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No, the RAF didn't.
oncemorealoft, All you had to do was enter the name of the photographer in the Airliners.net search engine. |
Sorry. Open House I don’t have access today. |
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WW1 or earlier open-cockpit flying boat I would say.
If I'm right, then at that time the Americans were the most prolific. |
All true!!! |
Furthermore the biggest American manufacturer was Curtiss.
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Do go on, down this waterway |
Sixteen of them on my favourite site.
Starting the search..... |
My good site.
Curtiss H-16. Your photo is on there ! |
I was just about to clue that I myself always start at the Z on mil-airfields when searching for a cold era Aerodrome. But you came up to H-16 by yourselves. dook has control |
Thank you bear. From another site I used to play I have quite a few good bookmarks.
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....ddbb6d069d.jpg |
I am looking American but not the Convair deltas with the forked stick... |
It's not American - it was a European twin-engine fighter.
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Do -335 Arrow......OH if correct...
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Bingo with the Do-335. Good shooting sycamore.
sycamore has called OH. |
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Check the flying machine thread.
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Looks incomplete and room for glass screen.
Kit-built ? |
The panel is complete and no kit build some dials are in the lower console or the roof console https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....17a15c3b5.jpeg https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....516871e72.jpeg |
Edgley Optica.
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Edgley Optica it is. Could have been a better option for NPAS? |
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A non-jet, non-Sabre powered Typhoon? Bf 108?
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I will give you the 108.
It's actually a Nord Pingouin II. Over to you. |
Very generous of you, dook. I had forgotten about the Nord version, but I did notice that the panel was different than the 108s that I looked up. It was the forward folding window that was the clue for me. I had been recently watching videos on the restoration of Kermit Weeks’ 108. Standby until I get to my computer where I’ve got something lined up, ready for takeoff. |
Not generous at all.
It is an Me108 after all, and I don't believe in making things difficult. It's supposed to be fun. |
Sorry for the delay chaps. I can't even use the old "clocks changed" excuse, since ours don't change until next Sunday. ;)
This is the third "new to me" aircraft within a week. The picture was taken by a friend and posted with his permission: https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....28286aa973.png |
I had enough trouble with your "new to me" bloody helicopter !
I think I'll wait for someone to solicit a clue. |
Two observations.
The engines seen to quite high revving. Switches to select boost, indicating perhaps that it is not normal or necessary to use it. Rotax engines ? |
Bit unusual to have a stick instead of wheel on a twin...
Rather flat windscreen... competent layout Possibly homebuilt...? |
Proper sticks mate - none of these wheel contraptions.
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AH,but you can have your lunch tray on yr knees with a wheel.....ask Jenks..
American....?.. |
Where this aircraft was flown I don't think lunch trays would have been an issue.
Lycosaurus engines. American. Not homebuilt, but limited production. The sharp-eyed will have spotted the gear lever. I looked in vain for the gear warning lights. They are obviously out of shot, but if you could see them, there would only be "two greens". |
I had noticed the gear selector and also the calibration of the hydraulic pressure gauge.
The pressures do seem to be potentially high. Is it a twin pusher or perhaps an amphibian ? |
Nice try, but no* and no. I wondered about the hydraulic pressure gauge too. As far as I know, the only systems that might require significant hydraulic pressure, are the gear and flaps. Perhaps they just used an available gauge. Designed in the 60s, nine were built, only eight flew, one crashed, six were scrapped and Serial Number 1, in my picture, still flies. * Interestingly, the designer subsequently built a completely new pusher twin, to fulfill the same rôle. |
Guess where I'm going looking for "POP 9".
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Here’s a further picture for the UK early risers. sycamore mentioned a “Rather flat windscreen ...”. I would agree: https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....ee6df3446.jpeg |
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That's the one. It makes "The Shed" look positively streamlined!
STOL twin built for missionary work in South America. Evangel 4500 My friend saw Alaska-based N4501L at Penticton BC. He was told it was there for painting, prior to going to a museum. https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....2fb4fcd951.jpg C2j has declared Open House. |
Praise the Lord! Luckily He looks to us all being equal, I often wonders if that applies to aircraft as well when they meet their Maker? Nice challenge please do tell us more about the pusher! |
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