What Cockpit?
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Sorry for the delay, busy today. I thought it was a taildragger and when I found the Rallye picture I nearly rejected it. When I checked the ground attitude I remembered that nose high stance.
Good challenge. Open house I'm afraid.
Good challenge. Open house I'm afraid.
Thanks SLB! I'll go and search for a new challenge.
Bolting on a different engine is easier said than done. The R-1820s used on the Raider are 1200hp but weigh around 540kg each. Going to a bigger engine would mean either the R-2000, which gives you 1350hp each but at 710kg per engine. A rather modest step up in power. The next one up would be the R-2600 at 1750hp, a nice increase, but weighing in at 930kg each. So each step up means more weight (all figures times three of course) which messes up your payload available and your weight and balance, but also means increased fuel flows to feed those horses, which messes up your range as you most likely can't increase the size of the fuel tanks (and if you do, you're taking another big chunk out of your payload). It's all compromises!
Bolting on a different engine is easier said than done. The R-1820s used on the Raider are 1200hp but weigh around 540kg each. Going to a bigger engine would mean either the R-2000, which gives you 1350hp each but at 710kg per engine. A rather modest step up in power. The next one up would be the R-2600 at 1750hp, a nice increase, but weighing in at 930kg each. So each step up means more weight (all figures times three of course) which messes up your payload available and your weight and balance, but also means increased fuel flows to feed those horses, which messes up your range as you most likely can't increase the size of the fuel tanks (and if you do, you're taking another big chunk out of your payload). It's all compromises!
Russian ,or Japanese....?
there is a link between that continent and the aircraft type, but it was not built or designed in Europe
Based largely on that clue, its late 20s styling and primitive instrumentation, the most likely suspect I can find is the Fokker F32 - a portly contraption indeed - but I can’t locate a cockpit photo.
In keeping with the “aircraft only a mother could love” theme...
If this has been up before, apologies.
I thought it had an Eastern European look, but I hadn't spotted the lower wing. That and the bracing strut triggered a vague memory.
There's ugly and then there's the PZL-M15 Belphegor:
Several claims to fame according to Wikipedia:
The name is a nickname:
There's ugly and then there's the PZL-M15 Belphegor:
Several claims to fame according to Wikipedia:
The PZL M-15 is believed to be the world's only jet agricultural aircraft (i.e. the world's only jet crop-duster), the world's only jet biplane and the world's slowest jet
In demonology, Belphegor is a demon, and one of the seven princes of Hell, who helps people make discoveries. He seduces people by suggesting to them ingenious inventions that will make them rich.