This summer I decided to investigate old photos, put somewhere deep in the dark of old wardrobes, drawers and book cases, and all that because one large photo of hydroplane with sailors and aviators around it, came up to me before 5 or 6 years (then not occupied by aviation in any sense like today).
My uncle (died in 1943) was an aviator on hydroplanes in Kingdom of Yugoslavia and I knew that there are some photos. So I found some of them, but one I was looking, i couldn't find. The house was enlarged and renovated and my mother put it somewhere...
OK, here is what I find first (phot.1) and I was surprised - I never saw that photo before. The hydroplane is photographed in a small harbor named Zlarin, on the island of the same name. It is in a middle Dalmatia, in a front of the harbour city Sibenik (Shibenik). A man standing on the floats is unknown to me (could be someone connected whit my uncle - I must investigate
). People from the harbour a grouped on the shore. A women in a typical island costume is bowed in the background, maybe washing something (fish, shells, clots
in the sea.
The year is 1937 (phot.2-the back side).
Big number 52 is on the side behind a 2nd cockpit of the airplane.
On the tail there is a light color (white?) sign resambling a stylisized skull and under it something writes that is not visible, although I scanned in 7500 dpi (phot.3 ). On the ruder it is written in a dark color: "PVT-H" and "Br 4" under it. Bellow that, on the light surface there are some letters and numbers that are not visible good (no matter the 7500 dpi scan). Only in the third row I can surely identify a number 177 at the end.
Maybe I should try to scan that part even with a larger resolution
This type of airplane was a trainer type 2 seat parasol wing hydroplane. Was it used for some other purposes I do not know, but here it seems it was used like a transportation in a manner of kind of a sporty style picnic
If anybody is interested I will gladly send this photo in a very high resolution, zipped of course. Just let me know.
