What Cockpit? MK VI
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I'll commence by guessing it is a Lewis & Vought VE-9. The two-tiered panel is unusual, as is the intrusion in the lower centre, which looks like a housing for a nose wheel. The sterno pot dead ahead looks like an early RN torpedo aiming device. All a bit puzzling. The well padded cockpit sides would indicate a racer, or is it an inflatable collar for the odd off-shore excursion ?
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Hm! Caught me out, haven't you? Answers derived not from knowledge but web search.
It looks to me like a 2 seater, the singles seemed to have a high-backed fuselage, and that device ahead of the screen could well be a gun mount, so I'll say a -10 2 seat recce version. The apparently padded cockpit sides might be explained by this too.
It looks to me like a 2 seater, the singles seemed to have a high-backed fuselage, and that device ahead of the screen could well be a gun mount, so I'll say a -10 2 seat recce version. The apparently padded cockpit sides might be explained by this too.
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As you have rightly deduced it is a two seater and in fact it is the Ansaldo SVA.9.
In 1979 Aeroplane Monthly reported on the restoration of a SVA.9 by Herbert Fyfield and was part of the Fyfield Collection of Washington,Connecticut, USA. I am not sure if this collection still exists perhaps someone can confirm.
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In 1979 Aeroplane Monthly reported on the restoration of a SVA.9 by Herbert Fyfield and was part of the Fyfield Collection of Washington,Connecticut, USA. I am not sure if this collection still exists perhaps someone can confirm.
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