What Cockpit? MK VI

[sabredog]

Japanese,Mel? Nakajima type?

[MReyn24050]

Sorry Sabredog this one was not Japanese. The aircraft was designed and built in Europe. First impression of this aircraft can be somewhat deceiving.
Mel

[skytrain10]

Mel, I'm probably barking up the wrong tree, but without instrumentation I'm wondering if this is an early jet?
Or, deviating off track again, would it be a Caproni N1?

[MReyn24050]

Ken. You are not deviating off track. It is indeed the cockpit of the Caproni Campini N.1.


However

As designed by Campini, the aircraft did not have a jet engine in the sense that we know them today. Rather, a conventional 500 kW (670 hp) Isotta Fraschini L. 121/R.C. 40 piston engine was used to drive a compressor, which forced air into a combustion chamber where it was mixed with fuel and ignited. The exhaust produced by this combustion was to drive the aircraft forward. Campini called this configuration a "thermojet," but the term "motorjet" is in common usage today for this arrangement since thermojet is now used to refer to a particular type of pulsejet (an unrelated form of jet engine). It has also been described as a ducted fan.[1]

You have control.
Mel

[skytrain10]

Hi Mel, excellent challenge . Yes I had realised after posting that of course the Caproni was not actually jet powered...although it looks like it should be!

Here we go:

[sycamore]

A bit of `French`..?

[skytrain10]

Not French sycamore.

[skytrain10]

This one needs to go soon as I will be away for a few days.

So a clue. American and produced in some numbers. Surprised we've not had it before.

[sycamore]

F-94 Starfire..

[skytrain10]

Not the F-94 syscamore, but the right era - a late 1940's design.

[sycamore]

Single-seat,or tandem,Navy or AirForce..?.

and I presume it`s a single-jet..

[skytrain10]

Single seat - navy (and marines).

And yes, single jet.

[skytrain10]

This one has to go soon......try a well known manufacturer of USN aircraft!

[sycamore]

M-D F3H Demon..?

[dash7fan]

Grumman F9F Panther??

[skytrain10]

Sorry not the Demon sycamore, but....

dash7fan has it. It is the Grumman F9F Panther. Well done

dash7fan has control

[dash7fan]

Thanks skytrain, open house pls

[evansb]

Here is the next mystery cockpit:

[MReyn24050]

Interesting looking aircraft, Bri. Are we looking at the co-pilot in his seat behind the pilot?

[VX275]

Looking at the round fenestration in the nose I presume its an early pressurised cabin.
So I'll hazard a guess at Vicker Wellington VI