What Cockpit? MK VI
EvansB, I am sorry again - it is not the 154 design, but You are 99% there. As You seem to be the only one involved at the moment; shall I post the solution in order to get the thread going again?
So be it then. Gentlemen, if You agree, I will wait until I am back home tonight - maybe there is someone feeling like taking a guess until then. And if the cockpit is not named, I will post the solution and some pictures of the aircraft it was installed in.
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I've unearthed a plan of a regional airliner from Herr Doktor Pieter Korrell's archive, the type 155, similar to the VFW 614. Is this the mystery ship?
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You never cease to impress me, EvansB - you really must have a sizeable vault full of airplane documentation. Indeed, it is the 155 jetliner design by VEB Flugzeugwerk Dresden that was supposed to be a much more potent replacement of the Il-14P. They came up with a turboprop powered version and also one jet powered variant which seems to have been liked better as they even built a full scale mockup of it: 
Apparently the left wing is missing for some reasons; the fuselage beside it belongs to the mockup of the 153A twin turboprop airliner that also got stuck on the drawing board. Here is a three-view of the plane as it was supposed to look: 
In 1961, all these planes fell victim to the cancellation of the whole GDR airliner industry - it simply was not feasible for the country to build large airliners on its own. Your controls...
Apparently the left wing is missing for some reasons; the fuselage beside it belongs to the mockup of the 153A twin turboprop airliner that also got stuck on the drawing board. Here is a three-view of the plane as it was supposed to look: In 1961, all these planes fell victim to the cancellation of the whole GDR airliner industry - it simply was not feasible for the country to build large airliners on its own. Your controls...
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Absolute first class challenge 
My brain is still bleeding
The concept of the regional jetliner seems to predate the regional turboprop! Shades of the SAAB 340, Jetstream 41, YS-11, Avro 748, and ATP are visible in the PK-153-A design. Quite prescient.
Gents, here is the next challenge:
My brain is still bleeding The concept of the regional jetliner seems to predate the regional turboprop! Shades of the SAAB 340, Jetstream 41, YS-11, Avro 748, and ATP are visible in the PK-153-A design. Quite prescient. Gents, here is the next challenge:
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Well done Tu.114
You came very close to stumping the panel. I think that would have been a first for What Cockpit.
