Hint: rear cockpit.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...n9/mystery.jpg

6 engines, tandem cockpit, B-47 Stratojet :D

And is the photo reversed, looking at the dials/throttles?

As far as I know it is not reversed, and that is another throttle lever just inboard of the other 6.

It is a Stratojet co-pilot panel
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/resea.../b4/b47b-1.jpg

It's Tiger's call, but here's one to fill in the time or in case he doesn't post:

http://tinypic.com/eg70yb.jpg

:ooh: I've made model aeroplanes with more instruments than that.


Is that a gunsight?


V1 flying bomb - the test version of course.

or

Japanese flying bomb - the final version :ugh:

It is indeed a sight. Make a choice. BTW, max speed 525mph.

You'd have your toes curled around that rudder bar at 525mph I reckon.

Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka.

Correct. That speed was observed in the dive to the target. :ooh:

One more then:

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/nw969/c22.jpg

................B-58 Hustler.

A B-45 with an 800 knot ASI?

Nope - 'tis indeed a B-58A Hustler.

Check out this site:

http://www.megspace.com/politics/greenham/index.htm

and click on the B58 arrives in the UK link, for an interesting bit from Pathe news.

No time MJ. I'm off to the 'local' Sunday Night Brains Trust. You have control.

John Eacott and Tiger_mate were right.

That particular B47 was a test bed for the Iroquois engine that was to power the Avro Arrow, hence the 7th throttle.

That particular B47 was a test bed for the Iroquois engine that was to power the Avro Arrow, hence the 7th throttle.

I wondered if it was anything to do with RATO, or is RATO light the fires and all hell is let loose for a few seconds of uncontrolled thrust?

Jet Provost??

Tiger_mate: Here is the rear end.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v712/crun9/b47.jpg

Vampire Trainer

http://www.kiwiaircraftimages.com/im...ry/ANNVAM7.JPG

I would so like to fly in one of those. Sat in the airframe at Langford Lodge, and it is an office I could get very familiar with, along with a permanent smile :O

Thanks Henry, strange looking beasty

If anybody else would like to set the bait fill your boots, otherwise I'll dig out something in the morning. Must be your turn John E