What Cockpit? MK VI
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Nottingham UK
Age: 84
Posts: 5,575
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
You have it Bri. My source has it as the Fairchild UC61. However, the Fairchild Model 24, a four-seat, single-engine monoplane light transport aircraft was used by the United States Army Air Corps as the UC-61 and by the Royal Air Force. The Model 24 was itself a development of previous Fairchild models and became a successful civil and military utility aircraft.
I am not sure exactly which model the cockpit photograph portrays.
You have control
I am not sure exactly which model the cockpit photograph portrays.
You have control
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Timbukthree
Posts: 13
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Noyade, it is not the F.11. It is the rare, nearly unheard-of Fokker S.II primary trainer.. Don't confuse it with the post-war "bent-knee" S.11 primary trainer.
I'll give you control.
I'll give you control.
Last edited by evansb; 12th Aug 2012 at 13:41.
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Nottingham UK
Age: 84
Posts: 5,575
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I will go for the Fokker S.I or TW-4 as tested by the US Army Air Service.
Beaten to it the story of my life.
Beaten to it the story of my life.
Last edited by MReyn24050; 12th Aug 2012 at 13:25.
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Timbukthree
Posts: 13
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Mel, my cockpit photo depicts a parasol monoplane, but the following shot is a bi-plane. Your photo depicts a parasol monoplane that matches the wing struts of the cockpit photo.. I think you are correct. It must be the TW-4. Post #7468 is the Fokker S.II side-by-side, unequal span biplane trainer.
Last edited by evansb; 12th Aug 2012 at 13:51.
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Nottingham UK
Age: 84
Posts: 5,575
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Thanks Bri. A very interesting challenge. I am in the process of reading Weyl's book on Fokker. He was a very interesting man and at times somewhat of a loose cannon.
As Graeme started me down the correct path I have no problems with him taking the honours.
As Graeme started me down the correct path I have no problems with him taking the honours.
I wasn't even close gents!? Apart from Fokker.
But thank you.
Sorry, but at the moment and considering the list, all I can come up with is an outside shot...
But thank you.
Sorry, but at the moment and considering the list, all I can come up with is an outside shot...
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Nottingham UK
Age: 84
Posts: 5,575
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Thanks Graeme.
New challenge will be posted later.
The D.H.71 was built in 1926 to investigate high-speed monoplane flight and to serve as a test bed for developing the D.H. Gipsy engine, a follow-on power plant to the Cirrus. For the era it employed an amazing degree of streamlining and was actually built "around" (rather than for) its test pilot, Hubert Broad Only two were built - G-EBQU and G-EBRV. The first and former was sent to Australia in 1930 and registered VH-UNH to Frank.K. Bardsley of Sydney on 20 January of that year. It crashed on 17 September 1930 whilst practicing for an air race after suffering engine failure on take-off, killing the pilot, Dave Smith, 20, registered owner of the Ryan B-1 G-AUIZ and the youngest commercial pilot in Australia at that time.
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Nottingham UK
Age: 84
Posts: 5,575
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Update deleting the original challenges prior to "What Cockpit II"
The "What Cockpit" list has been updated today. I have deleted all those cockpits that were part of the original "What Cockpit" thread, some 370 cockpits, as the thread is no longer accessible. The list now starts with those challenges submitted from the start of "What Cockpit II".
