What Cockpit? MK VI
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ozbeowulf and windriver. Sorry not the Blackburn Kangaroo nor the Handley Page W8. This aircraft was not as large as the Blackburn or the Handley Page. I should add as well that it was far from being successful.
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kitbag. This bird was about the same size as the de Havilland 10 Amiens. A further clue being that the aircraft featured in my challenge did not go into production.
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Not the Beardmore Inverness, however they did have something in common, and it wasn't the sails, but were powered by the same make of engines.
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Not the Armstrong Whitworth Awana although it did had the same engines as the challenge aircraft but she was a very much larger aircraft, in fact the Awana was larger than the Blackburn Kangaroo and the Handley Page W8. The Awana also flew 4 years after the challenge aircraft.
To recap the challenge aircraft was a British aircraft built late 1910s but not built by:-
Armstrong Whitworth
Beardmore
Blackburn
Bristol
de Havilland
Handley Page
or Tarrant
She was a twin engined aircraft but did not go into production.
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Not the Armstrong Whitworth Awana although it did had the same engines as the challenge aircraft but she was a very much larger aircraft, in fact the Awana was larger than the Blackburn Kangaroo and the Handley Page W8. The Awana also flew 4 years after the challenge aircraft.
To recap the challenge aircraft was a British aircraft built late 1910s but not built by:-
Armstrong Whitworth
Beardmore
Blackburn
Bristol
de Havilland
Handley Page
or Tarrant
She was a twin engined aircraft but did not go into production.
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evansb steals the thunder again.
It is indeed the cockpit of the Boulton and Paul's P.8 Atlantic.
The Boulton and Paul P.8 was built from the outset as a contestant for the Daily Mail prize for the first nonstop transatlantic crossing.Only two prototypes were built.Unfortunately the first P.8 crashed on its first flight after an engine cut-out. The second P.8 was finally completed as an airliner prototype and test bed but no orders were received for it.
Bri, you have control.
It is indeed the cockpit of the Boulton and Paul's P.8 Atlantic.The Boulton and Paul P.8 was built from the outset as a contestant for the Daily Mail prize for the first nonstop transatlantic crossing.Only two prototypes were built.Unfortunately the first P.8 crashed on its first flight after an engine cut-out. The second P.8 was finally completed as an airliner prototype and test bed but no orders were received for it.
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Whoops! (Thinking aloud, not fishing yet) Looks like it's got 2 sets of engine instruments and only basic flight instruments.
What I would like to know though... are the 'chess pawns' on the plank part of the aircraft structure or the building in which the aircraft is housed?
What I would like to know though... are the 'chess pawns' on the plank part of the aircraft structure or the building in which the aircraft is housed?
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Excellent challenge, evansb...
Except for the two engines...or, at least, two magneto switches... I'd wonder if this was the Bell XV-3 or the Transcendental Model 1-G, but I may be looking in the wrong category.
I understand this aircraft is not a helicopter, but was it an experiment in the VTOL/Tilt Wing field?
[Edited to remove erroneous "Model 200" reference and to add the Transcendental example]
Except for the two engines...or, at least, two magneto switches... I'd wonder if this was the Bell XV-3 or the Transcendental Model 1-G, but I may be looking in the wrong category.
I understand this aircraft is not a helicopter, but was it an experiment in the VTOL/Tilt Wing field?
[Edited to remove erroneous "Model 200" reference and to add the Transcendental example]
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