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seems hard to find a manual or a diagram
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Originally Posted by bafanguy
(Post 11627146)
If it's a fixed gear airplane, what is that lever on the overhead panel just above and left of the left throttle ?
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Some intrigueing sleuthing going on here - but what aircraft is the challenge cockpit from?
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Originally Posted by meleagertoo
(Post 11627368)
Some intrigueing sleuthing going on here - but what aircraft is the challenge cockpit from?
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....5ba84f0de0.jpg |
Originally Posted by thnarg
(Post 11627299)
Looks like the fuel system schematic and there’s a lever for each engine, each in a different position.
Ah so...you have a sharp eye, Sir (or Madam as the case may be). |
Over to Noyade.
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European?
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No, USA.
This machine was flown by General Fechet and Captain Eaker. |
So a Loening Amphibian?
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It's a Curtiss O1C Falcon.
The swept screen, fairing and distinctive twin rigging wires... https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....0a7d07a506.png |
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"The war's largest plane never flew." - Nowarra.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens-Schuckert_R.VIII https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....31cfa6d5f2.jpg |
Back to Noyade.
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Open House 🏠
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Blowing up the photo I can see a possible reg # 6677 in top centre of the dashboard
The USAAF had aB17 44-6677 but its not that and there was an N-6677 which was apparently a mid -70's BOWLING BENSEN GYROCOPTER Rotorcraft (?*I|?) and it doesn't look like that. some of the military sites show several F-16's numbered with 66's and 77's but its not that either. N American? |
Mach number dial up to Mach 1 - so subsonic - ish - probably a post war jet?
the Museum has a 25 year certificate of some sort on the wall on the right no armament seems to be operable from the cockpit - so a trainer? In fact nothing in the way of radar at all - so two seat? day time only?? pretty basic |
Is this in the National Museum of ASAF?
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Pretty sure that's a C82a (not a C119) on the left and that narrows it down considerably so Wright Paterson seems the most likely location as the other museums exhibits don't fit the colour scheme but the hangar doesn't look right.
Challenge aircraft is an early-ish twin engined jet possibly prototype or experimental as Asturias has surmised. Two RPM gauges most unergonomically sited are calibrated 0 - 90 which os presumably 9,000RPM which makes little sense, even the early Goblins made 12-14,000 or so. |
How about the Bell XP-59A Airacomet?
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Interesting speculation chaps. You're collectively on the right track, but it's not the Airacomet.
Here's an external clue: https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....7b84825b1.jpeg |
Bloody great flaps alright - and on the cockpit dial they go out to 30 degrees at least..... was that the experiment they were carrying out?
that looks like a US star on the top wing so defo American I guess |
Pretty sure it is Hagerstown aviation museum.
But that is one of the poorer websites on their collection. |
Northrop X-4 Bantam.
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Yes, so much for my Hagerstown story.
i will humbly get back in my hut. |
Yes, it's the Bantam.
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....da70289195.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_X-4_Bantam Noyade has control. |
damn - N -6676............................. need better software - or better eyes....................
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a glider?
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Looks distinctly painful....
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Not a glider.
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Autogyro?
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Is it a BD5?
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Not a gyroplane, nor from Bede.
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Only one built.
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I'm not surprised - American?
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Is it the `slew-wing` X-?? jobba...?
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