What Cockpit?

[sycamore]

MReyn,yes it was a Scout.....we`re going to be known as` Extinction Resurrection` with Scouts,Wasp,Lynx,J-P,,SeaFury ,and Hunter to bring back to life....

[dook]

Bristol Beaufighter ?

[John Eacott]

Originally Posted by dook

Bristol Beaufighter ?

Indeed: the RAAF Beaufighter at Moorabbin

Originally Posted by Self loading bear

Caption intermezzo:

Listen son, When these buggers didn’t want to start, you just shortcutted this green lead onto this brown contact.

Whatever it is I am looking forward to the story behind this photo!

Very droll, SLB

Dad was shot down when a bunch of 109s used him for target practice over the Aegean Sea after his newly delivered Beau didn't produce enough power to join his squadron mates as they took the sensible option and fled from the more nimble fighters. After losing an engine Dad successfully ditched, but was some depth before he thought to undo his seat belt and get out through the overhead escape hatch. 24 hours later he and his observer (Sgt Bob Pritchard) were picked up an Arado floatplane and taken prisoner with the words 'for you, the war is over'. Shot down 10th November 1943 age 21, picked up on the 11th: swapped places with a Fusilier so he could get out on work parties and escape, recaptured, etc and finally got away to the US Army early in 1945.

The spin to the photo was it was his first time in a Beaufighter since being shot down; and the date (unintentionally) was 10th November 2015.

[Self loading bear]

Originally Posted by John Eacott

A big applause to your dad and his fellow camarades!!!!

[dook]

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[Jhieminga]

Is this an American military type?

[sycamore]

Looks like the instructors cockpit in a Stearman(front),or a BT-13(back),or something similar...

[Jhieminga]

I'm probably off by a mile, but will give this a go: Fairchild PT-19.

[Cubs2jets]

Boeing F4B / P-12.

Open house (I've got a picture for What Aerodrome but not What Cockpit).

C2j

[dook]

C2j gets the hit with the Boeing F4B / P-12.

He has called OH.

[Jhieminga]

[Jhieminga]

It's gone awfully quiet here.... no thoughts on this one?

[dook]

Well, I found it yesterday but all the threads are very slow.

I wonder if people are just losing interest.

[Self loading bear]

I am wondering what those pipes are left and right

[Jhieminga]

You'd think that people would have plenty of time to work out puzzles like these, now that everyone is at home, either with a virus or running from it.

No clue about the pipes either I'm afraid...

[John Eacott]

Originally Posted by Jhieminga

This image is so small that it is beyond difficult to identify any worthwhile features.

If there is any way to give us a better photo? Then there may be more interest.

[dook]

Admittedly it is somewhat small but in such instances I simply save and enlarge it.

I think it's the Grumman Skyrocket but I'm not certain.

[Jhieminga]

It was the only image that I could find, but dook has cracked it, so he can pick a larger image for the next challenge.

[dook]

This photo is somewhat easier to decipher.



It is possible that the pipes are heating ducts.

I shall call OH.

[John Eacott]

Originally Posted by John Eacott

I believe they're now also being used to develop unmanned load delivery for the Military in the USA.

Just following on from that comment, here's a video of the development of the unmanned K Max

You Tube