I have...

1. Ensign
2. Egeria (was to be transferred to India Trans-Continental Airways as Ellora - but prevented by the outbreak of war)
3. Elsinore
4. Euterpe
5. Explorer
6. Eddystone
7. Ettrick
8. Empyrean
9. Elysian
10. Euryalus
11. Echo
12. Endymion
13. Everest
14. Enterprise.

But Ensign was enough for me - over to you India.

Thanks Noyade,

A very elegant-looking aircraft but I wonder if the fin was large enough for the engine-out cases.

Sorry, no new cockpit photos in my Quizzes folder, so Open House.

To fill the Open House:

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....0f0dd29d7.jpeg

Is the image reversed perhaps?

No, the David Clark headset logo is readable.

The brown striped cushion under the purple one is Sears Roebuck 1960's fabric - the best example is the recliner used by Frasier's dad in the TV series - not the height of designer chic........

American homebuilt?

American factory built

Good to know that. I think however that the Sears Roebuck was already a second recover of the original.

The cushions in the front cockpit are in better shape

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....4eed6545a.jpeg

New Standard D-25?

Indeed, You have control.

Thank you SLB.

Should be easy....?


https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....d5b53ab0bd.jpg

Side by side seating pilot and wso, twin engine, 60s avionics; got to be a F1-11

To fill the time till 24 hrs:
I was looking in the thread
Aircraft with unusual landing gear configurations
This because of the indicator lights:

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....fb9b48d5c.jpeg
No success, but I think we can post it there also:

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....e9945dc96f.png

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....8daf35435.jpeg

The F-111 gear:
Unusual arrangement, but it seems to work well. :ok:

I've always been fascinated by the F1-11 ejection capsule concept. It must of been a little strange for those who did eject.

Yep. All yours Bob. :ok:

Dunno why, but I was impressed with the coffee thermos embedded at the back....


https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....e2b45feeea.jpg

Open house

As no one has taken the open house invite, I'll offer this one up. It's a bit easy but the only one I have to hand.
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....0ab519db53.jpg

Wow. 90 degrees of bank. zero ft., 33 knots and total electrical failure.;)
No idea.

Looks like Smiths instruments, cross pointer FD, SEP 6 type AP servo indicator, large rad alt, twin turbo prop - red beta lights?
Square shutter system indicators.
Perhaps a 748, BA flight deck version and equipment.

or

Andover

under normal conditions the aircraft would be between 200 to 500ft at 220kts and up to 60 degrees of bank. Definitely not a prop or a twin but sometimes flown as a twin.

issa helo ,or something like an Osprey(V-22)......?

The altimeter sub-scale is millibars only, so definitely not American.

No idea from the original image, but the clues have pointed me towards the Nimrod MR2.

Nothing to hand so OH I'm afraid if correct.

'866

It looks like the Nimrod's AHs go to sleep on their side when not powered.
I wonder if that is an intentional feature?
Probably a great British design to go on one of the world's ugliest aircraft :E
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....990f06845b.jpg

It certainly is the P1 panel from the Mighty Hunter. There's a reason the horizon topples to 90 degrees; I could explain but it's been a long time and the flight instruments are not exactly straight forward (the picture is actually from the ground school Flight Instruments lesson slides!).

For those wondering about the 'flown as a twin' comment, The Speys (RB.168 Mk.250) were at their most efficient at 92% RPM so to keep them in that band on task, we'd shutdown (or idle) engines on task to conserve fuel (obviously dependent on AUW and Alt).

Another...


https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....9f5bc482bc.jpg

Fast.
Floater.
Italian.

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....2e0fe2faff.jpg

The picture gives it away, it so looks like a Schneider Trophy aircraft. Built for the 1930 race but wasn't finished on time; did establish a speed record in 1934 though. My guess is the Macchi Castoldi MC-72. Open house if right.

That's him Bob. :ok:

Open House.

I found this cockpit in state of despair during restauration
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....54c094017.jpeg

Same type but completely different dashboard
(Other instruments as well)

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....a3952c98a.jpeg

Not many takers or not many triggered?
The type was produced in single seat with high back and low back.
The two seater (I think) only as high back.
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....800bfb1ad.jpeg

VNE 400 mph - not a Biplane then?

A few strange things...

The Manifold Pressure gauge in the last pic is marked “2” meaning a multi engined aircraft. However the gauge in the other pic before is not so marked. I’m assuming it is a single engined aircraft, using a gash MP Gauge.

The speed limitations are placarded in MPH but the ASI is calibrated in knots. Surely not good practice?

VC (max cruise speed) is placarded as 270 MPH but the speed on the ASI (top of the green arc) is 280 Knots. A big difference....Is that right or have I got something wrong here?

So is it a high performance, single engine, American, Warbird type and tail wheel judging by the nose up attitude?

UV
I am sorry when I have let you off onto the wrong track.
With my remark of a completely different dashboard and instruments I was hoping you would concentrate on the surroundings of the cockpit and not the non-original instruments.
This particular aircraft has probably been completely renewed for instruments.
Original instruments were in different units and other alfabet.

I don’t know much about speeds, perhaps somebody else can shed a light on that after the type is revealed.

Yes, high performance, monoplane, war era, tail dragger
1 more different cockpit:

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....79cff6436.jpeg

Post 2196 gave away the lineage for me, looks distinctly Yakalov. As to which one, the high/low/ back, single/two-seat, sentence leads me to suggest, YAK-7.

'866