What Cockpit? MK VI

[Harley Quinn]

Not a bomber or pax either looking at the way the fuselage is laid out. You been looking at more flying boats?

[SincoTC]

You been looking at more flying boats?

Thought Graeme might still need something floaty

[MReyn24050]

Dornier Do26 I believe.

[SincoTC]

Dornier Do26 I believe

You believe correctly Mel



You have control

[MReyn24050]

Thanks Trevor here is the next one:-

[evansb]

Boeing P-29 ?

[MReyn24050]

Bri. Not the Boeing P-29 according to my source which lists it as the XF7B-1. However the aircraft were I understand so very similar I am sure the cockpit layout was the same.
Therefore you have control.

[evansb]

Thanks Mel. I debated which Boeing to call it. The cockpit in your photo just didn't appear to me as experimental. Here is the next mystery cockpit:

[Harley Quinn]

Was going to suggest the big brother to the Dragonfly's in the background but there seems to be too many vertical pillars in the windscreen, so...

Prototype Sikorsky S-55?

[evansb]

Harley is correct. The photo is of a Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw, a.k.a S-55.

Your turn.

[India Four Two]

Boeing P-29 according to my source which lists it as the XF7B-1

Thread drift. In Mel's photo, what are the two (presumably engine) instruments on the left, and also the one below the altimeter and the one marked Down? Any ideas?

[evansb]

I'll hazard a guess. The "DOWN" instrument is for the landing gear, given the novelty of retractable gear at the time. Also relatively new was the radio, situated on the floor, centre, just ahead of the joystick base. As the ship was radio equipped, I think the far left gauges are probably for volt and amperes (generator) output.

[Harley Quinn]

Apologies for the delay, haven't checked Mel's list yet to see if this has been done before:



Well, seems it has but the original is no longer displaying.

[MReyn24050]

I believe this is the cockpit of the Russian version of the US Space shuttle i.e.
Buran spacecraft.
Mel

[Harley Quinn]

You believe right. First shown here 3 years ago!

YHC

[MReyn24050]

Thanks Henry. Here is the next one, a few years older than Henry's

[evansb]

Is it a Heinkel ? How many were built ?

[MReyn24050]

Bri, you are correct about it being from the Heinkel stable. It was produced in numbers.

[aviate1138]

Was it the He 112, the "Forgotten Fighter"?

[evansb]

Heinkel He.100 ?