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[max_thehitman]

OK... name that "thing" 

[SAS~Storebror]

I name it "cuckoo"

[SAS~Storebror]

Oh an F-35

[Alfie Noakes]

  Oh an F-35  

Imagine if Mr Geary had 1.2 trillion dollars to spend on his baby in 1911....VTOL, Stealth etc...no problem....

Looks like it gave a good haircut though......



Forget about that circular triplane nonsense.......what you want for powered flight is STEAM



What year & who's the LOONY trying to get it off the ground ?

Cheers

Alfie

[max_thehitman]

Aright Alfie! You got it correct.
It is the Geary 1911 "thing".
No sure if it ever flew, because there only exists one photo of it    It is an interesting design, which would later be copied
in the 1920s and 1930s with similar circular wing-shaped wing designs on other aircraft.

As for that "steam machine" from your post,
 it looks kind of like the first "aerial drone", judging from its size.
That is a 1890 creation by a guy named E.P. Frost , It weighted 650 pounds and used steam-power to flap a set of goose-feathered wings.
Flop...Flop...Flop...Flop... 
It did not fly. AAAAHAHAHAH
---- Here are some of his other inventions with much better photos - http://www.oakingtonplane.co.uk/olm_e_p_frost.php


It has been written by some people, that in 1884, Alexander Mozhaisky, a captain in the Russian Imperial Navy,
 launched a steam-powered monoplane down a ramp near St. Petersburg, Russia. With success in flying.
- http://www.wright-brothers.org/History_Wing/History_of_the_Airplane/Who_Was_First/Who_Was_First_Intro/Who_Was_First_Intro.htm



Ok, someone else post the next photo

[SAS~Storebror]

Ok, someone else post the next photo

Something easy:


Best regards - Mike

[Radoye]

Fw 44 Stieglitz with an Argus inline engine perhaps?

[SAS~Storebror]

Argus inline engine

That much is right, the rest is wrong.

Best regards - Mike

[Bizu]

Ar 66? Go 145?

[SAS~Storebror]

Neither nor.

[Radoye]

Okay, a total shot in the dark here - He 72A?

[singüe]

Udet's Flamingo?