What Cockpit?
Great challenge, I reckon I know what it is and even better, where TCU took the photo.
I haven't got a challenge to mount should I have it right so I'll leave this to someone who can post something to keep the thread going.
BSD.
I haven't got a challenge to mount should I have it right so I'll leave this to someone who can post something to keep the thread going.
BSD.
Very generous comment BSD
I'll offer another photo clue, which should narrow the scope, as well as including one very subtle nudge as to the location of this craft, as alluded by BSD
I'll offer another photo clue, which should narrow the scope, as well as including one very subtle nudge as to the location of this craft, as alluded by BSD
Last edited by TCU; 30th Aug 2022 at 14:25. Reason: improved image
Yay! That's the one I had in mind.
Brilliant museum by the way (SAAF Ysterplaat), though not the easiest to visit. I'd gone on a day when I hoped they were going to run the Shackleton but alas, it didn't happen. I wonder if they still do?
Brilliant museum by the way (SAAF Ysterplaat), though not the easiest to visit. I'd gone on a day when I hoped they were going to run the Shackleton but alas, it didn't happen. I wonder if they still do?
I'll applaud all three of you for your diligent hunting!
Indeed it was SAAF SA-321L Super Frelon "314", with her airliner size cockpit, now spending her retirement at AFB Ysterplaat, Cape Town....the radio BTW was tuned to 124.80, Cape Town Special Rules East
The museum still holds regular public weekend open days and indeed I was there just a couple of Saturdays ago, with the super volunteers indulging us with their intimate knowledge of the many machines, their on-going restoration targets and allowing is to crawl all over them......sitting in Shackleton "722" amidships was a highlight. There is a promise of a Shackleton engine start up on 24th Sept, and if it happens, I shall record and relay
I can confirm the front tyre is now properly pumped up!
Indeed it was SAAF SA-321L Super Frelon "314", with her airliner size cockpit, now spending her retirement at AFB Ysterplaat, Cape Town....the radio BTW was tuned to 124.80, Cape Town Special Rules East
The museum still holds regular public weekend open days and indeed I was there just a couple of Saturdays ago, with the super volunteers indulging us with their intimate knowledge of the many machines, their on-going restoration targets and allowing is to crawl all over them......sitting in Shackleton "722" amidships was a highlight. There is a promise of a Shackleton engine start up on 24th Sept, and if it happens, I shall record and relay
I can confirm the front tyre is now properly pumped up!
Thanks Noyade, and TCU, nice challenge!
the pedals showed me it was not a Sikorsky
3 engines brought me to the Super Frelon
the English dials put me in the direction of South Africa. Then it was simples.
Now back to basics:
the pedals showed me it was not a Sikorsky
3 engines brought me to the Super Frelon
the English dials put me in the direction of South Africa. Then it was simples.
Now back to basics:
It's a Landgraf H2
Never heard of it, though the search brought up several types new to me
(From Wiki) Fred Landgraf formed the Landgraf Helicopter Company in September 1943 to develop and manufacture the H-2. It had an enclosed structure for one pilot and an 85 hp (63 kW) radial engine driving two rotors, each rotor fitted to a short boom on each side of the fuselage. It had a fixed tricycle landing gear. The H-2 first flew on 2 November 1944 and the company was awarded a development contract by the United States Army. It was not developed or bought and the company ceased operations by the end of the 1940s.
Unlike conventional helicopters, the H-2 used a tension-rod drive system to drive the side-by-side rotors.[1] Control of blade pitch was also unconventional, with the blade shells rotating freely about the spars, controlled by ailerons near the tips
Never heard of it, though the search brought up several types new to me
(From Wiki) Fred Landgraf formed the Landgraf Helicopter Company in September 1943 to develop and manufacture the H-2. It had an enclosed structure for one pilot and an 85 hp (63 kW) radial engine driving two rotors, each rotor fitted to a short boom on each side of the fuselage. It had a fixed tricycle landing gear. The H-2 first flew on 2 November 1944 and the company was awarded a development contract by the United States Army. It was not developed or bought and the company ceased operations by the end of the 1940s.
Unlike conventional helicopters, the H-2 used a tension-rod drive system to drive the side-by-side rotors.[1] Control of blade pitch was also unconventional, with the blade shells rotating freely about the spars, controlled by ailerons near the tips
Windscreen seems almost vertical. Slow moving?
Airship?
https://www.airships.net/dirigible/
Saw these controls on an Airliner.net photo of a Goodyear airship. They look very similar to the above...
Airship?
https://www.airships.net/dirigible/
Saw these controls on an Airliner.net photo of a Goodyear airship. They look very similar to the above...