What Cockpit? MK VI

[aviate1138]

Thanks, despite its appearance it seems to fly very well.

Now for something completely different......

[sabredog]

Grumman X-29?

[sycamore]

Looks like a spin-configured F-5/Test aircraft..?

[aviate1138]

sabredog has the answer YHC

[sabredog]

Thank you,aviate1138.
The next;

[mika33]

Maybe an Airspeed AS8

[sabredog]

A good effort,mika33,and I can see your reasoning. But not the Airspeed as8.
Same time period though.

[MReyn24050]

Maybe an Airspeed AS8

Welcome to the thread mika33, if 16 is your age it is great to see a youngster taking an interest in these old aircraft. It certainly is a twin engined aircraft but I have a feeling this one comes from the continent of Europe.

[aviate1138]

Instruments look Germanic.......

[mika33]

Thanks guys.So I'm going back into my books.

I thinks that this aircraft is English because the yoke is characteristic of Avro airplane

[MReyn24050]

I thinks that this aircraft is English because the yoke is characteristic of Avro airplane

Mika33 do not give up on it being a German aircraft as a number of German manufacturers also used that type of yoke on early aircraft. This is the Junkers F 13.

[sabredog]

"Germanic", yes, but not German, although the Luftwaffe did use this aircraft.

[mika33]

Sorry.Ok thanks.I like talking with people older than me, because I always learnt new things.

[MReyn24050]

The aircraft I believe is from Austria the Hopfner HA11/13.

[sabredog]

That is the one,Mel. Well done.
YHC.

[MReyn24050]

Thanks Terry. I hope we did not frighten mika33 away. Here is the next one:-

[mika33]

Maybe a Dewoitine 338

[Agaricus bisporus]

Here's a question that's been niggling me for a long time.

Could the cadre of experts here reveal how they discover the answers to the esoteric challenges we are getting these days? When we were looking at B17s and Sopwith Camels it was all very well, we might have seen one somewhere but when it comes to an obscure Austrian amphib that I have never heard of (and I like to think I'm pretty well up on aircraft types) I begin to wonder how the heck anyone could know what it looks like in the office. Are there web resources for cockpits of forgotten aircraft that you all trawl through (I've never found one) or do you do it by analysis of canopy frames or sumpn? I mean, you cant identify an individual aircraft from an Avro-like control yoke that might also be german can you...or can you?

Any of you wheels care to spill the beans?

[VX275]

For me its one of looking at the clues. Take the challenge above, the throttles and engine instruments shout trimotor. Its a stressed metal skin construction with a smooth skin so it isn't a Junkers, Ford or Fokker (just watch it turn out to be one of these) which will narrow the search down a bit. Looking for a fuselage shape that fits what you can see will be part of it but for this one I feel that the main point of identification will be the windows, that asymetrical DV panel, the step between the windscreen and the side panels and is that a kidney shaped window in the roof?
Ultimately it is likely to come down to how big your archive resource is (books, magazines, photo's etc). The internet is not that great on the really exotic subjects but challenges like this will expand its knowledge.

[MReyn24050]

I totally agree with all that VX275 has said. I fortunately have a good archive resource and also have built up a good archive of internet bookmarks.

For mike33 this aircraft is not French but it is from the continent of Europe.