A further clue might be required:

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....343a6e62b.jpeg
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....d9b684ca4.jpeg

Let's narrow it down a bit. It looks European, possibly Italian?

It is indeed Italian.

Mama mia! That was a lucky guess. :)

Single-engined, variable pitch. Fighter?

Yes, Yes and Yes

I've looked at all the obvious candidates with no luck. I'll leave it for the UK morning shift.

My last clue:
This was an Italian export product for the 3 crowns.
This one was however recovered from an Italian lake:

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....a56917329.jpeg

Reggiane Re 2000 Falco - that crowns clue made it easy!

OH if correct.......................

Yes I guessed so,

Open House called,
I hope India42 has something in stock?

Slb,

Somehow I missed the Falco during my search of Italian monoplane fighters. I'm surprised Asturias didn't get it sooner, since Reggio Emilia is only a short distance west of Ferrara! :)

Looking in my quiz folder, I see something that looks familiar. I'm not sure if we've had this one recently:


https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....483e17a865.png

Happy New Year to everyone. Let's hope 2021 and the upcoming Year of the Ox (China) or Buffalo (Vietnam) is better than this one.

I was out on my daily constitutional TBH and had just settled down to go through every Italian fighter of all time when Bear kindly popped up the Swedish clue...


Lets hope for a better 2021 than 2020!!

I've found another picture which may help:

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....42c5ef5a1f.png

This aeroplane was designed as a bomber but was also used as a civil transport.

Temperatures in degrees C it looks like - so European?

Yes, built in Europe.

i42,that depends on your Politiks.....

Very long shot as I have found no cockpit photos:
The Russian built license Vultee V-11
BSh-1 as bomber
PS-43 as Aeroflot liaison aircraft.

sycamore,

There is nothing political about the definition of Europe. :)

Slb,

Not the BSh-1

But Russian is correct?

Да, Russia is correct. It is geographically in Europe. I even went so far as to check that the factory was west of the Urals. ;)

If you look carefully, you can see Cyrillic lettering on the VSI.

The initial civil version had a three-person rear open-cockpit. The subsequent version was more civilized:

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....47202427f1.jpg
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....53318b066f.jpg

The military troop transport had more spartan accommodations. I could see the Hereford Hooligans going for this one! :)
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....c09c650068.jpg

Polikarpov P2???

"Close but no cigar" ;)

sticking with Polikarpov, add 3 to make it an R-5?

Glider pilots are good at arithmetic! The Polikarpov R-5 it is:
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....a417734b5e.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polikarpov_R-5

It featured in a recent What Aerodrome, hence it looked familiar to me.

866 has control.

Thank you I42, don't think we have had this one before...

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....3b499c1790.jpg

866

Fournier motor glider ?

I think it’s an early German motor glider - Scheibe or Schleicher? I can’t decide if that giant lever is for pitch-change or engine retraction.

A lever of that size and prominence must be for something important. What's that small gray wheel on the right ? Elevator trim perhaps ? The red stripe at the top would indicate zero trim ?

The operating arm on the lever goes forward so I think it's the pitch change mechanism for a nose-mounted engine. I see a Both position on the mag switch so presumably dual-ignition.

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....119c697c78.jpg
Prominent lever is indeed for mechanical pitch change. Interestingly for this particular type both UV and I42 are part correct! My uncle Brian in the prototype.

I've seen similar levers in an RF-5, but less massive, and mounted in the middle of the panel. Is this an earlier Fournier?

There is a Fournier element to this aircraft, but not an “RF” type. A clue was provided when I wrote that both your initial response and that of UV correct in part.

SFS-31 Milan ?

(RF4 + SF27 hybrid, 27 + 4 = 31. The Ka12 about the same time frame was a much nicer, better engineered beast)

That’s the one Fitter2, the SFS-31 Milan, the floor is yours


https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....591504239.jpeg

engine stopped, prop feathered, as a glider, but don't see a canopy ????

I thought I recognised the Milan - sat in the cockpit once, but never flew it.

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....b4b02c536f.jpg

I don't have much to hand, so a nice easy one.

Like the real thing, only smaller!

asw28-866:
I wouldn't disagree

2750 RPM limit suggests O-200 and wooden biplane.

I'll take a stab at Isaac's Fury.

An accurate stab, Mark 1 (I said it was an easy one) This pretty example, being admired at the 2010 LAA Rally

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....1d31171c60.jpg

Over to you.