What Cockpit ?
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Ohmygawd.... Somebody else please leap in with a pic. I am a true amateur in this game and just do it instead of the National Lottery. Over to the first taker!
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Bert Stiles
You have it.
It is a photograph of the one and only Pitcairn PA-39 in existance now held in the EAA Museum Oshkosh WI USA. Seven were ordered. Five PA-39s were crated and sent by ship to England (One was retained by Pitcairn-Larsen for further development in anticipation of reorders and one was retained by Wing Commander Brie for service testing from escort ships at Newport News Virginia) only two reached England the others and spare parts for the order having been lost when the ships upon which they had been placed were sunk by German submarines.
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Mel
You have it.
It is a photograph of the one and only Pitcairn PA-39 in existance now held in the EAA Museum Oshkosh WI USA. Seven were ordered. Five PA-39s were crated and sent by ship to England (One was retained by Pitcairn-Larsen for further development in anticipation of reorders and one was retained by Wing Commander Brie for service testing from escort ships at Newport News Virginia) only two reached England the others and spare parts for the order having been lost when the ships upon which they had been placed were sunk by German submarines.
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I reckon it's wunper's really. It's very close to the Cierva originals and it was the history rather than anything in the cockpit that pointed me at the Pitcairn. Interesting details you supplied MReyn.
Try this.
Try this.
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Cockpit Astro Compass Standard mounts
It has been fasinating for this non-flying bloke to see all these cockpits.
I would dearly love to see some shots of the Astro Compass and / or the mounting 'Standard' in either the Pilot's or Navigator's position.
Hope someone can come up with the goods !
I would dearly love to see some shots of the Astro Compass and / or the mounting 'Standard' in either the Pilot's or Navigator's position.
Hope someone can come up with the goods !
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Something like this one?
http://www.pbyrescue.com/Photos/2ERS0000/778.htm
http://www.pbyrescue.com/Photos/2ERS0000/778.htm
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Before we return to Bert's mystery cockpit - are these astro compasses?
http://www.maam.org/airshow/b25_cockpit.htm
http://www.arctic-mars.org/1999/FIELD99/firstAir.html
http://www.maam.org/airshow/b25_cockpit.htm
http://www.arctic-mars.org/1999/FIELD99/firstAir.html
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Yes Cringe those are astro compasses. Interesting to see one in a B-25. They seem to be into authenticity at Mid Atlantic. Nowadays they're generally used in aeroplanes which venture into areas where Variation is a large, rapidly changing number, and the tracks start to be designated in True - (or Grid I guess) and you align the gyro compass with an astronomical object instead of using magnetism. The DHC-6 installation is an example.