What Cockpit? MK III
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Originally Posted by Philthy
Stinson Jr S?
This is a Stinson but a bit earlier than the Junior S, However the Junior S was a direct descendent of the Stinson Detrioter SM-1 so I will accept your answer. You have control.
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bloch 220 cockpit was a Potez 62 cockpit....
I am back after a long connection failure just to say that DH 106 was right when he was suspicious about the picture of the Bloch 220.
Sorry Mel, that was a Potez 62.
the Potez 62 was put into service in 1935 by Air France and was powered by two Gnome-Rhone 870 hp engines on the Europe and Far East network.
Another version with two 720 hp Hispano Suiza engines was used on the South America network.
High wings with the two engines underneath and retractable landing gear into the engines nacels.
I have really to learn about posting pictures !!
Sorry Mel, that was a Potez 62.
the Potez 62 was put into service in 1935 by Air France and was powered by two Gnome-Rhone 870 hp engines on the Europe and Far East network.
Another version with two 720 hp Hispano Suiza engines was used on the South America network.
High wings with the two engines underneath and retractable landing gear into the engines nacels.
I have really to learn about posting pictures !!
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Originally Posted by mikl
I am back after a long connection failure just to say that DH 106 was right when he was suspicious about the picture of the Bloch 220.
Sorry Mel, that was a Potez 62.
the Potez 62 was put into service in 1935 by Air France and was powered by two Gnome-Rhone 870 hp engines on the Europe and Far East network.
Another version with two 720 hp Hispano Suiza engines was used on the South America network.
High wings with the two engines underneath and retractable landing gear into the engines nacels.
I have really to learn about posting pictures !!
Sorry Mel, that was a Potez 62.
the Potez 62 was put into service in 1935 by Air France and was powered by two Gnome-Rhone 870 hp engines on the Europe and Far East network.
Another version with two 720 hp Hispano Suiza engines was used on the South America network.
High wings with the two engines underneath and retractable landing gear into the engines nacels.
I have really to learn about posting pictures !!
The cockpit shown at Post #550 was as far as I am concerned that of the Bloch 220 and came from a very good source. Also see posts #556,557 and 559 the 3 view drawing shows the cockpit window formation as shown in the photograph.
Potez 62
Note the depth of the side window far deeper than that in the photograph in my original post #550.
The next is a photograph from a FranceSim.com forum showing progress on the software for the Bloch220.This totally supports Post#550 being the Bloch 220's cockpit.
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Originally Posted by Philthy
...Boeing E75 Stearperson VH-JQY to be exact.
Originally Posted by MReyn24050
Note the depth of the side window far deeper than that in the photograph in my original post #550.
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Here's a pic of Potez 62's cockpit for comparison:
Source: http://www.public-histoire.com/favoris/airfrance.html
Source: http://www.public-histoire.com/favoris/airfrance.html
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Thank you for that it certainly proves it was not a Potez 62. I am postive it was the Bloch 220. I think the photograph of the aircraft I first displayed had been touched up to improve its quality but an error was made when touching up the cockpit area.
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Thank you for that it certainly proves it was not a Potez 62. I am postive it was the Bloch 220. I think the photograph of the aircraft I first displayed had been touched up to improve its quality but an error was made when touching up the cockpit area.
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Originally Posted by LowNSlow
Can somebody else post a pic please as I have none that are sufficiently challenging for such a cerebral audience!
Mel