want her punching through the panels with those heels... Better me getting punched than the aeroplane!" Prompted, by your gentlemanly offer to help out the Aviatrix, here,...🙂...I looked again, and I'm not sure that (color-matched) shoe is even permitted as standard gear...in the plane...(btw, JOHN DOUGLAS, is a RW Aviation Gear company in Russia, established 1935, as one of the pictures show...) [Now, more seriously, in honor of the pedigree of this plane, I provide, below, 2 more images, of it, also at Severka Airfield: 1. F2B Mk.1 'Biff' (C4619 No.62 Squadron RFC/RAF 'R' 1918); Note: Please excuse, I've parked it, here, on the Scenery Airport's Helipad, without permission... 2. F2B Mk.1 'Biff' ("BR401 - Luchtvaart Adfeling); Note: Look at that curious marking on the fuselage, I didn't have time to investigate the emblem...] Finally, just a bit, of additional information, about F.2B's armament/guns, for the history-buffs: "The Bristol F.2 Fighter was armed in what had by then become the standard weapons configuration for a British two-seater military aircraft: one synchronised fixed, forward-firing .303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers machine gun (in this case mounted under the cowling to avoid freezing) and a single flexible .303 in (7.7 mm) Lewis Gun on a Scarff ring over the observer's rear cockpit. The F.2B variant often carried a second Lewis gun on the rear cockpit mounting, although observers found the weight of the twin Lewis gun mounting difficult to handle in the high altitudes at which combat increasingly took place in the last year of the war, many preferring to retain a single gun..."
June 12, 20205 yr Author Folks: A quick search indicates: That (2nd) F.2B Bristol belongs to "Luchtvaart Afdeling" (Dutch: Aviation Department)... And, the logo, on it, is (likely) a representation of the Map of Netherlands... Good day...!
June 12, 20205 yr The white emblem on the side of the fuselage appears to be a bird of prey in flight - talons extended, wings in mid-sweep.😎 Further justification for the photographer: One can clearly see the flat drum shaped film canister lying horizontally across the top of the camera for easy access! 😄 Ahem, seriously I know it's meant to be a Lewis gun.. 😎 Mark Robinson Part-time Ferroequinologist Author of FLIGHT: A near-future short story (ebook available on amazon) I made the baby cry - A2A Simulations L-049 Constellation Sky Simulations MD-11 V2.2 Pilot. The best "lite" MD-11 money can buy (well, it's not freeware!)
June 12, 20205 yr Author Mark: Thanks, you're probably right....and, this (little) plane is growing on me a bit.... Here is a nice 5.45 min video, reachable by searching for "Bristol F2B 'Brisfit' Fighter - 208 Squadron, Royal Air Force 1920-1930".: Liked the poppy drop (?) scenes and the landing on grass-field towards the end....
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