It's a Mercury capsule. Don't know which one - but it doesn't resemble other pictures of the instrument panel in Schirra's Sigma Seven.

Mercury Friendship 7, in which John Glenn completed the
first (US) orbit around the earth. ( I took this from a US
web site. Thought I'd better add the missing 'US' bit). ;)

Well, my reference was Schirra's website, page on Sigma 7. I (wrongly) assumed that the cockpit shown there belonged to the same spacecraft.

Someone extended his downwind too far, and I'm cutting in with this beauty:

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/barit1/cpt12.jpg

Lockheed Lodestar?

cringe, the photo I saw of Sigma 7 shows a different configuration on the right hand edge of the instrument panel. Sorry I can't post a URL; googling for the photo is a pain due to all those American fraternity/sorority sites with 'Sigma' in their titles......:rolleyes:

Anyone from the Smithsonian care to correct this, with apologies to Yuri?

"John Glenn completed the first orbit around the earth in this space craft, the Mercury Friendship 7". Next - the Movie!

http://www.sites.si.edu/images/exhib...ip_jpg_jpg.htm

I wonder how many of our cousins think that Charles Lindberg was the first aviator to cross the Atlantic non-stop :rolleyes:

Back to the photo.... The yoke says DC-4 but the view out the front suggests a tail-dragger.

BEagle, sure, you were right. This is the actual Sigma 7 panel from the Astronaut Hall Of Fame
in Titusville, Florida:

http://klapperthal.com/ahof/hof00866.jpg

http://klapperthal.com/ahof.htm

Getting close!

I'd agree on Douglas. C-47 variant?

Then again - Lockheed C-40A.

Close enough for government work. The US Army had a couple Lockheed 12-A's under the C-40A designation.
http://www.airbum.com/pireps/Lockheed12A4.jpg

One of the classiest classics ever!

Lest one confuse this with a Beech 18, be it noted that the Lockheed predated the Beech by a year, and by the time of Pearl Harbor had outsold the Beech 2-1, not counting an outstanding order to the Dutch for a few dozen. The US War Dept. reminded Lockheed they had their hands full with the Hudson, Lodestar, Lightning, and several hush-hush jobs, and so Lockheed turned over the unfinished 12-A contracts to Beech.

Thus the 12-A line ended at 130 planes, while Beech built about 10,000 18's over the next two decades.

Fris B. Fairing - you awake? It's yours, you nudged me towards Lockheed.

Yep we're awake in the antepoades. Happy new year to all. I can't believe I missed the beautiful Lockheed 12. It was my first thought but I managed to convince myself otherwise. Anyway, I've found a cockpit photo amongst my collection. Doubtless it's been done before so I'm going to need the correct Mark for this one. Sorry, but I've had to deprive everyone of situational awareness, otherwise it's too easy.

http://www.adastron.com/aviation/vault/cockpit-352.jpg

Meteor TT20?

Harumph! Hardly worth the effort of airbrushing. You have it BEagle. Meteor TT20 WD647 at the Queensland Air Museum.

When I saw the number I thought that rings a bell, I've flown that aircraft, but I was wrong, it was WD648 and the back seat didn't look like that. :)

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/nw969/Hmmmmm.jpg

Sorry for the quality!

Supermarine Swift.

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