Thank you MReyn.

It's not often a challenge stands for a week.

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....bab5753b90.png

Hmm, also looks familiar.

My guess is the Otto - Doppeldecker

You're in the right country but this was a monoplane.

But this one is heading in that same direction....
Focke-Wulf?

Not an Fw - this first flew in 1920.

Would you like a photographic clue ?

Judging by the modern instruments fitted then this aircraft is either a flyable vintage aircraft or it is a replica of it's type.Is it not?

First of all my apologies for the above date - it first flew in 1910

There has been one flying replica but I don't know if it is still airworthy.

The image is from a museum replica.

I'll have a guess at Etrich Taube

And a very good guess it is.

Your stage. :ok:

Way to go ... only my second cockpit guess !!!! Although your 1910 clue was the give away.

As it happens I do have one lined up :ok: - what else is there to do under lock down.

https://l6jt9q.am.files.1drv.com/y4m...&cropmode=none

Hurel-Dubois HD-34 I guess....

Bugger - I thought this one might be a stayer - Jhieminga has it with Hurel-Dubois HD-34

I'll retreat to the Aerodrome thread :}

https://zyu8og.am.files.1drv.com/y4m...&cropmode=none

https://zyu8og.am.files.1drv.com/y4m...&cropmode=none

https://qc3gug.am.files.1drv.com/y4m...&cropmode=none

I saw the real thing at La Ferté Alais many years ago, but that strange contraption is hard to forget! ;)

Anyway, on to a new challenge:
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....d231806d0d.jpg

The xpdr code suggests US (or at least operated there). Experimental?

Good question, but I’m going to play it safe and say: yes and no.

ea200,

A minor observation. In the Great White North, we also use 1200 as the VFR code. We also use inches of mercury for pressure settings, but we differ from the US in many other respects, including putting leading zeros on runway numbers less than 10. :)

Yes, I knew that you use 1200 but the code is 1204 which AFAIK is not used in the same way as it is in the US. Quite prepared to accept I might be wrong though. More research needed to
find the cockpit. Maybe tomorrow.

Has this aircraft a French Connection?. The yoke is very similar to that fitted to the Potez 63

https://www.barnstormers.com/listing...php?id=1245455

I bow to MReyn24050

C2j

Your show C2j, I only identified the type of control yoke.

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....2dff2e8cf8.jpg


Let's start with this.

C2j

I was still trying to come up with a suitably vague answer to your question Mreyn, but C2j found the subject aircraft.

I guess you gents are all on the right side of the pond? While equipped slightly differently, the above panel is a distinct part of the cockpit.

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....389de24e28.jpg

For the first 4 years of production, these instruments were additional cost upgrades. The panel they sit in could be blank, one hole in the center or two holes. The compass cost 15.63 and the airspeed 20.00. Oh, yes, an appropriate panel cost .37.

C2j

Could be a Cub....?

Could be...

If so, which one?

Cub Coupe
Cub Cruiser
Cub Sport
Cub Trainer
J2
J3
J4
J5

C2j

Flight deck not so hard to recognise, but the mods. Surprising device.


https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....39a39d217f.jpg

I think the Cub J3 comes closest


Loose rivets,
I cannot see any post in which the Cub challenge is awarded to you, but you have most certainly posted an interesting Cessna 172 cockpit.
I am not sure where you are after but I think it is an F-model.

SLB you're smarter than the average bear. The 1937 -1940 J3 Cub.

You have control.

C2j

Thanks CtJ,

Perhaps we will receive closure from Loose Rivets later but we can continue with this challenge:

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....9e8a6dbd9.jpeg

Oh my goodness!!!!! That control grip. I bought one of those brand new in Lisle St with the intention of putting in my Jag which already had several mods - like pressing the gas down into the carpet kicked out the overdrive. There is no doubt, it's the exact one. 7/6, IIRC.




The cockpit mods are in a 172 https://www.pprune.org/aviation-hist...l#post10750300 operated by Col Carl Crane, and instrument flying pioneer. He lectured at eh USAF advanced instrument flying school - just telling the stories about the old days. They were jaw-dropping.

The brass cross was a patented device called 'The Nose Knows.' If you pinned the cross on a point on the runway, you'd arrive there.

The black box was a prototype blind landing system. As an invited tester, I did one blind landing after another over some weeks of early morning stints. Before San Antonio Tx became busy with the days traffic.


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Fokker S.14 Machtrainer, I’m guessing PH-XIV.

I already expected The quickest answer from your corner!
Fokker S14

All yours

Thanks!
S14Machtrainer_PHXIV_02092019 by Jelle Hieminga, on Flickr

And a new challenge, apologies for the small size of this image.
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....56e29156f3.jpg

Looking at those control columns begs the question is this a rotary machine?

No, not a rotorcraft.

Dashboard layout is a bit like Ryan SC-W but looks more modern.
Is it American?

No, wrong side of the Atlantic.

Experimental aeroplane?

No, not built for testing or as an experimental type.