What Cockpit?

[India Four Two]

Boeing XB-15. I stumbled on this the other day while researching a previous challenge.





See this page:
https://aafradio.org/flightdeck/1935/SCR-AE-183.html

PS Alternatively it might be an inter-crew top-secret pneumatic tube messaging system!

I see a Caption Competition challenge here!

[dook]

There's a shot I42.

The XB-15 it is.

Your stage.

[India Four Two]

The history of the single XB-15 is worth reading. Record-breaking flights and then useful service as a transport, followed by an ignominious end as landfill in Panama!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_XB-15

Here’s any easy one. Later models had the instrument panel attached to the canopy, to improve the chances of baling out!

[dook]

No engine instruments so certainly a sailplane.

Judging by the ASI quite a high-performance one too.

[India Four Two]

Quite modest performance by present day standards.

[dook]

It's a Schleicher for sure bur there are loads of them with basically the same panel.

Trying to find the model.

[dook]

Bit of a nightmare this - they all basically look the same.

Let's start with the ASW-19.

edit: found a pic of the very similar 20.

[India Four Two]

dook, I recommend you stick with your first answer. The ASW-19 - an over-forty year old glider, but a delight to fly. A bit worrying when I slide my size-12s under the instrument panel.

Here's the one I fly:




dook has control.

[dook]

Cheers India.

It certainly doesn't look that old.

This is though.....

[India Four Two]

Is this one of Sikorsky's aircraft?

[dook]

No I'm afraid. Most of his stuff were helicopters but this is fixed wing.

European.

[Allan Lupton]

Originally Posted by dook

No I'm afraid. Most of his stuff were helicopters
.

Not before 1942 I'd say. They made things like this:

[Cubs2jets]

Abrams P1 Explorer

C2j

[dook]

Good morning Cubs.

This is a floatplane and I have already said it's European.

[sycamore]

French....?

[dook]

No Signore.

[India Four Two]

Not before 1942 I'd say. They made things like this.

I was thinking before 1917 when Sikorsky built things like this

[sycamore]

Single engine....?..Probably Italiano then....

[SincoTC]

It has a similar Panel layout and stick to a Breda Ba.15 ?

[dook]

There's a very good reason for that - it is the Breda Ba.15, in this case the Idro seaplane variant.

I wondered when you would appear. All yours TC. Nicely done.