What Cockpit? MK VI
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Good morning Mel, 
I can see what looks like a pair of lifting eyes ahead of the cockpit, but no sign of struts, so is it a low-wing catapault-launched float equipped mailplane like the Hienkel He.12 or He.58 ??
No sucess in locating any cockpit pictures.
Going to be very busy today, so regret it will have to be Open House in the unlikely event of being correct!
I can see what looks like a pair of lifting eyes ahead of the cockpit, but no sign of struts, so is it a low-wing catapault-launched float equipped mailplane like the Hienkel He.12 or He.58 ??
No sucess in locating any cockpit pictures.
Going to be very busy today, so regret it will have to be Open House in the unlikely event of being correct!
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Trevor. The photograph is perhaps a little misleading, may have been taken during the build. According to my source this aircraft is a biplane, its type number is between the He.12 and He.58. It was designed as a general purpose biplane employed as a trainer and also used in the light bombing role.
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Thanks Mel,
I was way off there, but it was a lot easier to find with your latest clues
Looking at the time, I'll leave it for now, my lunch break is over and I'll be lucky to total three quarters of an hour on the forum today and I'm out tonight!
I was way off there, but it was a lot easier to find with your latest clues
Looking at the time, I'll leave it for now, my lunch break is over and I'll be lucky to total three quarters of an hour on the forum today and I'm out tonight!
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That is the bird David. 
. You have control. I gave the generous clue because it was dragging on a bit and it was going to be a case of attrition for every Heinkel produced pre WWII.
. You have control. I gave the generous clue because it was dragging on a bit and it was going to be a case of attrition for every Heinkel produced pre WWII.
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Thanks Mel - the clue made it just like SC.
This one has been done before, but I am unable to locate it on the page number from your list. In any case I feel it's a different model.....
This one has been done before, but I am unable to locate it on the page number from your list. In any case I feel it's a different model.....
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Evening Mel,
Been a busy day and not had much chance to look for this one!
The cockpit looks offset to the left and is that a gun breech support on the right?
Also, there looks to be a hole through the bulkhead and it's quite light through there with what appears to be part of a round coaming of an opening immediately forward of the cockpit, or is that something just laying there?
Been a busy day and not had much chance to look for this one!
The cockpit looks offset to the left and is that a gun breech support on the right?
Also, there looks to be a hole through the bulkhead and it's quite light through there with what appears to be part of a round coaming of an opening immediately forward of the cockpit, or is that something just laying there?
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I do not think the cockpit is offset, I think that may be an optical illusion. That is the gun breech to the right and the bracket is the support for the gun. I believe the oval hole is a cutout in the bulkhead.
Looking at the Avia quiz photograph I believe the vehicle on the right is a Nash Six Tourer 1927 which helps to support that the aircraft is from the USA.
Looking at the Avia quiz photograph I believe the vehicle on the right is a Nash Six Tourer 1927 which helps to support that the aircraft is from the USA.
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That is the one Graham . I see you too have a copy of Jane's all the world's Aircraft 1919. I recently got mine on ebay. It cost me more in postage and packing than for the book itself.
Here is a similar type.
You have control.
. I see you too have a copy of Jane's all the world's Aircraft 1919. I recently got mine on ebay. It cost me more in postage and packing than for the book itself.Here is a similar type.
You have control.
Thanks Mel. That was a browsing fluke of a find. Please feel free to use more cockpit photos from that publication.
That's disgusting. I paid a small fortune for it in 1977. 
Here's the next....
I recently got mine on ebay. It cost me more in postage and packing than for the book itself.
Here's the next....
