What Cockpit?

[Asturias56]

Maybe it sends a message down to the engine room?

[sycamore]

Is it a biplane...?
Is it armed....?

[Noyade]

Originally Posted by sycamore

Is it a biplane...?
Is it armed....?

Yes and yes.
And British.

[Asturias56]

It might be a Fairey Albacore..................... my Father-in-law flew them in WW2

[meleagertoo]

I suspect it's a seaplane or flying boat. Am I right?

[India Four Two]

It might be a Fairey Albacore

The instruments, particularly the single-pointer altimeter, indicate an earlier vintage.

[Noyade]

Originally Posted by India Four Two

The instruments, particularly the single-pointer altimeter, indicate an earlier vintage.

Yes, younger then the Albacore by around 15 years.
Wiki mentions ten variants, Mel - one of which was temporarily fitted with floats, but otherwise a wheeled land-plane.

[meleagertoo]

It's a Vickers Vixen.

[Noyade]

[India Four Two]

I had never heard of it!



PS Make sure Safe Search is turned on, before looking for pictures!

[Asturias56]

that's your story and you're sticking to it I guess....................

[meleagertoo]

[meleagertoo]

I can't begin to imagine the CRM/Human Factors problems that throttle arrangement must have had with P1 trying to drive the plane and simultaneously manage P2 who was driving the engines.

Mind you, I'm not sure the country in question has progressed much in terms of CRM since those days.

[Self loading bear]

Letov S-32?

[meleagertoo]

Four years earlier than the Letov, infinitely more elegant and closer to home than Czechoslovakia.

[Asturias56]

That control column is quite similar to that in Boeing 247 - but not identical - so American? But that's further away than Czecho IIRC.............

[Self loading bear]

A very woke French plane!

[meleagertoo]

Bear's there!

A name anyone?

[Self loading bear]

I forgot which one it was I had to check again:
Couzinet 10 Arc-en-Ciel

[meleagertoo]

A remarkably svelte looking design I'd never heard of before.

You Tube

Over to you, bear.