What Cockpit? MK VI

[Noyade]

Thanks Mel
It's 0330 hrs. Flexistowe F.2A?

[MReyn24050]

Graeme. You are up early. Not the Flexistowe F.2A but you are not far away.

[evansb]

Curtiss H-12 ?

[MReyn24050]

Not the Curtiss H-12 Bri, but Curtiss did have connection with this aircraft. Will be off line for a couple of hours.

[SincoTC]

Good evening Mel,

My first look in for a couple of days and looks like I wasn't the only absentee!!

Just getting something to eat so I can't do much searching right now, but looking at the various comments and clues, I wonder if it's the Felixtowe F.5L ?

It was a twin, is "near" to Graeme's last shot, an English flying boat based on a Curtiss design and subsequently built in the USA and Canada at the tail end of the 1910's. No immediate hits with a cockpit photo though, it did have other names in the US, but I'm off to the kitchen now so can't follow up that line of search !

[MReyn24050]

You win again Trevor. It is indeed the Felixstowe 5.FL

The twin-engine F5L was one of the Felixstowe F series of flying boats extensively redesigned by John Cyril Porte at the Seaplane Experimental Station, Felixstowe, England during the First World War, from an original design by the American designer Glenn Curtiss.
The Naval Aircraft Factory further redesigned the Felixstowe F.5 for American production with numerous modifications made, including fitting 400 hp Liberty 12A engines. The American-built version was also known as the Curtiss F5L and (in civilian operation) as the Aeromarine 75.
The F5L was built by the US Naval Aircraft Factory (137) , Curtiss (60) and Canadian Aeroplanes Limited (30). Some were converted for civilian use by the Aeromarine Plane and Motor Company in 1919.

You have control.

[SincoTC]

Thanks Mel,

Dunno what's going on with Prune! I posted this a few minutes ago and it appeared on the previous page, timed at 2:14 this afternoon !! I see Kitbag's post was out of sequence too. I have deleted the original and will try again !

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



Edited to say I've just had big issues posting on the Challenge thread. Three tries all in the wrong place!! How I got this one in at the second attempt I'm not sure but I see my original has re-appeared, timed at 2:14 pm!!
Edir2, just noticed that my edit was correctly timestamped and that the Prune clock is now correct, maybe the trouble is sorted

[Noyade]

Hi Trevor.

Looks (to me) like plate steel welded together at top right. We're talking serious armour plating here? And it looks like (at top left) there is 'nothing' forward of the cockpit, certainly no engine. First thought was the Hs-129 but the internet said "no". I'm thinking of the attack version of the Fw-189?

See here...

http://aircraft-cockpits.com/images/...t%20layout.jpg

[SincoTC]

Evening Graeme,

You've got it mate, it is the Focke-Wulf Fw.189C (Ground Attack)

Noyade has Control

[Noyade]

Thanks Trevor. Sorry for the delay.

[Noyade]

Big Saturday Clue.

[Kitbag]

That is a Westland Widgeon helicopter and I claim my 5 Guineas.

The cockpit though looks like a Widgeon III- maybe this one?

[Noyade]

Westland Widgeon III. Your conrtol Kitbag.

This machine, VH-UHU....it was at one point the oldest registered aircraft in Australia...

[Kitbag]

Thank you. I have nothing so OH

[evansb]

Here is the next mystery cockpit:

[twochai]

The Boeing SST (that never was)!

[evansb]

twochai is correct. The Boeing 2707 SST. Your turn.

[twochai]

Sorry: My downloading skills are for nought tonight. I must declare Open House.

[MReyn24050]

Here is your challenge image twochai:-

[sycamore]

Dromader..?