JDK, spot on with the Leo 451. :ok: Over to you.

http://www.histoiredumonde.net/IMG/jpg/intro-24.jpg

Why, thank you.

Had I the courage of my convictions, I'd have loaded up a piccie all ready. I didn't so I didn't. Apologies for the delay.

I got it due to Cringe's essay into French exotica before, from which it was but a short step to the Leo.

This should prove easy; so extra points for the details of this particular, historic, airframe.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...kpit230706.jpg

It is a Douglas DC-2 which one is another story. Perhaps Ex Eastern Airlines one which was in service with the RAAF?

It is not a DC-2, but it's family has been covered here.

Sorry.

It's also a loooong way from 'Straya.

How about a Lockheed 12A, perhaps Amelia Erharts aircraft?

Not sure about the cockpit, but Earhart flew a Lockheed 10E not a 12A

Kind of a stretch - DC5? - never seen the cockpit before. The deck angle doesn't look like a taildragger. "Shrug". If it is a taildragger though - how about a B18 Bolo?

Thanks DH106 I stand corrected as you say it was a Model 10E, NR16020 in fact.

Mel

Not that easy. I will stick with a Lockheed Model 12-A Electra Junior perhaps G-AKFR belonging to Sidney Cotton and used to photograph military establishments in Germany and Italy Feb and March 1940?

Correct - but well after AE's disappearance, Paul Mantz (AE's technical consultant) had a 12A which he re-registered as N (or possibly NR) 16020. This ship crashed in California, and the conspiracy theorists had a field day tieing the two together. :ugh:

barit1

Yup - and the same Paul Mantz was the pilot killed during the filming of the original "Flight of the Pheonix"

As I said not that easy .
Another wild guess Howard Hughes Aircraft the Lockheed 14 he flew around the world.

'Taint a 10A or a 12. I've flown both and there's too many windows, among other things.

Barit I remember the flap about that wreck. What the conspiracy freaks forgot to mention, was Mantz's aircraft had R985's and the 10E had 1340's. :O

Good conspiracy theorists NEVER let trifling details get in their way. :yuk:

No one's even near the actual machine, but MReyn24050 has been consistently 'Lockheed' and 'Model 12' despite many distractions!
It is Lockheed L-12A Electra Junior CF-CCT now in the Canadian Aviation Museum - Website here.
http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/d...es/3503231.jpg
The first aircraft to make a dawn to dusk flight across the bulk of Canada.
Pigboat proves why I never trust unvarnished pilot accounts, and goes to the back of the class, :p and MReyn24050 has control!

That was on the tip of my tongue:ugh:

Yeah, but I do have an excuse. The last time I flew either one was in 1967. :O

The 10 I flew is also in a museum, the WCAM in Winnipeg, albeit flyable. It's CF-TCC, ex-TCA, ex-Matane Air Services, ex-Northern Wings.

The 12 I flew was CF-FUS. Used to belong to Shell Oil before we bought it, and I'll be darned if I remember the cockpit looking like that. ;)

JDK
Many thanks, I did a search dwelling on famous aircraft I thought it might be but missed that one.
Here is one that I am sure will go in now time.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...pitquiz153.jpg
Mel

Only a gentle leg pull. ;)

Funnily enough I've flown in 'TCC, back in 2002, from Rockliffe, Ontario, home of the Canadian Aviation Museum. Did you finf the 10 and 12 good to fly? Certainly seem classy machines, and the British equivalent was the Avro Ten...

http://mmpbooks.biz/about/james.jpg

Mel, not only do I know what it is, I know where and when, as I have an almost identical pic I was saving up! I'll keep shtum and let someone else get it. :D

Ok, I'll bite: it can only be the unique Chrislea Super Ace.

I especially like the glasses tray!