What Cockpit?
Long shot here.
I can make no sense of ths as conventional aircraft instrumentation.
I think this may be the autopilot control panel from from Lawrence Sperry's Curtis C2 hyroplane that first demonstrated such a device in Paris in 1914 but can't find any evidence to back this up.
The flat foredeck and control wheel arrangement seem to match...
I can make no sense of ths as conventional aircraft instrumentation.
I think this may be the autopilot control panel from from Lawrence Sperry's Curtis C2 hyroplane that first demonstrated such a device in Paris in 1914 but can't find any evidence to back this up.
The flat foredeck and control wheel arrangement seem to match...
Last edited by meleagertoo; 13th Feb 2022 at 11:52.
Which makes it an SPCA40T or a Bernard 60 going by date alone.
Your clue suggests the Bernard 60 though that was all wood construction and the pic appears to show metal skin and perhaps even structure. The all metal version, the Bernard 61T didn't fly until years later I think.
As an unsupported guess Bernard 60T?
Anyone able to explain the units and scales on those instruments? The big ones are probably RPM but what's TEL? And the others? Where's the altimeter?
Your clue suggests the Bernard 60 though that was all wood construction and the pic appears to show metal skin and perhaps even structure. The all metal version, the Bernard 61T didn't fly until years later I think.
As an unsupported guess Bernard 60T?
Anyone able to explain the units and scales on those instruments? The big ones are probably RPM but what's TEL? And the others? Where's the altimeter?
Last edited by meleagertoo; 16th Feb 2022 at 11:54.
There is B in the name of the original builder and in the name of the company that took over the single prototype.
But not a Bernard which are not alike the Burnelli designs
But not a Bernard which are not alike the Burnelli designs
Possibly a Breguet...?
I would like to know what TEL means?
I think it's instruments made by Haslar Telegraph Works, 26 Victoria Street, London. A PhD thesis
The History and Development of Aircraft Instruments - 1909 to 1919 John Kirkham Bradley Imperial College 1994
mentions their instruments and if you google Haslar you'll get a lot more detail eg https://www.aviationancestry.co.uk/?...9&endYear=1990
26 Victoria Street became part of New Scotland Yard - now being redeveloped as some office/apartment complex
How about this cozy two-seater?
