What Cockpit? MK VI

[Planegill]

Here is the next challenge. Sorry I only have this small photo.

[evansb]

I'll guess a Mosscraft M.A.2 ?

[Planegill]

Sorry Bri, not the Mosscraft M.A.2.

[evansb]

Okay, my second and final guess, the Parnall 382 Heck III ?

[aviate1138]

DH 94 Moth Minor?

[Planegill]

Sorry I was away with work and forgot to take my internet card. No, it is not the Heck or the Moth Minor. Right country though.

[aviate1138]

Could it possibly be a Dart Kitten? [Not holding one's breath!]

[MReyn24050]

Planegill's challenge

Fairey Primer perhaps?
Mel

[aviate1138]

Maybe a Chilton Monoplane? Hmmmmmm.........

[Planegill]

Not the Dart Kitten, Chilton Monoplane or the Fairey Primer.
Only one of these aircraft was made.

[MReyn24050]

Planegill's challenge

Hillson Helvellyn per chance?
Mel

[Planegill]

Sorry Mel, not the Hillson. This plane was made by a company which is now famous for making just a part of an aircraft.

[MReyn24050]

Planegill's challenge

Pure guess the Bristol Racer G-EBDR?
Mel

[Planegill]

Not the Bristol racer. The company is not famous for making aeroplanes.

[MReyn24050]

Another guess the Britten-Norman BN-1F?

[wz662]

Luton Buzzard II?

[Planegill]

Not the BN-1F or the Luton Buzzard. This company is still going strongly making a specific item of equipment on an aircraft. In their early days they made a series of prototypes, none of which went into production.

[evansb]

Sounds like Martin-Baker, but the MB.1, a one-off low-wing retractable gear monoplane had side-by-side seating. This challenge is quite a puzzler.

[Planegill]

Yes, it is the Martin Baker MB.1. I don't know that much about the aircraft, but the only photo I have seen looks like a tandem seater. The photo came from a company brochure. Unfortunately it is a scan from an ad selling the brochure, which I missed out on. Hence I only have the small version.

[FlightlessParrot]

The Martin-Baker site has a page on the MB 1 (which is pretty clearly the source of the Wikipedia entry), with some photos. Clearly the MB 1 was a tandem two-seater, but there had been an earlier design, also called MB 1, for a side-by-side two seater with the engine behind the occupants, and the shaft going between pilot and passenger. "No, don't put your lunch there."

Martin Baker - Ejection seat and escape system technology