What Cockpit? MK VI
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As I guess, I would venture that it made a long flight, maybe in a few jits and jots, across a large body of water more or less in May 1919. This would have been shortly before a VV made the same flight the following month, but the VV did it all in one go. 
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The Curtis NC 4 meets the criteria. 4 built and the first aircraft to fly across the Atlantic.
Open house if I am right; travelling at the moment and no access to photo library.
Open house if I am right; travelling at the moment and no access to photo library.
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"Curtiss(?) Challenge"
If it is indeed a Curtiss, can I recommend this page which demonstrates the devillish cunning of evansb's challenge?
http://www.msacomputer.com/FlyingBoa...s/Curtiss.html shows the extent of the Curtiss company's flying boat development - even the author admits at the end that the early models "Need another year or two to sort them out...."
Well done!
http://www.msacomputer.com/FlyingBoa...s/Curtiss.html shows the extent of the Curtiss company's flying boat development - even the author admits at the end that the early models "Need another year or two to sort them out...."
Well done!
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A real stab in the dark from an amateur like me.
Based on a picture I have which shows a former of almost identical shape behind the navigators table.…
The inside of a Wellington ?
Based on a picture I have which shows a former of almost identical shape behind the navigators table.…
The inside of a Wellington ?
Correct. Vickers Valetta T3. A Navigation trainer at RAF Thorney Island taken in 1952. These aircraft were used as flying classrooms - note all the astrodomes!
The Varsity has been done before, but the Valetta is a different type being the same airframe but with a different undercarriage layout.
Again, apologies for the breach in protocol. Jenkins, you have control.
The Varsity has been done before, but the Valetta is a different type being the same airframe but with a different undercarriage layout.
Again, apologies for the breach in protocol. Jenkins, you have control.
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Grrrrrr. spent ages finding a suitable one. As soon as I'm ready to post, pipped at the post. Well played sir.
Mel, please may we have the link to previous cockpits again?
Mel, please may we have the link to previous cockpits again?
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