What Cockpit?

[Noyade]

Originally Posted by Asturias56

I though it might be the Balzac but it's later than that

Yes, 24 years after the Balzac...

[sycamore]

Rockwell-MBB-X-31,,Bitsa

[Self loading bear]

Originally Posted by sycamore

Rockwell-MBB-X-31,,Bitsa

wiki says 2 built of the x-31
I think it is a baby hurricane.

[Noyade]

Not the X-31.
If you elaborate Bear - it's all yours.

In the meantime, here's a more detailed shot of the mystery cockpit...

[Asturias56]

"although it borrowed heavily on design elements and sometimes actual parts of previous production, prototype, and conceptual aircraft designs, including the British Aerospace Experimental Airplane Programme (choice of wing type with canards, plus underfuselage intake), the German TKF-90 (wing planform concepts and underfuselage intake), F/A-18 Hornet (forebody, including cockpit, ejection seat, and canopy; electrical generators), F-16 Fighting Falcon (landing gear, fuel pump, rudder pedals, nosewheel tires, and emergency power unit), F-16XL (leading-edge flap drives), V-22 Osprey (control surface actuators), Cessna Citation (main landing gear's wheels and brakes), F-20 Tigershark (hydrazine emergency air-start system, later replaced) and B-1 Lancer(spindles from its control vanes used for the canards)."

They forgot anything from the Bristol freighter!! No wonder they only built a couple

[Noyade]

Originally Posted by Asturias56

British Aerospace Experimental Airplane Programme

And now we're done!
Over to you A56.....

[Asturias56]

Actually I only posted about the bits that went into the X-31 originally ... then re reading it I realised that of course the cockpit IS the EAP.....

I really can't claim this - Bear or OH!!!

[Self loading bear]

Originally Posted by Asturias56

Actually I only posted about the bits that went into the X-31 originally ... then re reading it I realised that of course the cockpit IS the EAP.....

I really can't claim this - Bear or OH!!!

I did not reveal because i want to avoid this thread to become a Tennis match between me and Noyade.

Therefore then Open House!

[meleagertoo]

I daresay this won't last long in such august company.

I

[sycamore]

Is it a US Navy aircraft,or a NASA test aircraft..?

[meleagertoo]

It is neither.

[Asturias56]

Is it military?

[meleagertoo]

Military? That was the intention.

[Noyade]

The bulbous cockpit of the C-450 Coleoptere?

[meleagertoo]

Just so. Well done, not much to go on there.

You have control.

[Self loading bear]

And then to think I looked in detail to the Convair XFY Pogo cockpit…..

[Noyade]

Thanks.

[Asturias56]

The little graphic just above the pedals shows what looks like a single engine wing ?jet ? aircraft

Can't see a load of radar, gun sights etc so perhaps a trainer? mid-50's Us or UK??

[sycamore]

Bottom of instrument panel cut-out look `Douglas`,same with pedals; twin jet,so maybe an early A-3,or a KA-3,,or a B-66...

[Noyade]

Originally Posted by sycamore

a B-66...

We're done. Over to you sycamore.