Any idea what the hand wheel on the binnacle of the Latecoere is for?

I think it's a trim wheel.

From a modelers website:
”the distinctive autopilot column”
But no idea if he means the same pinnacle or how he knows it is that.

Seawings

from: French site


https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....59f2dd8d6.jpeg

Remember he is a modeller.

Apart from trim controls it also had the flap and float controls.

You could hold a barn dance on that flight deck - or self isolate for coronavirus and still fly............

OnceMoreAloft, you stay with your Open House?
Or please post that Big Unkown cockpit.
We will help you out.

It is unusual to post 2 challenges in a row.
But if no one takes up the Open House i feel forced to do so.
Has anybody something at hand?

Please do so. I've tried twice but am having some sort of technical issue and keep failing.

A small contribution -

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....c31c21af85.jpg

Dornier 335 ‘Pfeil’?
Just a guess, but on second thought it might be British as well...

Wonderfully unique double handed control column. The “Pfeil” had hydraulically assisted ailerons, wonder if that setup was in case of hydraulic failure when more “welly” would be needed. Later, if the A-4 “Skyhawk” had the same problem, it used an extension pulled up out of the top of the control column to get extra leverage.

yes - the big Dornier - 474 mph on two bloody great engines

having read a bit about them over the years and seen quite a lot written I was amazed to discover they only built 38 or so actual fighters - even tho they started in 1942. The German's produced a load of interesting and quite high performance designs after 1941 but never seemed to b able to get them into production (luckily!)

Started in 1943 perhaps, but first flight Oct 43, first production orders in May '44, factory destroyed by bombing - it didn't stand much of a chance..

I did Oberpfaffenhofen where they were build last year in the WA thread. There are some DO 335s in various states of disrepair.

https://z4nu4w.db.files.1drv.com/y4m...&cropmode=none

Oh dear, that means I have to come up with a new challenge... I hadn't counted on that at all. After coming up with the Dornier 335 I realised that the windscreen was a bit like the Bristol 188 as well. We'll go with this one then.

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....ab1afa1d38.png

https://i.imgur.com/NXWntgE.jpg

Do 335 at her birthplace in Oberpfaffenhofen in 1980ies

Which one is that? I thought there was only one survivor in the NASM?
Edit: disregard, I already found the answer...

Fuji FA-200 perhaps?

Correct! You're up MReyn24050.

Try this ope:-

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....626b619149.jpg

European? very neat................

I got as far as concluding its probably an aerobatic type.

Cant see much in the way of engine controls... and a very 1980's radio added centre

It is European

Is it Italian?

It is not an Italian aircraft.

Motor glider?
I was thinking about Grob but I found no match.
German though?

It is a German Aircraft.

Is it by Sportavia ?

Putzer SR-57 Busard ?

Sorry for the delay, it is not by Sportavia neither is it the Putzer SR-57 Busard, This aircraft was earlier..

Something from Dittmar ?

edit: this challenge has now been up for a week and we have no positive clues.

I give up.

No movement time for a clue, it was a German and designed as a trainer in the 1930s

A Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun.

Or an Arado 79B ?

Sorry not the Bf 108.

Ah, now I know why it looked familiar. I have seen it in the museum in Berlin.

Do you mean the one in my post above ?

Yes the one in your answer.

Dook is correct it is the cockpit of an Arado 79. Dook has control.