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It is European
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Subject type originated from a design competition for a competition design!
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....80e65ccab3.jpg |
On closer inspection, it would appear that canopy hinging (left or right) varied between specific aircraft...
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Noyade has it with the Rollason Beta, as only four were factory built, and modified post manufacture, I think the difference between B.1, B.2 and B.2a is mute! My late father campaigned with a Beta Formula One air racing for a time in the mid-70's, resulting in many days staring at the sky on a pylon, watching for cut corners!
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....14babfd730.jpg Noyade has control. |
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interesting cockpit
American? |
Indeed it is.
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looks like passenger windows below and behind cockpit - I have a feeling we've seen this before in another thread/challenge
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Beta variations
Originally Posted by asw28-866
(Post 11483803)
Noyade has it with the Rollason Beta, as only four were factory built, and modified post manufacture, I think the difference between B.1, B.2 and B.2a is mute! My late father campaigned with a Beta Formula One air racing for a time in the mid-70's, resulting in many days staring at the sky on a pylon, watching for cut corners!
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....14babfd730.jpg Noyade has control. |
Originally Posted by Asturias56
(Post 11483878)
looks like passenger windows below and behind cockpit - I have a feeling we've seen this before in another thread/challenge
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....1d2902d0bb.png Photo is from the net. Yes - passengers, seen congregated around the aircraft sipping pre-flight drinks. :) https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....45267af440.png |
Beer drinkers? In AMERICA between the wars - I thought there was Prohibition? :eek:
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Some of the US Airmail aircraft had cockpits like that but I can't see any passenger space
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Probably celebrating the end of prohibition.
Wiki calls it an "Amphibious Airliner." |
It's a Loening C2 Air Yacht.
Not to be confused with a Phutney-Creech Land Yacht, though nearly aw wacky! https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....9ea323e638.png |
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This reminds me I must book an appointment with my optician.
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appears to have 4 engines......................
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Did it go into `service,or is it a `test/experimental a/c...?
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It went into service allright, though this pic is a prototype.
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Was it a large hovercraft...?
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Concorde prototype?
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Thanks mel. The fire panel and those 1960s-recording-studio dials were a clue.
A quickie with two possible answers… https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....b6aeaa1a1.jpeg |
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Forgot this was still running! Yes, HP42 or maybe a short haul HP45. There’s that lovely Shell film about ops at Croydon on the youtubes which suggests the “Handley Page Forty Two Seater” had some sort of APU for starting. It also shows how to service a Bristol Jupiter with mallets.
I would have loved to have flown those obsolescent beauties in my career. But of course there has to be a line in the sand… All yours Noyade, no doubt with something far more obscure. |
Thanks thnarg. Unfortunately I only have an exterior shot.
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....36ebc553d7.jpg |
european?
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Junkers?
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Originally Posted by thnarg
(Post 11491339)
Junkers?
:) https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....238d300bba.jpg |
Must be time to end this one and make it Open House.
The Junkers K 16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_K_16 https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....2fab742c56.jpg |
Not one I'd ever seen before ..................... looks very uncomfortable to fly
I see it has an "L" registration - was that a Czech aircraft (L-B***) in pre-1928 numbering??? here's an odd one for OH https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....da773f02eb.jpg |
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It is an odd one. No horizon so VFR only. The chaps’ clothes, briefcases and the plastic trim look early 1960s?
Does that decal say “Set Take-off Weight Opposite Operating Altitude”? Huh? American? |
Yes American - but earlier than 1960
The pictures are all a bit Film Noir - they were trying to push it as a business machine. It sold in (relatively) small numbers I can't make out the exact wording of the decal |
The airspeed indicator starts at 10 MPH/KTS, it must be a helicopter. Also dual rev indicators and a hydraulic press gauge. My guess is Cessna's only helicopter, the CH-1 Skyhook.
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Well done D26, just seen all about it on the youtubes. Basically a 150 with a wobbly wing and yet another aircraft you’d never get me up in.
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Oddly the ONLY helicopter that Cessna ever built - they made about a 100 I think , most of which went to the military -. It broke several height records in its time
Looks a bit more luxurious than any Cessna 150 or 172 I ever flew in. over to D26!! https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....ab2fe93ed5.jpg https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....23937e55e4.jpg https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....12c0f6f62d.jpg |
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