What Cockpit? MK VI

[Noyade]

Squarish fuselage - radial engine -old and in a museum?
American?

[sabredog]

Yes, to the first two questions and the last one,Graeme, but as far as I know it is a refurbishment destined for a Military Museum in a different State.

[MReyn24050]

Curtiss F6C-4 I believe.

[sabredog]

Correct once again,Mel, well done.
It is a Curtiss F6C-4 of the U.S.Marine Corps;

YHC, Mel.

[MReyn24050]

Thanks Terry. Here is the next:-

[Noyade]

Looks very odd mate.....

Not some sort of submersible?

Gondola?

[MReyn24050]

Hi Graeme
This aircraft was neither a submersible nor is a gondola. The aircraft was quite advance for the year it was built.

[Noyade]

Fascinating. Makes me think of the Benalla Rocket in Victoria.



All that framework must have made it hard to see out?

Thinking French. Something like the Amiot 356 with the He.111 style of cockpit but I can't fathom what that hole above the pilot is? If it was a deleted gunner's position he would be standing on the pilots shoulders?
Observation bubble?

[VX275]

Is it one of the German giant bombers of WW1?

[MReyn24050]

Greame.
It is a gunners position but not French. VX275 is in the right are. It was large and German but not a Bomber.

[skytrain10]

Mel, some variation on the Arado Ar.232?

In case correct will have to be Open House as will be traveling for the next few hours.

[MReyn24050]

Not the Arado Ar.232 Ken. This aircraft was designed at the start of WWI.

[sabredog]

Dornier Rs.I

[MReyn24050]

You have it Terry the Dornier RS1

The Dornier Rs.I was a large three-engined biplane flying boat, designed by Claudius Dornier and built during 1914-5 on the German side of Lake Constance. It never progressed beyond taxi-ing trials as it was destroyed in a storm. The Rs.I was completed by October 1915 and rolled out at Seemos for trials. On 23 October, during a taxi test, the port propeller and/or gearbox parted company with the aircraft causing damage to the gearbox mountings and the upper wing. The opportunity was taken to move the outboard engines into nacelles identical to the centre engine and mount them between the wings, on an independent structure with cat-walks for engineers to attend to engines in flight. This gave much better clearance for the propellers from spray, which was very likely to have been the cause of the port gearbox/propeller incident. Taxi trials recommenced but with little success till on 21 December 1915 a Foehn wind blew up during trials. Unable to beach the giant flying boat, attempts were made to ride out the storm on the lake, but the moorings gave and the Rs.I was dashed to pieces on the lakeside rocks. This giant aircraft is noteworthy for the construction materials used, let alone the sheer size of it, being the largest aeroplane in the world at the time of its launch

Your control.

[sabredog]

Thank you,Mel. A great challenge.
Something a little less demanding;

[sycamore]

Should have gone to `Specsavers` ,Sabredog....!

[sabredog]

Best to throw this one away.
Open House

[MReyn24050]

Surprised there were no takers Terry. It is the Fairchild FC-2

[MReyn24050]

I am sure this one will cause no proplem:-

[sabredog]

Indeed it is the Fairchild Fc2,Mel. I had the usual hiatus with Photobucket, which rather negated the original challenge!
Back to your cahllenge.