This looks like an answer for the the current challenge on Name that flying machine????

It's almost a copy of post #1828. Not a serious guess, surely...?

Not from the same country as the Aero
this is a photos of the somewhat lighter version.

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....e9c1abbf7.jpeg

Another clue seems required:

It is a jet-trainer but it is not a jet trainer.

RFB Fantrainer.....OH if correct...

Exactly!

OH called

In order to pull this thread from the dungeons:

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....87efc0a31.jpeg
Bonus points for the name of the pilot

Possibly an Emeraude,or Jodel
possibly a `star`,judging by the watch, who has just done his first solo,as his tie has had a `snip`.....

I'll go for the bonus points: Reinhard Mey.

Good spot. Probably Wilhelmshaven then. Doesn't look like an Emeraude more like a Jodel coaming. Maybe a D117 or D119.

Reinhard Mey is correct.
Wilhelmshafen is then probably also correct as Reinhard did his first solo flight from there and his Tie has been clipped.

Now I need to confess that I do not have the final answer myself on the aircraft.
I have checked the suggestions but up to now I have not found a dashboard that is roughly the same.
The divided dash upper/lower can be found on both suggested makes.
But I have not found pictures of dashboards of which the lower half has an arched extension (downwards) in the middle.

Further clues to search could perhaps be:
The Ball shaped choke/lever on a pin (see shadow)
or the type plate in view in center of the left seat?

So who can help me (us) further on this?

You could email him...?
Could be a SIPA/Gardan

I think that might be Wilhelm Tank's Hanger in the background. I have contacts there but I will only resort to that if nothing else turns up. Mey's contact details are available but perhaps not in the spirit of the game? SIPA cockpit pictures are hard to find but the coaming looks the right shape.

Better version of the photo here: https://www.swr.de/swr4/bw/musik-eve...9rz/index.html
I would hazard a guess that the shadow of a ball shaped choke/lever is the throttle.

Edit: there's a prominent t-handle at the top left of the panel. Could that be a tow-hook release?

Seems an unlikely place for a hook release. The only ones I've come across have been on the floor (C172) or sidewall (Pawnee). The linkage would be somewhat convoluted from where that T handle is and instrument panels don't tend to be that robust. Mind you, I've no idea what else it could be.

Unless of course it's a parking brake?

The SIPA’s all seem to have a handgrip at the top of the windscreen.
I might drop him an email to get final closure.
For the mean time, it turns out to be a rather good challenge. Keep those suggestions coming!

How about an MS 880B. The coaming looks right and I've found a picture showing a T handle in that spot.

I read in an interview that he learned to fly with a guy called Uli Cop, who later died in an aerobatic accident. The lead didn't get me anywhere though.

Edit: I had a look at the MS880, I agree that it is most likely this type. The T-handle, the angle of the lower panel with the curve next to the knee, the other levers along the bottom edge all appear to fit. I thought it might be a taildragger but the Rallye also has a bit of a nose up stance on the ground.

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....7df680fd23.jpg

I think you are correct. I also found some photos of MS 893’s with similar dash.
But that is just a follow up on the MS 880.
EA200 the stage is yours!

Sorry for the delay, busy today. I thought it was a taildragger and when I found the Rallye picture I nearly rejected it. When I checked the ground attitude I remembered that nose high stance.
Good challenge. Open house I'm afraid.

To pull the thread from the dungeons:

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....4d9cceb37.jpeg

Northrop YC-125 Raider, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_YC-125_Raider

Exactly Jelle!
The Northrop YC-125.

I wondered why this aircraft was under powered?
surely there where larger radial engines available?

Thanks SLB! I'll go and search for a new challenge.
Bolting on a different engine is easier said than done. The R-1820s used on the Raider are 1200hp but weigh around 540kg each. Going to a bigger engine would mean either the R-2000, which gives you 1350hp each but at 710kg per engine. A rather modest step up in power. The next one up would be the R-2600 at 1750hp, a nice increase, but weighing in at 930kg each. So each step up means more weight (all figures times three of course) which messes up your payload available and your weight and balance, but also means increased fuel flows to feed those horses, which messes up your range as you most likely can't increase the size of the fuel tanks (and if you do, you're taking another big chunk out of your payload). It's all compromises!

Yes, even some variants of the Wright R1820 were more powerful than the 1200 hp -99 quoted (as were some variants of P&W R1830).

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....8be254493b.jpg

Not to mention the redesign of the engine mounts

Nearest I could get was the Junkers G38.
Am I on the right continent at least?

I'll make it easy and go with no..... (there is a link between that continent and the aircraft type, but it was not built or designed in Europe).

Russian ,or Japanese....?

Neither Russian nor Japanese.

Argentina?

Not Argentina.

Based largely on that clue, its late 20s styling and primitive instrumentation, the most likely suspect I can find is the Fokker F32 - a portly contraption indeed - but I can’t locate a cockpit photo.

No need for that, there’s one in post #1867! 😉
You’re up Justin!

https://cezet.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/pzlm-15-9.jpg
In keeping with the “aircraft only a mother could love” theme...

If this has been up before, apologies.

I like the lock.
As someone would steel this contraption.

I guess it’s more of a gust lock. And yes that is 2 wings through the window;
i.e a biplane

I thought it had an Eastern European look, but I hadn't spotted the lower wing. That and the bracing strut triggered a vague memory.

There's ugly and then there's the PZL-M15 Belphegor:
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....2ca9501176.jpg

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