What Cockpit? MK VI
The `Bridge` of a Beverley...
Open House from me; actually the `telegraphs`( ding-ding ,full ahead/astern ) are on either side of the cockpit.and the steering `tiller` is the large knob at the back of the centre console, lift it up/out and it`s the `arm`...Syc..
The control `column `wheel` is actually like a pair of `high -rise handlebars on a chopper,and pilots looked like`hells angels` after flight with long beards as it had taken so long to get anywhere...!
The control `column `wheel` is actually like a pair of `high -rise handlebars on a chopper,and pilots looked like`hells angels` after flight with long beards as it had taken so long to get anywhere...!
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It is indeed the REP.1 as designed and flown by Robert Esnault-Pelterie 
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Robert Esnault-Pelterie commenced testing the REP.1 in September 1907, initially flying the aircraft as a glider before attempting powered flights.
You have control
.Robert Esnault-Pelterie commenced testing the REP.1 in September 1907, initially flying the aircraft as a glider before attempting powered flights.
You have control
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Thanks Mel.
Poor man frightened himself so much [having had a serious 'moment' including painful personal injury] that he never trusted himself at the controls, ever again.
Onward and upward and another frontier to cross......
Shouldn't take long.......
Poor man frightened himself so much [having had a serious 'moment' including painful personal injury] that he never trusted himself at the controls, ever again.
Onward and upward and another frontier to cross......
Shouldn't take long.......
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Ha! More than I thought!
Thunderceptor trumps my X1A I reckon.
But what a nice looking ship for a bastardised harrumfrodite like that!
Was this a rare case where looks didn't work good?
Thunderceptor trumps my X1A I reckon.
But what a nice looking ship for a bastardised harrumfrodite like that!
Was this a rare case where looks didn't work good?
Has to be the X-1B, 481385, different cockpit, and stick.. Open House ?
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sycamore has it. Well done and to Mr Button for so nearly getting it....
X1B had a slightly different wing and 300 temperature sensors......
"The X-1B completed a total of 27 flights. A notable achievement was the installation of a system of small reaction rockets used for directional control, making the X-1B the first aircraft to fly with this sophisticated control system, later used in the X-15. The X-1B is now at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base at Dayton, Ohio."
Open House it is then.
X1B had a slightly different wing and 300 temperature sensors......
"The X-1B completed a total of 27 flights. A notable achievement was the installation of a system of small reaction rockets used for directional control, making the X-1B the first aircraft to fly with this sophisticated control system, later used in the X-15. The X-1B is now at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base at Dayton, Ohio."
Open House it is then.
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Well, on the basis of zero knowledge but going on the clues, I'd thought possibly so, and searched a bit. There's a photo on Wikimedia Commons that shows a rather different state of the panel--anyone want to comment?
File:Bell X-1B cockpit 2 USAF.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
(I'm not sure I've got my tone clear in that--I am not at all grumbling about anything, and I did find, eventually, the pic that was set as the challenge.)
File:Bell X-1B cockpit 2 USAF.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
(I'm not sure I've got my tone clear in that--I am not at all grumbling about anything, and I did find, eventually, the pic that was set as the challenge.)
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Honest guv, I was not selling a dummy, I used a NASA pic as my guide. There were two X-1Bs and one was destroyed. As the other did 27 flights maybe it gained extra stuff on the way. Certainly looks busier.... Anyway here is the NASA pic.
