What Cockpit? MK VI

[Noyade]

but powered by R-R,Falcon

Well spotted sycamore. Didn't notice that.

Back to looking/stabbing then....

[evansb]

Sorry, not the Vickers Vancouver, Vedette or Viking.. Are you sure they are RR Falcon motors?

[Noyade]

Are you sure they are RR Falcon motors?

I'm not sure of anything mate. But I can now see the "Rolls Royce" plaque.

Canadian connection

So the connection could be something else, and this is a non-Canadian aircraft?

[evansb]

The mystery aircraft has a significant place in Canadian aviation history.
The first example of this aircraft was not Rolls Royce powered, but subsequent production aircraft were powered by the original Rolls Royce Eagle aero engine.

[SincoTC]

From the clues so far, I guess it could be the Felixstowe F.3 ??

[evansb]

SincoTC is correct. In 1920, the Canadian Air Board sponsored a project to conduct the first ever Trans Canada flight. The leg from Riviere-du-Loup, Quebec, to Winnipeg, Manitoba was flown by LtCol. Leckie and Major Hobbs in the Felixstowe F.3 to determine the feasability of such flights for future air mail and passenger service.

Your turn.

[SincoTC]

Thanks Brian,

Here's the next cockpit to track down.

[sycamore]

Is it rocket powered..? German perhaps..?

[SincoTC]

German yes, rocket powered no!

[aviate1138]

I'll have a stab with the Fi-103?

[MReyn24050]

I think it is the Blohm & Voss BV 40.

[SincoTC]

Sorry Aviate, not the Fi-103

You think correctly Mel, it is the Blohm & Voss BV 40 Glider-Fighter of 1944



MReyn24050 has control

[MReyn24050]

Thanks Trevor.
Here is the next one:-

[evansb]

Curtiss H-12 ?

[MReyn24050]

No takers, I did not think it was that difficult. It first flew late 1910s.

[SincoTC]

Thanks Mel,

Nothing else prepared at the moment, but this one I had should be an easy one!

[evansb]

Vickers Viking ?

[MReyn24050]

Not the Vickers Viking Bri. Similar type of aircraft but this was a twin.

[Noyade]

British Mel?

[MReyn24050]

The background regarding this aircraft is mixed. Both the British and the USA had a hand in it.