Ha - roof rack! No wonder we never thought of that!

It does.
Proceed. :)
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....f7bd17b58f.jpg

G’day Noyade and thanks. That goes in my training file.

A genuine query if I may because I don’t know this one. Regular readers will know my aircraft recognition has limitations and looking on the interweb recently concerning a family connection I saw this labelled as a Handley Page Halifax cockpit:

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....156506f59.jpeg
… which it obviously isn’t, but what is it?

No prizes, just gratitude (although Noyade might send you a certificate).

I love the light switch above the throttles, my first house had those.
No idea what cockpit though.

Not so difficult this time: AVRO ANSON MK 1. K6183. Beautifully restored.
It's for sale too! https://www.classicaircraftsales.com...ngs/avro-anson

Thanks for that D26, and you’re right it is a lovely restoration. Ironically I was at the Omaka museum earlier this year and highly recommend a visit. And Dixi, that brass switch is for the headlight!

D26 can now resume normal service.

Thanks thnarg. The brass switch and the magnetic compass pointed to a British aircraft. The instrument in general look WW2 and the size of the cockpit to a medium size twin engine aircraft.

Open House please.

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....e59d8eb957.png

Very quiet over here today so let’s start.
Twin engine, open cockpit (or sliding canopy?). Can’t see a gear lever unless it’s one of those at the bottom of the column, so fixed gear? Wouldn’t have liked to fly it in IMC with those instruments, so military?

Weird looking thing:

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....9b48bf790.jpeg

How the heck did you do that?

looks like the Twin Mustang

Asturias has control with yet another miraculous ident!

No he doesn't! My mistake, this is Beagle's win.
How did you get that Beags? Did you recognise it or research it? - I thought this was so unusual it'd escaped most peoples'notice.

To me it bears very little resemblance to the Twin Mustang, or to anything else for that matter. A real one of a kind.


https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....3601fa2ef5.png
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....6cf5be7fd4.png

The Belyayev DB-LK was a prototype Russian long-range bomber, whereas the much smaller F-82 was a long-range fighter:


https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....5143c86d95.jpg

Err, actually meleagertoo, I identfied it first and was waiting until 24hr before posting a new challenge!

But as you wish....

Sorry Beagle, my mistake - of course you did. Post amended.

Thanks, meleagertoo!

Next cockpit challenge:


https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....835f04d586.jpg

That's an easy one!

Focke-Wulf Fw 190D-9?


https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....8c2fb492fa.jpg

Another one - saw this one at HARS Aviation Museum in Albion Park...


https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....1234571d84.jpg

Nope. Close though.....LATER!

69 built, but only 1 still exists.

That would be the sole remaining TA 152 H-0/R11.

CORRECT!! Well done!!

Fabulous aeroplane it was too - fortunately too late in the war to be a significant problem for the Allies.

D26, You have control!

Thanks BEagle! Now this one:


https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....069019cc11.jpg

Bit quiet in here:

Morane-Saulnier M.S.406

Perhaps?

Asw28

Very close, but there is room for refinement.

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....50a4b60584.jpg

Any takers out there? Now the full picture.

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....d45221c2eb.jpg

Schlepp..?

No. There is a gun sight! The type was the main stay during WW2 in a small country. The Schlepp was a different A/c but same engine.

MS -410?

Swiss EKW D-3801? (M.S 412)

The EKW D-3801 it is!
The type was the mainstay of the Swiss Air Force in WW2 together with the Me109E. The D-3801 was licence built from the MS 406 and developed further mainly by installing a 1000 hp engine instead of the 860 HP one. Further development did not come forward as after the war, Switzerland bought 130 P-51D's surplus in Germany. Only a few years later the jet age started, as Switzerland went to buy De Havilland DH 100 Vampires. etc...

The pictures are from the sole airworthy D-3801 HB-RCF (J-143) operated in Switzerland. The owners went to great lengths to have the cockpit as original as possible. Beside a modern radio and transponder only the altimeter and the g-meter are modern, all other stuff is WW2. The picture Noyade has published, is from some years back.

In this case, Noyade has the lead!

D26,
It was perhaps better if you would have blotted out the registration number in the second photo.
Much people are tempted to google it.

Thanks D26 - but please give control to asw28-866

You are right SLB, that's an easy way to go. I did blot out the call-sign on the two b/w pictures but didn't get reactions. I will think of that on my next post.
Thanks Noyade, very generous.

Then: control has asw28-866!

May I suggest that we resume the usual business please?

asw28-866 has control!

Apologies all, I missed the fact control had returned to me. Thank you D26 for the prompt, a quick one I suspect...

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....e9a0eb11fa.jpg

Another view, first image posted I suspect is accidentally reversed, I believe this to be correct canopy orientation...
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....31d7a14eea.jpg

Is it a Fournier?

Not a Rene Fournier design, though contemporary with some of his best known marks.

Is it European?