What Cockpit? MK VI
How about this? Extra marks for where and when.
A FedEx pilot checking the mail is secure `somewhere in USA `?
one11 and Kitbag,
Yes, it's a Wright but which model?
Sycamore,
Not FedEx but closer than you might have thought - this is probably the first ad-hoc air freight charter ever.
Not Kittyhawk and the pilot is not Wilbur or Orville.
Yes, it's a Wright but which model?
Sycamore,
Not FedEx but closer than you might have thought - this is probably the first ad-hoc air freight charter ever.
Not Kittyhawk and the pilot is not Wilbur or Orville.
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Wright Model B? Farnum Fish delivering 50 lbs of silk from Chicago's Cicero Flying Field to Milwaukee on May 25th, 1912?
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The Bs have it.
bri,
yes, it's a Wright B Flyer:
You are right about the silk, but I'm pretty sure the pilot is Phil Parmelee. He is doing his pre-takeoff checks - note the props are rotating. The caption on my photo reads (in part):
This is supported by a photo of Phil (Philip Orin Parmelee), wearing the same distinctive jacket.
I had been planning to use this photo below (cropped to remove the disctinctively grim-faced Wilbur) taken at Hunaudieres racetrack, Le Mans in 1908:
but I discovered that windriver had previously posted a sketch (http://www.pprune.org/3037927-post385.html) which is clearly derived from the Le Mans photo:
All of my photos are taken from a really good book, which I was given some time ago, but only recently got around to reading - "On Great White Wings - The Wright Brothers and the Race for Flight" by Fred Culick and Spencer Dunmore, McArthur and Company, Toronto, 2001.
Over to you in Sunny Alberta.
yes, it's a Wright B Flyer:
You are right about the silk, but I'm pretty sure the pilot is Phil Parmelee. He is doing his pre-takeoff checks - note the props are rotating. The caption on my photo reads (in part):
Morehouse-Martens, a department store in Columbus, Ohio, hired pilot Phil Parmalee to deliver rolls of silk from Dayton in the passenger seat of his Wright Model B -- then promptly sold the fabric as souvenirs and made a handsome profit.
I had been planning to use this photo below (cropped to remove the disctinctively grim-faced Wilbur) taken at Hunaudieres racetrack, Le Mans in 1908:
but I discovered that windriver had previously posted a sketch (http://www.pprune.org/3037927-post385.html) which is clearly derived from the Le Mans photo:
All of my photos are taken from a really good book, which I was given some time ago, but only recently got around to reading - "On Great White Wings - The Wright Brothers and the Race for Flight" by Fred Culick and Spencer Dunmore, McArthur and Company, Toronto, 2001.
Over to you in Sunny Alberta.
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Thanks Simon. Yes, sunny and windy today. Determining the Wright 'B' model was easy, the pilot's name and type of cargo not so easy. Why was silk such a time sensitive material? I read about express trains carrying silk in the early 1900s as well. What was the rush? Back on track, here is the next mystery cockpit:
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8 engines, civilian airliner type crew from late 40's early 50's. Got to admit I'm having trouble working out what's outside the windows.
Is it an artist impression of the Spruce Goose, Hughes H4?
Is it an artist impression of the Spruce Goose, Hughes H4?
Or a civil version of the B-52 ?
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Sorry, not a civil B-52. Not a flying boat. The craft was designed in the late 1950s, and had defensive armament. The photo is a still frame from a film. Interior reflections are visible on the cockpit windows. Yes, the crew looks civilian, but they were not.
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It was a serious design evansb? It looks too trekky to me, with the panels of the F/Es (or whatever they are) looking like something out of Thunderbirds! I'm struggling to belive that it was real, or intended to be serious. RR
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Quite perceptive RR. The cockpit was made for a sci-fi movie in 1957. It is not attached to a real aircraft by any means. If you know the name of the movie, you can determine the name of the aircraft.