What Cockpit? MK VI
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Norwich's Challenge..
Well, basically, it is a DC-4/C-54 Skymaster... probably the military model because of the horizontal radio installation. But if you want an exact model type... and because that looks like a Canadian sticker on the power pedestal, I'll crawl waaaay out on a limb and guess that it may be a Canadair DC4M Northstar or a Canadair C-4 Argonaut.
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Well Ozbeowulf, You are 99.9% correct, its here in the UK, I would have loved to have seen a northstar or argonaut last year, over here, but I don't think we have any left ? From its history, it was registered in Canada at some time during its life ? Must be easier now ? Keith.
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Breaking news: I now believe this might be one of the old British Air Ferries Carvairs, based on the low point from which the photo was taken and the fact that the DC4/C54 has been used before.
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The next "What Cockpit"
Thanks, Keith...
That was an excellent challenge! Well done! It was easy to identify it as a DC-4 and the Canadian sticker suckered me into thinking a Merlin-powered variant was the model type you wanted.
Now for a change of pace...
I can't see this lasting very long. Just a bit of fun...
Glenn
That was an excellent challenge! Well done! It was easy to identify it as a DC-4 and the Canadian sticker suckered me into thinking a Merlin-powered variant was the model type you wanted.
Now for a change of pace...
I can't see this lasting very long. Just a bit of fun...Glenn
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Full marks to larssnowpharter! It is indeed the FA-330A! Imagine being dragged along by a U-boat, whirring and freezing a hundred feet up over the North Atlantic in December on this......
(One rotor blade seems to be missing from this museum example)
Open house, the man says....
(One rotor blade seems to be missing from this museum example)
Open house, the man says....
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682al has it .. well done
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