What Cockpit?

[Asturias56]

Polikarpov P2???

[India Four Two]

"Close but no cigar"

[asw28-866]

sticking with Polikarpov, add 3 to make it an R-5?

[India Four Two]

Glider pilots are good at arithmetic! The Polikarpov R-5 it is:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polikarpov_R-5

It featured in a recent What Aerodrome, hence it looked familiar to me.

866 has control.

[asw28-866]

Thank you I42, don't think we have had this one before...



866

[UV]

Fournier motor glider ?

[India Four Two]

I think it’s an early German motor glider - Scheibe or Schleicher? I can’t decide if that giant lever is for pitch-change or engine retraction.

[bafanguy]

Originally Posted by India Four Two

I can’t decide if that giant lever is for pitch-change or engine retraction.

A lever of that size and prominence must be for something important. What's that small gray wheel on the right ? Elevator trim perhaps ? The red stripe at the top would indicate zero trim ?

[India Four Two]

The operating arm on the lever goes forward so I think it's the pitch change mechanism for a nose-mounted engine. I see a Both position on the mag switch so presumably dual-ignition.

[asw28-866]

Prominent lever is indeed for mechanical pitch change. Interestingly for this particular type both UV and I42 are part correct! My uncle Brian in the prototype.

[India Four Two]

I've seen similar levers in an RF-5, but less massive, and mounted in the middle of the panel. Is this an earlier Fournier?

[asw28-866]

There is a Fournier element to this aircraft, but not an “RF” type. A clue was provided when I wrote that both your initial response and that of UV correct in part.

[Fitter2]

SFS-31 Milan ?

(RF4 + SF27 hybrid, 27 + 4 = 31. The Ka12 about the same time frame was a much nicer, better engineered beast)

[asw28-866]

That’s the one Fitter2, the SFS-31 Milan, the floor is yours

[zetec2]

engine stopped, prop feathered, as a glider, but don't see a canopy ????

[Fitter2]

I thought I recognised the Milan - sat in the cockpit once, but never flew it.



I don't have much to hand, so a nice easy one.

[asw28-866]

Like the real thing, only smaller!

[Fitter2]

asw28-866:

Like the real thing, only smaller!

I wouldn't disagree

[Mark 1]

2750 RPM limit suggests O-200 and wooden biplane.

I'll take a stab at Isaac's Fury.

[Fitter2]

An accurate stab, Mark 1 (I said it was an easy one) This pretty example, being admired at the 2010 LAA Rally



Over to you.