dook,#678 would get you the `AOC carpet shuffle` these days...!!
Aircraft is FU-25 Fletcher Defender,brother of the FU-24 cropsprayer,later becoming pac-750......OH if correct...

Nowadays ,you`d buy an AT-8O2 for the COIN job

The Fletcher Defender it is. :ok:

sycamore has called OH.

Something for a dull wet Friday....
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Label above throttle/rpm is in French so is it French ?

Was F-Reg but not French....

I've found a pic of the throttle/rpm lever which are in a Zlin.

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Caption says it's a Trener Master.

My pic is a Z-326 ;no RPM control,it`s mixture,fixed pitch wooden prop,;your pic is rear cockpit of -326....
Z526 has metal automatic CSU prop,and solo flown from rear cockpit for CoG reasons...all switchery in back cockpit..
Go ,tighten yr neg.G strap right up,and have a workout...!

and the mags were left ON in the rear....!!!!

No workout - I'm president of the World Anti-Jockstrapping Society.

Got large Rolls Royce of single malts in hand at the moment.


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Could be Fairey Battle....?

Sorry - no cigar as they say…...

You are close though.

Close enough to be a Fulmar?

Close enough to be a Fulmar indeed.

Your strap in.

Thanks, sufficiently different from a Firefly. On the road all day tomorrow, so cannot play. Anyone else for an Open House?

Knowing you, it's probably Dutch.

It has that famous "Mig clock", so is it Russian?

Supercharged ?

It look like the tubular frame structure should be covered, so is it some kind of restoration ?

dook just beat me to it, it looks like a WWII airframe, but the photo is modern and if you look in the background there's a vice on a workbench, so I agree that it's likely underr restoration somewhere and going by bear's recent posts, it's probably a Dutch aircraft in a museum in the Netherlands :8

It doesn't look like a furniture factory in the background so I don't think it's a Pander!! :)

How about a Fokker?

... and near sea-level?

I'm also intrigued by all the switches on the right.

A weapons panel ?

I just followed up my own questions and goggled WWII Fokker Fighter under restoration and found this very interesting video

Fokker D.XXI Fighter Replica to Fly in 2020 | Warbirds News

Edited to say that there are two videos on my link, both very interesting!

Dunno if it's the same one as bear's but it sure looks similar, if so it's a Fokker D.XXI ?

The altimeter looks like it is in feet, the ASI in km/hour and the turn and slip is very unusual.

PS The panel looks the same in SincoTC's video at 2:13

Just call TC Sherlock.


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Thank you bear, a very good and interesting Challenge :ok:

In case anybody missed the edit to my link above, it actually contains two very interesting videos..

All brilliant and highly detailed, but one shot that I did find a little disturbing showed two people working on a cylinder assembly, however, they were using the upper surface of their brand new wing as a workbench!!! True the engine is a new crate unit and so is not dripping nasty black oil, but even clean lube will make a nasty stain on that beautiful pristine plywood skin!! :ugh:

Congratulations to Jack van Egmond and his Grandson Tom who started building the replica in 2014 and the ATN team who finished it and look forward to see it take to the the air next year!

Here's my next cockpit to find:

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Morning TC.

I see struts and what I think are two guns in front of the cockpit which might be Vickers.

I thus think it's a biplane fighter from WW1.

British ?

Morning dook,

Your eyes don't deceive you, it is a biplane fighter and those are Vickers .303 Machine guns!

Although its direct ancestry goes back to WWI, this particular development is from between the wars!

It was British

Deja Vue .

Martinsyde Buzzard.

My source was the FA, but as usual it is in Deja Vue, but it's not a Buzzard as built for the war, this one was later and had a radial engine!

Must be the Nimbus then.

err....no.

If it's a Jaguar radial might it be the ADC-1 ?

Not might be mate! it is indeed the ADC-1

With the liquidation of the Martinsyde Company in February 1924 and the acquisition of its stores, stocks and goodwill by the Aircraft Disposal Company, it was fundamentally an F.4 Buzzard airframe mated with a 380hp Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar radial engine. The prototype A.D.C.1 was first flown on 11 October 1924, this subsequently participating in the 1925 and 1926 King's Cup races, and considerable foreign interest was displayed in the type. In the event, only one order for the A.D.C.1 materialised, this being from Latvia for eight aircraft which were delivered in 1926, at least two of these surviving until 1938.

dook has control :ok:

I might have misread Deja Vue, or have they got it wrong.

Anyway,


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Looks more like car than an aeroplane. 1935 Ford 10?

There's a good reason it looks like a car.

It's not a Ford.

dook, I was being facetious, as you probably knew. However...……… is it one of the attempts at a flying car?

Taylor Aerocar?

It is indeed a flying car, but not a Taylor.

It should now not be too difficult to find.