What Cockpit?

[SincoTC]

Good morning dook,

Well that didn't last long did it

It is indeed the Prototype Percival Prentice from an article on its launch in the Fright Archives!

Control is yours

[dook]

Cheers TC.

There were a couple of things which looked familiar to an old RAF QFI.

[SincoTC]

Originally Posted by dook

There were a couple of things which looked familiar to an old RAF QFI.

Yes, that thought did cross my mind, so I expected it to be somewhat erksome [sic]!

I'm not really a great fan of cockpits!! This one does look pretty old to me!

WWI ? British ?

Maybe a Fokker ??

[dook]

WW1 but not British.

[SincoTC]

Prolly didn't see my edit?

How about a Fokker? Maybe a Dr.1 ?

[dook]

I did indeed miss your edit.

Well, it only lasted a little more than yours.

Fokker DR1 indeed so back to you.

[SincoTC]

Originally Posted by dook

Well, it only lasted a little more than yours.

Thanks! Pure luck on my part I assure you

Try this one from a little later!

[dook]

Looking at the winding jobber on the right, sliding canopy ?

Has a German look about it.

[SincoTC]

Originally Posted by dook

Looking at the winding jobber on the right, sliding canopy ?

Has a German look about it.

Not sure about the winding thingy, 'tiz an open cockpit jobber, but it looks like my old school's pencil sharpener, text might indicate it's a manual starting magneto

It's not German though!

[dook]

Heard of manual advance/retard architecture in magnetos, but not a manual starting magneto.

Probably before the advent of impulse couplings.

[JENKINS]

Impulse couplings in turn superceded by the flux capacitor.

[dook]

I now know what the magneto crank is and found a photograph.

Methinks the aeroplane might be French possibly a Spad, but I'm put off by the wheel.

[SincoTC]

Originally Posted by dook

Heard of manual advance/retard architecture in magnetos, but not a manual starting magneto.

Probably before the advent of impulse couplings.

Me neither! I think it was only a non-synchronised booster, rather like a telephone ringer, but it sounds bloody dangerous if not used with some kind of wind-up starter!!

Dates from the twenties and not French

[dook]

Ah - the shower of sparks.

[dook]

Something from Vickers, such as the Vulcan ?

[SincoTC]

Not from Vickers but it is British !!

[sycamore]

Made by Blackburn.../

[dook]

Or de Havilland.

[SincoTC]

Sycamore is on the right trail

[dook]

T-3 Velos……?