What Cockpit? MK VI
Is it the prototype of some multi-million pound development programme by Baron Waste O'Space that was subsequently cancelled due to cost over-runs? 
Terrence,
I'll start the ball rolling. Tandem two-seat high-wing monoplane with an inverted inline four - possibly a Menasco Pirate?
I'll start the ball rolling. Tandem two-seat high-wing monoplane with an inverted inline four - possibly a Menasco Pirate?
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Hmm, a very quiet Sunday, so a little clue before Monday arrives!
A project with high ambitions, the image shows partially completed instrumentation as successfully test flown on three occasions, however, it was cancelled before its ultimate design purpose was realised.
A project with high ambitions, the image shows partially completed instrumentation as successfully test flown on three occasions, however, it was cancelled before its ultimate design purpose was realised.
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A'rtnoon Graeme
Good question mate, not much wiggle-room there, I could say how high it got during tests, but the ambition was about a quarter million miles!! 
How high?
Looks like canvas in the background?
To the moon....and hopefully back, eh? Have you seen the movie Apollo 18? Based on the Hollywood interiors from that movie, yours looks cheap and nasty like the poor Russian cosmonaut's vehicle. The poor bugger was killed by the "sleeping rocks". See it - you'll laugh!
but the ambition was about a quarter million miles!!
Well, I'll be damned - Was it depicted in Apollo18....?
Poor bugger....
. Never trust Moon rocks!
A bloodstained Soviet LK lander is depicted in the movie Apollo 18.
. Never trust Moon rocks!
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I haven't seen that movie yet mate, but no doubt it'll do the rounds on the "haunted fish-tank" before long.
Not canvas though; in fact it was a much heavier construction than Apollo due to the requirement for Air at normal atmospheric pressure for safety reasons, rather than the American choice of pure Oxygen at lower pressure, which cost the lives three astronauts in a ground test.
Edited to say that you got it mate!
It is the Soviet lunar lander - the Russian counterpart of the American LM Lunar Module. The LK ('Lunniy korabl' - lunar craft)
The "Real story" is here: LK
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Not canvas though; in fact it was a much heavier construction than Apollo due to the requirement for Air at normal atmospheric pressure for safety reasons, rather than the American choice of pure Oxygen at lower pressure, which cost the lives three astronauts in a ground test.
Russian cosmonaut's vehicle
It is the Soviet lunar lander - the Russian counterpart of the American LM Lunar Module. The LK ('Lunniy korabl' - lunar craft)
The "Real story" is here: LK
Noyade has control
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I'll try and create the scene...
The American astronauts go into this crater - completely dark of course, and for some reason they have this flashing strobe light (don't torches work on the moon?) and regularly light their path. Lots of grunting and panting as they make their way down into the crater and then "pop" goes strobe and the full screen shows the Cosmonauts skull. Shock value - but I did feel a sphincter loosen a little.
Thanks mate, but I can't accept that on the grounds I watch B-grade horror.
NOT a challenge, just out of interest for anyone. Recognise any of the interiors? Quiz from the mid-90's...
OPEN HOUSE.
The American astronauts go into this crater - completely dark of course, and for some reason they have this flashing strobe light (don't torches work on the moon?) and regularly light their path. Lots of grunting and panting as they make their way down into the crater and then "pop" goes strobe and the full screen shows the Cosmonauts skull. Shock value - but I did feel a sphincter loosen a little.
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NOT a challenge, just out of interest for anyone. Recognise any of the interiors? Quiz from the mid-90's...
OPEN HOUSE.
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The whole sorry saga of the botched Soviet moon programme is given first hand and in immense detail in Boris Chertok's "Rockets and People Vol IV". Chertok was the electrical and controls designer throughout the entire Soviet rocket programme from the captured V2s onwards.
All four books are fascinating but very long. Rocket nerds only!
Download them free from the the NASA library.
All four books are fascinating but very long. Rocket nerds only!
Download them free from the the NASA library.