What Cockpit? MK VI

[stevef]

A bit of the Piper Tripacer about it. No further ideas though.

[Cubs2jets]

Bolkow Jr.?

C2j

[evansb]

Although 1950s design influences are evident, the aircraft is not of North American origin.


Note to C2j: the Bolkow Bo-208 Junior was done 11 days ago.

[Cubs2jets]

Thanks evansb,

I guess it was a case of too recently to remember. I looked on the list and didn't see it... LOL !!

C2j

[evansb]

Clue No.2: The military version was armed with an aft-facing gunner, and could carry two small bombs.

[evansb]

Clue No.3: The armed version was rare. The aircraft was also an ambulance, an aerial applicator/top dresser/crop sprayer, and many are presently glider tows.

[S'land]

PZL Wilga?

[fire-fox]

Auster J/1 Autocrat ?

or a WaG (whiled ass gess) PL-12 airtruck

[evansb]

Sorry, not the PL-12 Airtruck, nor the Auster Autocrat. It is not the PZL Wilga, but later versions of the mystery aircraft are powered by the same radial engine as the Wilga.

[India Four Two]

A Wilga engine? So since Poland was ruled out earlier, is the mystery aircraft Russian, Czech or Rumanian?

[evansb]

Czechoslovakian.

[India Four Two]

Aero L-60 Brigadýr?

[evansb]

Yes Simon, it is the Aero L-60. Powered by the 6-cyl. Praga Doris engine. You have control.

[India Four Two]

Bri,

Thanks. I had previously found the L-60 in Wikipedia but discounted it on the grounds that no Storch replacement would have had anything but "man-sized" control columns.

Aero L-60 Brigadýr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The aircraft's configuration bears a strong resemblance to the Fieseler Fi 156 "Storch" licence-produced in Czechoslovakia during and after World War II (as K-65 Čáp), and which this aircraft was intended to replace

It's Sunday evening here and my cockpit file is in the office, so Open House.

[evansb]

[sycamore]

Japanese,perhaps ?

[evansb]

Not Japanese. During development, the aircraft was redesignated, hence it has two names.

[wz662]

That sweep of the fuselage line reminds me of a Curtiss design but the canopy framing dosen't.

[evansb]

It is not from Curtiss, but the company was in competition with Curtiss.

[evansb]

Several versions of the aircraft were produced for different customers. The photo shows an early version with side-opening canopy, and left-side door, but production versions had a one-piece sliding canopy. The aircraft sold better abroad than domestically.