You're too generous ;) - that makes it a Piper J-4 I think - the side by side version of the Cub?

Open House if correct - I'm still searching grotty Russian videos

Yes, you have it A56. :ok:
Period instrument panel of the Piper J-4 Cub Coupe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_J-4

A56 has declare Open House.

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....5a88dee2e7.png

Hovercraft,or Ekranoplane...?

Neither.

Doesn't look like a bomber - not much in the way of comms or engine instruments etc - maybe a radio operator and a flight engineer on board? I'd guess post war and maybe 4 engined looking at the overhead controls - but that's a lot of aircarft.......................

Airship then...?

I too have no idea about those weird controls but aeroplane it is,

I'd guess it s something that of which few were built - if it was something from Douglas, Lockheed or Bristol someone would have recognised it.

Is it American?>

Big guess
TU -70 or Tu-75?

Neither American nor Russian

Just found this clearer pic which makes the controls look even weirder! That's how you steer a buldozer which may be relevant as this thing evidently flew like one.
How they actually worked is anyone's guess.
9 built


https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....2139b5e04e.png

Not American , not Russian and if it was British someone would have got in fby now. So .... French?

Actually the clue is there - top left F-BAVE - which Google tells me is an Sud SE 2010 -Armagnac

here is F-BAVH​​​​​​​

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....ec0b2caa03.jpg

D'uh oh! Silly me, that one might have run for a while had I not been asleep!

Asturias is in control.

embarrassingly I'd loaded it into the magic software and was playing about enlarging, edge finding etc etc when by accident I panned to the top left................... :ugh:
You're right - I'd never heard of it - looked good but as you say a dog.

Try this

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....59cd440d91.jpg

Lots of these built - in fact I have my doubts that any two now have the same panel

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....8f642c5f65.jpg

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....87c2494e46.jpg

N7943Y

correct

and that is a ????????

but how did you get the registration? I thought I'd cropped it out:(

Its a Piper PA30 Twin Commanche.

The reg isn't visible in your pic but I did a search for light aircraft control yokes and found a loop-style one as in your 15th Jan post for sale which was identified as from Piper, Grumman or somethiing else I forget. So I searched for Piper control yokes and found the pic of the more modern one, matched the layout and decals, then realised the hand and the Cessna in the background were the same, and finally spotted the reg!

Anyhoo, here's an old favourite of mine.


https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....5951db487c.png

Yes - I think there are several hundred still flying - and just about everyone has different sets of instruments

The yoke - something else to cut out of the picture in the future!

Is the challenge American?

Certainly is.

please don’t cut out the yokes, they’re sometimes a useful pointer but seldom a giveaway. In this case it was quite a search and but for the yoke I wouldn’t even have tried the challenge as there was nothing else to go on.

Not many questions were asked. - that would have narrowed the search down a bit.

as in - is the challenge single engined?

This challenge is far from single engined...

American??

Not American either

four engines?

Oh dear - senility seems to have struck, I do apologise. I have been referring to a different pic to the one I posted!

To set the record straight it is American and it is single engined.

Oops!

Ahhh that does help!

think we need another picture

This is another type with various styles of panel.


https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....dd483e9a28.png

Ah - I've seen that 6 pack bottom right somewhere before - and the lights are some sort of boost indication I think when I enlarge & enhance the image

is this a helicopter??

Certainly no boost on this one, and the six pack looks all but identical to the five-pack on your recent PA30.
The twin-tacho is the dead give-eway that its a helo.

sorry I was referring to the set of 6 small gauges on the right

the yellow and green lights seem to have the words BOOST PRESS. and LOW and NORMAL when I invert the image and sharpen it in some image software...............

I guess its civilian not military?

The engine is fuel injected. Boost lights indicate normal and abnormal fuel pressure.
There is a manifold pressure gauge on the panel, this variant is not supercharged.


https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....253bba2098.png

Searching small US helicopter images it might be an Enstrom F28?

Haven't seen one in years................

OK, I'll give you that though it's rather un-specific - as you have the info to give the full description.
Being non-supercharged it's a F28a. No other Enstrom panel looked remotely like this one.
Bloody good helicopters too.

Not a helicopter expert tbh - I always try and avoid them if possible - ;)

Nothing to hand - so Open House

Apologies for centre-fold.

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....0fefed3511.jpg