What Cockpit?
 

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...ps1e965f98.jpgidentify the cockpit:

Boeing Aircraft Co. of Canada, "Totem" flying boat CF-ARF cockpit.

There's this clever tool known as Google image search.....:oh:

You are correct. If you use Google Image Search, there is no challenge. Are you admitting you were too lazy to objectively analyze the photo, or are you just giving me advice for future posts? Or both? Regardless, I challenge you to post a cockpit challenge.

Oh dear. And now he's taken his ball home.

try google images on this one :E

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/...ps912dc270.jpg

A Wittman W-8 Tailwind?

Ian BB

I have googled & youtubed! Not exactly like the home build Wittman 8's I saw.
However I would expect doubleyew eight to know his own W-8 perhaps?
Time for evansb to bring his ball back ?

yes ian bb has it.

dare I admit that I was actually taking the piss :E
but I can post some you wouldn't guess.

W8,

Where did you get that turn and slip? I've never seen one like it.

the turn and slip is an old gyro instrument.
the slip is a simple pivoted paddle bat with a weight below it.(internally in the instrument)
The turn is a gyro instrument which as it happens isn't plumbed into the vacuum.
it used to have an inop sticker over it.

the instrument is probably ww2 vintage or just after.

I should have been more specific. Your T&S is not like the ones seen in British WWII aircraft. Do you know where it was made?

re the turn and bank instrument.
 

when a google search failed to give me a picture of a similar instrument I went for a look.
a 100km round trip later and I'm still puzzled.
I actually took the instrument out of the panel for a good look see when I discovered that there is no makers name on the face.

on one side of the case is stamped in
Patent No's 604208 591182

on the other side of the case is stamped
Serial No. c/908/49 Type TN300
Ref No. 6A/2676

there is no hint of a manufactures name anywhere on the case.
if anyone can give me an identification of year and manufacturer please speak up.
more of a mystery than I thought.

The 6A/2676 is an RAF stores ref; the format of the display is the same as in the last Tiger Moth I flew in. The part is in the LAS catalogue, albeit nil stock, call for availability. I strongly suspect /49 is the year of manufacture.

"The turn and slip was a 6A/3371 mk 1B made by Reid & Siegrist as TN300.This is calibrated to 4 minutes at full scale deflection on each side of centre."

This from another post referring to DHC-1 Chipmunk instrumentation.

C2j

New cockpits are few and far between these days. Here's a rare one:

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...ps2n1naibr.jpg

Rebuild?
 

Could this be a Barracuda?

Yes, it's being rebuilt after a crash. Not from Fairey.

Here's a closer view of the panel:
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...pslwc7no2a.png

Not from Hawker either.

oldpax was getting slightly warm with his Barracuda guess. This aircraft is about the same size and has folding wings.

I reckon it's a Vultee A-31 Vengeance..


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._0G0537%29.jpg

ETOPS,

I can see why you thought it was a Vengeance, but not from Vultee. It is however American.

JENKINS,
Not an Avenger but you are headed in the right direction. Simple wing-fold à la Corsair.

Hero of Midway
 

Is it a Douglas SBD Dauntless?

Douglas Devastator...?

This is fun ;)

I don't think Sycamore could possibly have been anywhere near this aircraft.

Just to add to the confusion, neither the Dauntless, Devastator or Helldiver have one of the key identifying features of this aircraft: tricycle gear :E

Think you`ve got it there,Jenks....be interested to see how they did the cat-strop arrangement on an early n/w aircraft....

JENKINS,

Good sleuthing but up the wrong alley. Fascinating is right, because I'd never heard of the Douglas BTD Destroyer either!

My aircraft was designed by Grumman.

Well I thought Jenkins had that. I'm struggling; as far as I can find the first single engine tricycle equipped carrier borne Grumman was the Panther, yet this cockpit is nothing like the Panther, especially the rake of the windscreen which is more reminiscent of the Wildcat/Hellcat series but obviously those were tail wheel ac.
Can't wait to find out what this is!

I've got one more clue up my sleeve, but I'll re-state the last one, which was carefully worded.

"My aircraft was designed by Grumman."

Grumman
 

Was it a Northrop product?

oldpax,

Not Northrop.

Fireball?
 

So glad to see this venerable thread active once again :D

Tried to follow the various clues and rebuttals...

Could it be the RYAN FR Fireball?

'866

Columbia XJL?

I will give it a go!!
 

T-34 Mentor?

866,
Fireball - another obscure aircraft I had never heard of, but not right.

Noyade is correct - the Columbia XJL-1, which I had also never heard of until a couple of months ago.

Designed by Grumman as a Duck replacement and built by Columbia, who were already building Ducks. Only three were built. Ordered in 1942, but the first flight was not until 1946 and the project was cancelled in 1948.

My next clue was going to be "Murphy's War Part Deux". The XJL is sometimes referred to as the Monoplane Duck.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...psej5rnt0g.jpg

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...psdg2tkvct.jpg

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...pswgfrj5vp.jpg

This one is being slowly rebuilt after a crash landing at Camp Pendleton following an engine failure. Due to very poor glide ratio, the aircraft undershot. The right gear was torn off, the forward part of the hull broke off and the aircraft ended up inverted. Luckily there were no fatalities. Grumman Ironworks lives up to its reputation again!

An interesting feature is a circular water-tight hatch in the hull, aft of the step, which leads into a small passenger compartment, below the rear cockpit. Designed to allow divers/special forces to easily enter the water.

A very good history here: http://www.goodall.com.au/grumman-am...olumbiaXJL.pdf

Noyade has control.

It was Frank Tallman flying the Duck, although I've seen a quote from Peter O'Toole saying that he was at the controls in some shots. Murphy's Duck is now at the USAF Museum in Dayton.

I saw one some years ago at Tucson airport. A strange looking beast!

The one in Tuscon is the only other one left. The third airframe was used for structural tests and was scrapped.

Only solved due to your clues mate. Thanks Simon.

Like this one. I found it illustrated, believe it or not, in a children's book, "Aircraft in Colour", in a Melbourne Salvation Army opportunity shop. It doesn't show the flight controls, but I don't think there are many to speak of anyway. It's a replica that flew in 1968...

http://i62.tinypic.com/vwzcx4.jpg

The full illustration then. From the USA.

http://i61.tinypic.com/10iatl1.jpg

The picture looks very familiar, but I can't remember where I saw it.

Is it a relative of this early Morane Saulnier?

http://thumbs2.picclick.com/d/l400/p...RLY-K87295.jpg