Here's a prototype ...or is it?

Post by **Niner** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 1:48 pm

Is this real or imagined? Propaganda? A prototype that quickly failed? Where's the guy's bullets? Shouldn't there be a belt of them some place? Or maybe I just don't see it. In any case this idea couldn't have lasted too long in it's first configuration.

From a hundred years ago.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/ ... d-1/seq-1/

Dave 101 · Post by **Dave 101** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 3:39 pm

I know that is supposed to be hundred year old picture but it looks faked to me , looks like the Wright brothers plane and the pic of the guy with the gun is faked in there , he looks as though he is standing which would have been correct for a rear gunner in a biplane and the gun is on a tripod in front of an open seat which he is behind .

I was reading an article today which has now proven that the majority of WW1 dog fight photos were faked back in the 1930s by a couple who made a fortune by producing a book allegedly of a WWI pilots diary , he was supposed to have strapped a camera to a machine gun , the camera would start taking pictures when the gun was fired .
It was all fiction and the dog fights wee created with models . But ever since WWI they had been used as historical reference because no one expected it to be a fraud .
It wasn't until after the couple had died and their possessions were left to a museum the fraud came to light .

Dave

Article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... money.html

joseyclosey · Post by **joseyclosey** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 9:48 am

Don't know if its a fake but the gun looks like a Lewis gun, you can just make out the drum mag on top.

Post by **Niner** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 10:29 am

Well... those fly boys did have some problems. The aerial artillery was being developed too.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/ ... d-1/seq-1/

Post by **DuncaninFrance** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 11:21 am

Its a fake . Check out the size of the pilot then the gun and gunner..........................

Aughnanure · Post by **Aughnanure** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 11:43 pm

The question should be: Is the newspaper a fake?

Dave 101 · Post by **Dave 101** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 12:14 am

Aughnanure wrote:The question should be: Is the newspaper a fake?

I hadn't looked at the rest of the page till you mentioned it , most definitely faked . Its just cuttings from different papers laid out badly .

Dave

Aughnanure · Post by **Aughnanure** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 6:36 am

Dave 101 wrote:
Aughnanure wrote:The question should be: Is the newspaper a fake?
I hadn't looked at the rest of the page till you mentioned it , most definitely faked . Its just cuttings from different papers laid out badly .

Dave

All 8 pages?

Post by **Niner** » Wed Aug 13, 2014 9:16 am

It's one of several real newspapers published on on particular date. It's from the Seattle Star. The paper is real. Maybe somebody who supplied them with a photo is creative with photo manipulation..... long before Photoshop and such.

Karl/Pa. · Post by **Karl/Pa.** » Sat Aug 16, 2014 10:41 am

Here's a real prototype.

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