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Sleeve Wing 15th Feb 2006 20:07

MReyn24050.

Thank you, Sir, for your comments. I was only dipping my toes into the water. I'm actually just amazed by the knowhow you gentlemen share and am prepared just to stand back in awe.(I'm also a bit of a nerd when it comes to posting pictures.) Please do not allow me to interfere with the party.
KRgds, Sleeve. :ok:

MReyn24050 15th Feb 2006 20:31

Sleeve Wing
Please do not stand back in awe come in an join the party. As you will have seen this thread has been running for some six months and some 260+ cockpits have been presented to date including the F106A. Should you like a copy of a spreadsheet listing those already presented please PM me.
Should WUB confirm it to be the F106B then, anyone, please feel free to post a new challenge.
Mel

wub 15th Feb 2006 21:18

It's a QF 106, well done Sleeve

cringe 15th Feb 2006 21:29

List of aircraft types presented in this thread so far

Sleeve, welcome to the thread. Don't be shy - join the fun!

MReyn24050 16th Feb 2006 08:54

wub
You say that the aircraft was a QF106. A search on Google produced the following information regarding the QF 106.
"Following the retirement of the last operational F106A Delta Dart in 1988, some 277 single seat (F106A) and 63 two seat versions (F106B) were converted into remotely targetable drones were converted to QF106 aerial target drones under the 'Pacer Six' Program, with most being expended by the 82 ATRS at Tyndall AFB (Florida). In the course of active operations QF106 drone ops, which extended to January of 1998, there were several flyable survivors which were able to return to AMARC for storage (D-MAFB, AZ). There were also a few non-flying airframes left on the Tyndall ramp at the end of the 'Pacer Six' Program (7 aircraft), as well, and originally they were parked in that part of the Tyndall AFB ramp known as the 'Swamp' (although in unflyable condition). Purchase of these remaining airframes was subsequently negotiated by a private aviation enterprise based in Texas (David Tokoff's GRECO-AIR in El Paso) and a tentative deal was struck with DRMS to sell the aircraft for purposes of restoring them as non-flying, museum-display grade aircraft. One of these aircraft was reportedly ear-marked for restoration as a fully operational flying specimen, although it appears that perhaps two of them may have been fully restored at this time for flight (including a two-seat B model); however, due to the fact that stringent 'de-mil' requirements for combat aircraft require cutting the airframe structural members to render them incapable of further flight applications, this stalled the whole purchase package for some time. As of 2 Mar 04, the non-flying survivors have all been trucked from the Tyndall ramp and shipped to GRECO-AIR's El Paso base of operations, where most of them are awaiting restoration".
I would be interested to know if this particular aircraft was in fact a converted F106B.
Mel

MReyn24050 16th Feb 2006 09:21

No challenges? Well here is an easy one to keep the thread going.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...kpitquiz19.jpg

682al 16th Feb 2006 09:49

Looks like a Hawker Sea Hawk from here?

cringe 16th Feb 2006 09:50

Mel,


I would be interested to know if this particular aircraft was in fact a converted F106B.
It might have been a single-seater. See http://www.f-106deltadart.com/eclipse.htm

MReyn24050 16th Feb 2006 10:09

682al
You are correct Sir. You have control
cringe
Thanks for the link. Looking at the adjacent photograph showing the forward portion of the cockpit visor I can now see that it was a F106A.
Mel

682al 16th Feb 2006 10:31

Here we go again...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ntitled-5a.jpg

wub 16th Feb 2006 10:41

Achtung! Spitfire?

682al 16th Feb 2006 11:41

Leider nicht, Herr Vub! :D

wub 16th Feb 2006 11:52

Ach! Scheiße :confused:

Hurricane then

682al 16th Feb 2006 12:02

nor a Hurricane.

MReyn24050 16th Feb 2006 12:04

I will go for a Fairey Fulmar or perhaps an early Firefly Mk.

682al 16th Feb 2006 13:08

Not from the Fairey stable...

MReyn24050 16th Feb 2006 13:35

I will go off on a complete tangent, even though the compass makes me think it is British, and say Junkers JU87 Stuka.

682al 16th Feb 2006 13:46

Sorry MReyn24050, you are indeed on a tangent. :D

gas path 16th Feb 2006 15:04

Boulton-Paul Defiant?????

682al 16th Feb 2006 15:13

correct gas path, over to you!

gas path 16th Feb 2006 18:38

Incoming............again!
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4..._early_one.jpg[/IMG]

jabberwok 16th Feb 2006 18:41

Caprioni? Can't remember the number - will have to look it up.

gas path 16th Feb 2006 20:27

And your answer is....................................wrong:p :}
Not Italian!

MReyn24050 17th Feb 2006 07:28

Dornier DOX perhaps?

cringe 17th Feb 2006 08:09

Curtiss H-16 ?

LowNSlow 17th Feb 2006 09:11

Ilya Muromets?

MReyn24050 17th Feb 2006 09:23

cringe

Well done you have beaten us again.

After you suggested it to be the Curtiss H-16 I found a copy of the photograph on a document entitled "Aircraft of the AEF". Whereas the layout of the cockpit DO-X is similar it was for two pilots not for a single pilot.

Mel

gas path 17th Feb 2006 09:28

cringe, over to you:ok: twas indeed the Curtiss H 1-16.

cringe 17th Feb 2006 15:50

Apologies for being late again. What type was the following contraption fitted into?

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...nge_/unk28.jpg

MReyn24050 17th Feb 2006 15:58

cringe

The DFS 228 V1. Here she is on the back off a Dornier Do 217K V-3

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...raft/228-6.jpg

Mel

mikl 17th Feb 2006 16:03

Blohm und Voss BV 40 ?

cringe 17th Feb 2006 16:31

Sorry mikl, not the BV 40.

Well done Mel, you're correct about the DFS 228. It was the V2 prototype; according to my information the V1 had a conventional sitting position for the pilot.

MReyn24050 17th Feb 2006 17:01

Cringe
Thanks, I knew they were intending to use a pilot in the normal sitting position on the V1 but wasnt sure if they achieved it.
Here is a another one I am sure you and the other experts will not have a great deal of trouble with.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...kpitquiz39.jpg

Bert Stiles 17th Feb 2006 22:58

A variation of the Waco 10 ???..... ASO .....INF one of those series ?

MReyn24050 18th Feb 2006 06:25

Sorrry Bert neither of those.

Bert Stiles 18th Feb 2006 07:21

OK, the other obvious choice would be a Travelair ?

MReyn24050 18th Feb 2006 11:02

Wrong again Bert, however it is from North America.

jabberwok 18th Feb 2006 11:12

Ryan? But not the PT22..

PT16?

MReyn24050 18th Feb 2006 12:13

No Sir, not a Ryan. This type first flew in 1930.

barit1 18th Feb 2006 13:12

Consolidated / Brewster Fleet?


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