What Cockpit? MK VI
Mystery Instrument Panel
Not exactly a cockpit although presumably this instrument panel was once in one. The owner has asked me to identify the aircraft type it came from. The unusual shape suggests that it's not a generic basic six. The only information known to the owner comes from a tag stating that it was last overhauled by Kingsford Smith Aviation at Bankstown (Australia) in 1969. The instruments are of American manufacture. It is not known what instrument once occupied the vacant hole. The panel was originally thought to have been from a sailplane but the ASI suggests otherwise.
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Unless the missing gauge is a variometer, and I doubt it, the wear pattern would suggest the panel is an instructional/calibration panel. It is unusual though, given the vintage instruments.
To resurrect this once superb thread, I hereby post this challenge:
To resurrect this once superb thread, I hereby post this challenge:
Your turn.
This is a tough one! Obviously a 'bush' plane, but it's got me stumped.
It must be British (controls terminology, braking by handlever, etc.), could never have been operated on floats (no access door on right hand side)?? Certainly not the Lysander.
What other clues??
It must be British (controls terminology, braking by handlever, etc.), could never have been operated on floats (no access door on right hand side)?? Certainly not the Lysander.
What other clues??
I reckon that my Grandfather would have had a small part in its construction through his work in this company's pattern shop at their Newton Heath factory.
The number of British, single engine cabin biplane types is quite small.
The number of British, single engine cabin biplane types is quite small.
Oh heck. I was obviously too cocky, knowing what it was (don't ask me how) but not having a cockpit to offer up. I'll have to declare it open house while I go and look for one (or two).
