I can see where you got the idea, but this is not a Percival - or even British.

Now I have the literary allusion, there is a similarity in role between the mystery aircraft and Harry Percy's namesake, or his Anglo Saxon relatives.

My location is not too far from Hamstead Norreys, one of several local airfields busy on the night of June 5/6 some years ago.

I'm thinking glider, German;

Wild guess: Gotha 345

Not German. Right wartime, I believe it never saw active service.

Not Australian or Swedish (I didn't know Oz made any similaer types - must do some research).

Now, you mentioned Mussolini...............

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Would that be the Aeronautica Lombarda AL 12P?
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...bardaAL12P.jpg

Right country, wrong aircraft.

Possibly the MM510 or 511 by Costruzioni Aeronautiche Taliedo? Of the 2 I would plump for the 511 of which there used to be an example at Museo della Scienza e della Tecnica di Milano.

Yes the CAT TM2, reg no 511. The museum example below:

http://i24.tinypic.com/dg6olv.jpg

I have a contemporary pic at my other location I will post. Obscure enough to be a challenge?

It's all yours.

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:ok: That was a great challenge.:D I learnt a great deal from that, i.e. I wasn't aware that the Italians had built any gliders. Keep them coming.
Mel

Thank you Mel. It is a real challenge to post a cockpit not instantly recognisable by you or Bri.

A picture as promised of the CAT TM2 in its proper timeframe:

http://i20.tinypic.com/161jqsj.jpg

Would someone clue in a dum colonial about H. Percy?:confused:
Woods

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That was really interesting.

I saw the glider in the the museum when I lived in Italy.

Also knew an ex Italian paratrooper, dead now I am afraid, who had some fantastic photo's of it from his days in the service. Well, if not this one then of the same model. He claimed to hate it as he had to jump from it, but he still had the photo's prominently displayed in his home in Treviso.

Having said that, I still did not recognise the challenge. :\

H.Percy.
 

It is I believe in relation to Shakespeare's Play Henry V. The Percy family seeks to initiate a rebellion against King Henry IV and sounds out Lord Henry Percy, surnamed Hotspur, their most formidable knight. Northumberland (another Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland) and Worcester (Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester) try to explain their plans to him. Hotspur is so hot blooded that he explodes and goes off on a tangent at each point where they try to unfold their plot. With his fanatical view of on honor, Hotspur, as crazy as Don Quixote, forms a dramatic contrast with Falstaff.
As I understood it Jenkins thought the cockpit was that of the General Aviation Hotspur glider and referred to it as a Percy. I see he has since deleted his original post. I could of course be totally wrong :)

As you said, S'land, an interesting challenge and remarkable that there is a survivor. I once knew an Italian Air Force Ten Col WW2 fighter pilot who had something like 29 victories over allied aircraft. He showed me his log books and, in 1941, he flew captured Hurricanes and Spitfires. His collection of memoribila was huge and I hope that it has now passed to a worthwhile repository.
This next challenge should not cause any difficulty and is included because of the uniqueness of the panel layout.
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t...pitquiz504.jpg

Reading left to right, VSI, ASI, T&S, RPM and Oil Pressure(?), with compass (?) below.

But no Altimeter. Is that significant?

In the context of this aircraft, quite probably but do not get led astray by this.

WW II German, something like the Fw 189?

WW2, German and nothing like the FW 189

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Please check PMs.
Mel