https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....4d29cc207a.jpg
I cannot find that this has been here before. Sorry about the quality but I was unprepared

Quality is fine.
We have solved pictures of much worse quality.

Handley Page Halifax?

That's it, happens to be a Halifax MKIII picture from the Pilot's and Flight Engineers notes. Over to you Bergerie1 !

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....cb21529e68.jpg

Is that the reg on the panel?

Miles magister?

oldpax, it looks American to me, particularly the ASI and the ignition switch.

India Four Two, American - yes

Yes, registration and type... ;)

I did search for C-FARA and found 2 registrations of different/ non-matching type.
Couldn’t decipher the type (on my phone) so went searching for side-by-side stick cockpits.

This is the Fairchild 24 as modelled for FSX by Lionheart Creations.
Perhaps still better to wipe out registration and type in the future.
It seems some fellow Ppruners let this one pass because of that.
Could also be that it is an animated picture but I personally have no problem with the way of detail and accuracy this one has been done.

Keep them coming!

SLB, Yes, correct - it is a Fairchild 24. Sorry if I didn't follow the rules of this thread correctly, will try to do better next time. Over to you!!

It might be that this has been played before.
But not in color:

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....e48955358.jpeg

The control columns look a bit like a (old) Beech

It is a one-off but build by professional manufacturer(s).
No idea were they acquired all parts but it is not considered American because of the yokes.

Time for some clues:
It already featured in 2009 in black and white.
From his preferences displayed in these threads I would have expected a reply from JHieminga.

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....aed02d032.jpeg

I'm trying hard SLB.... but I haven't cracked this particular puzzle yet.

I'm guessing a European two-seater with perhaps a strange engine placement seeing as the RPM indicator has some yellow bands. That might be due to a propshaft harmonic issue.... but I'm really guessing here. The fact that it has two recent Trig radios in that colour shot implies that it still flies, or did until recently.

50 years of flight ended in 2018 in a museum.

4-seater actually

Is the museum in the Netherlands?

No in Germany.
(that’s where Jelle normally get’s his Inspiration for one-off built challenges)

It sure has some MBB 223 Flamingoheritage central pedestal, same knobs, size, and vintage but of course not the yokes and panel are totally different.

Then you have one of the contributing manufacturers.
Shouldn’t take long now.

Time for a last clue:
The aircraft has no metallic structure.

Is this the MBB 223-M4? MBB 223 fitted with a Porsche engine. And currently in the museum in Schleissheim, Munich?

No it is not an aircraft built by MBB alone but MBB contributed the Glassfibre knowledge for this plane.

I am starting to doubt if this would help?

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....7554b77d1.jpeg

ASW finally got it right with the Leichtflugtechnik-Union (LFU) consortium 205.

Indeed initially build to research use of GRP in small aircraft.
From there is was used to measure drag and lift, study boundary layer and transition from laminar flow into tubulencey. Then testing laminar flow airfoils. Last testing was measuring influence of sun radiation into temperature of the wing surface.

Open House declared.

Interesting type, but I had never heard of it before :uhoh: It turned up at Schleissheim after my last visit to the place...

Think I've used it before (photo is by me in my then machine), but appropriate to the theme started by SLB and the LFU205...

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....4d43bde00f.jpg
(will happily withdraw if someone has something new to hand)

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....c69ced736f.png
I reckon that's a Libelle Condor...and if it flies as exquisitely as it looks I want one!

Close enough Meleagertoo,

It is the cockpit of my then glider a, Glasflugel H-201 Libelle. Linkage with the LFU205 it that it set the standard for GRP sailplane construction in the late 1960's. Particularly for it's use of a foam, rather than balsa, sandwich construction for the wings. Something like 600 built, which for the sailplane fraternity is enormous.

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....6475300107.jpg

And yes, quite delightful to fly, though rather light and lacking in high speed polar performance by modern standards.

Meleagertoo has control.

Asw28, If this was “which aerodrome” I would say that pic of your Libelle was taken at Bidford?

Open House again.

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....7c0b8db486.jpg

Fourteen built. Last two were named Everest and Enterprise.

Everest and Enterprise.

Let’s not forget Egeria, Elsinore, Euterpe, Ettrick, Elysian, Endymion, Eddystone, Elysean and Euryalus. All members of the Ensign class, which was the name of the prototype A.W. 27.


https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....33017df2b4.jpg


I can only find twelve names. Were the other two unnamed?

Eeyore and Euchre?

- Ed ;)