What Cockpit? MK VI
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Based on the clue 22 aircraft produced after some searching I consider this aircraft to be the CASA C-207 "Azor". Looking at this photograph it the windscreen wiper positions seem to tie up with planegill's photo.
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Mel...
You're right. I found the same cockpit photo by searching CASA 207 in Google Images.... long after you nailed the aircraft type, of course!
Glenn
You're right. I found the same cockpit photo by searching CASA 207 in Google Images.... long after you nailed the aircraft type, of course!
Glenn
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Thanks for that Glenn. Following your post I too have located the link:-
http://asficheros.org/aeronautica/hi...ca2003/a01.htm. It was a very interesting challenge.
I will await Planegill reply before posting the next one.
Mel
http://asficheros.org/aeronautica/hi...ca2003/a01.htm. It was a very interesting challenge.
I will await Planegill reply before posting the next one.
Mel
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Thanks planegill. It was a very interseting challenge I wasn't too sure whether it was a four engined or two engined aircraft.
I am sure this will not last long. Sorry the quality is not so good.
Mel
I am sure this will not last long. Sorry the quality is not so good.
Mel
Something nautical...,perhaps from the Ironworks?
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Thank you Mel - at work so will post soon
Here it is - according to the list this hasn't been yet. I'm quite surprised; should be quite easy.
Here it is - according to the list this hasn't been yet. I'm quite surprised; should be quite easy.
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Have to admit ,I also think it`s a Skyshark. however, it had 2 engines ,coupled to drive the props,like the Gannet, and the two power levers seem to support that....but the man said it`s not a twin!
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Actually, Mel said it wasn't a twin JET, which, technically, it wasn't. The Skyshark used dual Allison turboprops. Gas turbines, yes, but not quite the commonly accepted definition of "jets".
Mustpost did a fine job and I'm kicking myself for not working faster. I was looking at jet/reciprocating compound power systems like the Ryan Fireball but I didn't get to the Skyshark in time. Well done, Mustpost!!
&^%(*%"!!!Glenn
Mustpost did a fine job and I'm kicking myself for not working faster. I was looking at jet/reciprocating compound power systems like the Ryan Fireball but I didn't get to the Skyshark in time. Well done, Mustpost!!
&^%(*%"!!!Glenn
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Thank you Glenn for your kind comments - but can I explain the luck? Discussing the thread and rare a/c a friend with common interests (and age!) asked the other day if the Fairey Gannett had been done yet - I checked and found rear cockpit only. But then the 'nautical' clue from Mel and cramped cockpit made a penny drop - not UK, must be US, then took 2 mins(!) so not too clever I'm afraid. 
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sycamore, my apologies if I led you astray by saying:-
As you rightly say it did have two gas turbines coupled to a common gearbox.
but not a twin jet
The engine was the Allison XT40-A-2, rated at 5100 eshp and 830 lb of residual thrust. The engine had two Model 501 (XT-38-A) gas turbines mounted side-by-side and connected to a common reduction gearbox. The gearbox drove a set of co-axial propeller shafts that turned a pair of three-bladed -14-foot diameter contrarotating propellers. The two power sections could drive both propellers independently when the other section was declutched. In cruise, one of the T38s could be shut down to increase range and endurance. The engine was mounted in mid-fuselage below the pilot, and was fed by a pair of intakes, one on each side of the lower part of the nose between the wing leading edge and the contrarotating propellers. There were large exhausts on the lower rear fuselage, one on each side, just behind the wing trailing edge.