What Cockpit?

[meleagertoo]

4 seat touring aeroplane with stretcher capability.
Developed from a previous tandem 2 seater.

[Asturias56]

American?

[meleagertoo]

No.
European.

[NearlyStol]

Jodel D140. (Posted also on 'name that plane' by mistake

[meleagertoo]

Afraid not.
This pre-dates your Jodel by twenty years or so.

[bean]

Miles Messenger?

[meleagertoo]

Not a Miles.

This one seems to have had a blind flying panel added though how you'd scan that systematically I can't imagine.

[Asturias56]

Miles Mercury? fits the bill - but not a Miles.................

[meleagertoo]

As I said, not a Miles.
Anyhow, you never saw a Miles with a silhouette like that, did you?

First flight five years before the Mercury and though similar in many ways this was rather chunkier and more substantial.
From a country with one of the greatest aviation heritages. (ie not Rumania etc)

[Noyade]

Hmmm. Would the mystery cockpit be from an aircraft resembling a Spartan Executive - but from Italy?

[Noyade]

Possibly the NARDI FN.310?

[sycamore]

Possibly a Klemm...?

[meleagertoo]

It's not "possibly" the Nardi 310.
It is the Nardi 310.Well done Noyade.

[Noyade]

Cheers Mel.

[sycamore]

Must be on the wing/strut....?

like this,then...?

[Noyade]

Not a biplane Sycamore. Wiki says it was once clocked at 325mph.

[sycamore]

Possibly a Thompson Trophy racer from `38-39...?

[Noyade]

Yes - A Thompson Trophy racer. First flight was 1934 from a well known designer/builder. There is a YouTube video (1982) of him sitting in the racer explaining the cockpit controls and the aircraft in general. It now resides in a museum.

[Noyade]

External shot. I've read he sold the patent for the spring steel undercart to Cessna.
No wheel brakes.

[Noyade]

Not able to monitor this for a few days - so I'll shut it down and declare Open House.

Twas...
Bonzo