What Cockpit?

[Self loading bear]

Originally Posted by asw28-866

Post 2196 gave away the lineage for me, looks distinctly Yakalov. As to which one, the high/low/ back, single/two-seat, sentence leads me to suggest, YAK-7.

'866

866 nailed it with the Yak-7

The floor is yours.
I think the photos are all -7Bs but no one can tell when they all differ.

Who knows more about the speeds of this bird?

[Jhieminga]

Looks like they just threw any instrument they could find into it. I suspect that the original Russian books and instruments may have used km/h to keep things interesting (or am I confusing Russian and German cockpits here...?), so the Vne number may be from one translation of the Russian documents and the instrument is perhaps based on something else again. Indeed, not good practice, but registered as 'experimental' so more or less the owner/operator's problem...

[asw28-866]

Apologies for tardy response, had to go and do some work! Try this one...

[asw28-866]

Original, un-modernised cockpit...

[ex82watcher]

Nice shelf there for your coffee,sandwiches etc.

[Jhieminga]

In those days, it was more likely used for the ashtray...

[asw28-866]

Quite right, this is the swinging sixties after all, aircraft developed by well known manufacturer to take on the Cessna 172.

[asw28-866]

External view showing rather D.H. Leopard Moth like strut arrangement (for the same reason, to facilitate wing folding)...

[BSD]

Could it be.......

The BN3 Nymph?

That featured folding wings. Don’t think they built quite as many of them as Cessna did of the 172.

[asw28-866]

BSD has it with the BN3 Nymph, one built, still airworthy and still IoW based (apparently for sale on a UK website), the Pathe news film from 1969 is wonderful!

You Tube

BSD has control.

[BSD]

Yay! Try this. Hopefully with my limited IT skills I’ve managed to conceal the type - shown on the panel!

[asw28-866]

No idea, but will attempt to narrow the field.

Homebuilt, UK registered, wood/fabric, two-seater, tailwheel, VW engine?

How many out of six?

'866

[BSD]

asw - 4. It isn’t VW powered and it isn’t (as far as I can tell) a homebuilt.

As to where it was built - think of a John Betjeman poem.......

[Asturias56]

Slough??? or somewhere a bit more bucolic?

[BSD]

Asturias,

Slough is spot on. Though I think this was built after he implored "the friendly bombs to fall on Slough"

[meleagertoo]

Bucolic, or alcoholic?

[Self loading bear]

If I am right there is also a connection with Sloinge.

[BSD]

Sloinge? Sweden? Hmmm. I can't see that connection myself. Could be something I haven't spotted though.

However, though I believe it was built in Slough, it has connections with 2 other countries in mainland Europe. One of them Bear, being a neighbour of yours.....

Lovely looking little aeroplane though.

[sycamore]

E.O. T, not PG...?

[UV]

Tipsy Trainer? OH if correct.