Not Italian.
One built.
It flew.

… because they were shipbuilders (Beardmore, Vickers, Blohm+Voss etc) or because they just loved doing metalwork (Junkers)?

I imagine because that many rivets were needed.
They did like all-metal aircraft but weren't well-known outside their own country. Their output, which included some very good looking aircraft were mostly one-offs.

Not Italian - so French??

Shot in the dark as inhale not found a cockpit photo:
Latecoere 4
It was a 3 engine plane and an early metal fuselage.

Renard R.35?

Noyade has it. Belgian pressurised airliner of 1935 - idiot test pilot took it out for first taxi trials, did one run and then took off strictly contrary to his instructions. He only got half way round the citcuit and that was the end of that. No cause was found but it was considered the aircraft was too complex for one pilot to manage.

Cheers Mel.


https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....56d17744cc.jpg

N american?

Yes...

Helio Stallion?

Not from Helio.

Cessna O-2A Skymaster, Cessna 337 (cvilian version)

That's him.
Seen in the movie Bat*21 with Danny Glover (seen below) and Gene Hackman.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094712/

Over to you D26.


https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....187a866a40.jpg

My clues were split windscreen, the little window at left, retractable landing gear, the pilot wearing a military type flight suit.

Open house please.

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....58755e6804.png

Cunningly out of focus so we can't enhance the image to read the labels........... :(

However it looks like the word "Throttle" on the LHS of the cockpit??

looks very simple - a motorised glider or similar perhaps?

Pretty good assessment.
I'm sure that label does say throttle.
The focus is as it came, not my doing!

looks seriously basic - no wireless or any naviads visible - European??

Have you tried blowing it up?

Of course - the whole shooting match :ugh:

unless that's a cunning clew? :bored:

maybe I should have said have you tried inflating it…

It has been a Good year with nice challenges.
merry Christmas and happy New Year

Possibly the single-seat GA-468?


https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....bb1788e4c2.jpg

Oh my GOD!!

No "possibly" about it - Noyade has it - the Goodyear "Inflat-o-plane" which actually worked quite well.

Now see what I meant by blowing it up or inflating it !!

Wasn't sure you were serious - that's worse than the Submarine-plane we had earlier this year!!

Perhaps not as bad as the `Durex Delta`,so named as made by the well-known `London Rubber Company` ,suppliers of `equipment` for responsible pilot`s `appendages,as safety equipment...! Tested at B-D for an Army requirement...

Cheers Mel.
Only the tyres were inflated on this one...


https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....ecfb1b252f.jpg

From the door/roof arrangement it could be a Globe Swift. But that comes in many cockpit layouts.

That's him Bear. A 1946 version.
Over to you.

Thanks Noyade,
How does it work?
Do the side windows slide down like a car?

Now this:
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....79a82a76a.jpeg

Farman Jabiru?

What a nice flight deck - I think even I could fly it!. A classy French trimotor, so something like a Dewoitine? Does it have drop tanks (“largage reservoir”) or have I mistranslated?

A bit later than the Jaribu.
Indeed French.
I think those 3 handles are to jettison the fuel, not the tanks!
But I think quite peculiar that it could jettison fuel? (this is not a clue, just a question).

Pre 1939?

Yes
As far as I can see there are no French tri-motors post 1939.
(and less than 5 outside France)

Yep.


https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....3126bab81f.jpg

A bit of a stab in the dark, but the Lorraine-Hanriot LH70 had three “réservoirs d’essence largables”?