Guess - Venom and
King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden?? ( on right )

Sorry... 0/3 (half a mark for effort though)

Clue - The first prototype flew in 1946...the two individuals are "well known"... the one with the medals didn`t fall for the sales pitch from the one on the left.

Could that be Mike Lithgow on the left, making it possibly then the Attacker?

Well done RETDPI the Supermarine Attacker it was :ok:... 2/3 The gent on the right was the then Shah of Persia....






(and apparently after a grass take off the furrows caused by the jet efflux were big enough for 3 men to lie down in :eek:)

You have control...

I was hoping that not putting in the Shah would get me off the hook! Nothing to hand at present so could somebody step in please.
I promise that next time I open my big mouth on this column I'll have a picture ready.

Next Challenge !
 

OK, So no offers, I have a very easy one for you all, with a little colour for a change ? Keith.

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...pits/cop27.jpg

Wild Guess... ARV Super Two

Well Windriver, good start, but not there yet ? Keith.

Possibly the Malmö MFI-9? or Bolkow 208 Junior [same aircraft I think]

Good one aviate1138 ! yes it is the Malmo / Bolkow 208 junior, :D look forward to your next challenge. Keith.

To keep the thread going, here is the next cockpit challenge:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r.../WCP080515.jpg

evansb's challenge
 

Interesting looking aircraft Bri. Please check PMs.
Mel

A 'boat, methinks...Curtiss Large America?

Not the Curtiss H-12, but very close.

Curtiss H-4 perhaps?

Not the H-4.

Ermm. The Sopwith Bat Boat 1a?

retract, no it's not that, but it's something interesting..:)

Not a Sopwith. It is a Curtiss.

Well, if it ain't a Large America, p'raps it's the Small 'un?

Reckon Curtiss Flying boat is OK for an inspired guess though!!!

Curtiss HS2L?
Or even an H1?
I feel A b should get it if it is tho'..........

Not an HS2L or H1. The mystery cockpit made history.

Possibly the "Curtiss Hydroaeroplane" with the Sperry Gyro Stabiliser ... The first successful autopilot...

Not the Hydroaeroplane model, although it is a flying boat.

Curtiss Model E?

Sorry, not the model E. There were four of them.

I was thinking of the World Cruisers of 1924 but thought they were by Douglas

As I guess, I would venture that it made a long flight, maybe in a few jits and jots, across a large body of water more or less in May 1919. This would have been shortly before a VV made the same flight the following month, but the VV did it all in one go. :}

The Curtis NC 4 meets the criteria. 4 built and the first aircraft to fly across the Atlantic.

Open house if I am right; travelling at the moment and no access to photo library.

Jumping in with the offer of 'open house'.

A self portrait taken by Pater. Not a cockpit, but a crew station of an aircraft not done before.

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/b...chippy/056.jpg

"Curtiss(?) Challenge"
 

If it is indeed a Curtiss, can I recommend this page which demonstrates the devillish cunning of evansb's challenge?
http://www.msacomputer.com/FlyingBoa...s/Curtiss.html shows the extent of the Curtiss company's flying boat development - even the author admits at the end that the early models "Need another year or two to sort them out...."
Well done! :D

A real stab in the dark from an amateur like me.

Based on a picture I have which shows a former of almost identical shape behind the navigators table.…

The inside of a Wellington ?

Re my challenge: Yes, it was indeed the Curtiss NC-4. The first American aircraft to cross the Atlantic.
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...urtiss-nc4.jpg

Sorry Evans SB. Misread mustpost's reply and jumped in early. Just as well he was correct!

Not a Wellington - that's been done. But close!

Vickers Warwick perhaps...

Geodetic sort of look about it -Vickers Windsor?

Correct. Vickers Valetta T3. A Navigation trainer at RAF Thorney Island taken in 1952. These aircraft were used as flying classrooms - note all the astrodomes!

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/b...chippy/053.jpg

The Varsity has been done before, but the Valetta is a different type being the same airframe but with a different undercarriage layout.

Again, apologies for the breach in protocol. Jenkins, you have control.

Hope it isn't a repeat and I am using my entitlement from Keith on the Bolkow 208.

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k3.../Picture27.jpg

Grrrrrr. spent ages finding a suitable one. As soon as I'm ready to post, pipped at the post. Well played sir.

Mel, please may we have the link to previous cockpits again?

aviate1138's challenge
 

De Schelde S.20.

No surprise as to who came up with the answer! Well done evansb esq!

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k3...icture28-1.jpg

You have control.