What Cockpit? MK VI

[Lightning Mate]

Well, it's three-engined and Russian, but apart from that I'm baffled.

The "AIRLINERS" watermark made me trawl the site, but to no avail.

[PropSyncOff]

Planegill: Well done! It is indeed the Orlyonok Ekranoplan.... nicely done!

Over to you

[Planegill]

Here is a new challenge.

[evansb]

Victa Aircruiser 210 ?

[Planegill]

Hi Bri. Sorry, not the Aircruiser. However this aircraft was from a very similar timeframe.

[aviate1138]

Looks like an early version of a Seawind amphibian........

[Planegill]

Sorry Aviate1138. Good guess, but not the Seawind. Only one of these aircraft was built, and it is still flying.

[Planegill]

No more guesses? Another clue must be in order. The aircraft was built to test a then-novel construction material.

[evansb]

Wassmer WA-50 ?

[Planegill]

Not the Wassmer WA-50. This was built a little further north, and not by one manufacturer as such.

[aviate1138]

This is really getting to me. Been searching for ages........

How about the Paumier MP2 Baladin?

[Planegill]

Not the MP2 Baladin, whatever that is! This aircraft was built in Germany by a consortium of existing manufacturers.

[evansb]

Bolkow LFU 205 ?

[Planegill]

Yes, well done Bri. It is the LFU 205 built by Leichtflugtechnik-Union to test the new fangled fibreglass construction. It has been flown for years by the German Flight Test Organisation at Braunchsweig. More details at DLR - Flight Operations - LFU 205 You have control.

[evansb]

Thanks Planegill. That was an interesting challenge. Here is the next mystery cockpit:

[evansb]

Clue time. The CRT display was a modification of the original instrument panel. The control yoke(s) are the original configuration.

[con-pilot]

One question, does it have a dual cockpit, side by side? I've seen that control yoke setup before, but for the life of me I cannot remember on what aircraft.

Obviously a very fast aircraft. The speed bugs on the airspeed indicator are very interesting, being set at 219kts, 205kts and 164kts respectively.

[evansb]

Yes, con-pilot, side-by-side pilots. You may have seen the original cockpit in a museum.

[BSD]

Isn't it the 737 that Boeing built as a test device? Your photo is of the (second) internal cockpit, and the aeroplane was a testbed for modern avioics systems etc., in particular the Boeing SST.

Open house if I'm right.

BSD.

[evansb]

BSD is correct. The earliest "glass cockpit", a NASA-FAA Boeing 737 TCV (Terminal Configured Vehicle) was equipped with flexible workstations of enhanced instrumentation based on the Boeing 2707 SST.