Thulin A approaching the crowd - very slowly!Photographed at the Flygvapnet's (Swedish Air Force) celebration of 100 years of Swedish aviation, held at Linköping yesterday, 13 June 2010. Fortunately the usual Swedish summer rain held off until the flying was over.
I took over 500 photos at this event, some of which will I hope appear on this web site, when I have found enough time to sort them out!
Mikael Carlson owns and flies two of these Blériot XI’s, orginally built by AETA - AB Enoch Thulins Aeroplanfabrik - under the name Thulin A. The first one was found by Mikael in a barn in the late 80’s, disassembled but complete. Mikael restored it to flying condition, took off for the first time in 1991 and has been flying it regularly every year since then.
Both aeroplanes are equipped with original 7 cylinder Gnôme-Omega 50 hp rotary engines 1908 model, engines of course restored by Mikael himself.
Thulin A/Bleriot XI 1910 details:
Wing span: 8.95 m
Length: 7.76 m
Height: 2.54 m
Empty weight: 317 kg
Engine: 7-cylinder Gnôme-Omega 50 hp rotary
Cruise: 75 km/h.
Picture added on 14 June 2010 at 15:12
