The cockpit id trivia thread

Yes, that was for your photo... Guess I didn't get the brass ring eh??

Mine could be floating over some soccer games...
It's a Zepplin NT.
more pics @:

http://www.skycruise.ch/info/technik-en.htm

 

I think Chris is right - a BAE Nimrod MRA4 Patrol aircraft

And something else I didn't know:
Nimrod (Genesis 10:8-9):
And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.

or it could be an album from Green Day if you are my daughter or a villian if you are a Dr. Who fan....


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from the archives...
Hint: designer's lineage includes Howard Hughes' record plane, and not hard to figure out if we've been introduced...
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Correct! A Nimrod it is!

 

With two machine gun charging handles in the instrument panel, the only thing I can think of is the Mitsubishi Zero Sen or the T-6/SNJ5 gunnery trainer......or my old L-3

 

While not a Zero, there are similarities in cockpit and a/c size; While not an T-6, it also belonged to a 'family of aircraft' like the NA-16 with multiple uses.

That must have been one mean L-3!!!!!

 

Is it a P-36?

 

Very close - similar cockpit layout and technology; different company, SAME engine....

 

I think he's probably correct - If not I'm thinking BC-51, B-54, B-54D or P-48 series of "Palmer" aircraft right now but haven't had a chance to research it.

What's the verdict?

Roy

 

Richard Palmer - yea!! He designed this series of aircraft for this company as well as the Hughes cross country record plane. Getting soooooooooo very close: and what was the AAC service designation of the internal company project code P-48?

It was not a 'mainstream' fighter. Ordered by a foreign country, embargoed, used by the AAC instead, then given to another foreign country

 

It sounds like the Vultee (Palmer) manufactured P-66 which had a Wright engine 1830 instead of the P & W 1820. Only 13 built.

The P-64 was the fighter version of the North American T-6 but I don't recall that it was designed by Richard Palmer.

I'll go with the P-66 - final answer!

 

Not a lot left to look at in this cockpit, but it had a name for being a real "pit bull" of a plane.
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Correctamundo!
Richard Palmer designed Vultee P-66 was the third in a series of planes encompassing commonality of design from Basic trainer through fighter. This series is most often known for the BT-13 and BT-15 trainers. To correct SkyKing's mis-type, the plane was powered by a P&W 1830. Initial orders were for Sweeden, but the 144 planes were embargoed as the Huns threatened, and were pressed into coastal patrol duties in California. They were then given to the Chinese through Claire Chennault, and some shared with the USAAC in the CBI.
http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/p66.html
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Hawk 75

 

I should have known! That being one of your "backburner" projects.

 

Ok, let's see
Very early radar repeater, navy style, puts it post war, single engine (I guess), looks big and I do not recognize any cockpit features (and it's a King cockpit ) so it must be weird. And the "pit bull " and "mauler" I think fits

Martin AM-1 Mauler seems to get my vote

Damn, you give the weirdest hints!

 

Bingo - what a mind - works as strangely as mine!

here goes two more

first is obscure foreign, second is similarly tough, especially to get out of in a tight.
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Yeah, that was a killer airplane, alright. That is why we named it "SUPER SLUG". I shoulda knowed that P-66 from the T-6 windshield frame in the drawing. You gotta build that, Russ!
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They're both French - sorry - I didn't mean to offend anyone. I won't do it again.

 

Although considered showy, its not American
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But still flying around French (-Canadian) pilots!

CT-114 Tutor, most often seen with the CAF Snowbirds
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Another classic which you can probably identify by looking outside the cockpit, although it's more often remembered in a different color scheme...
I just had to show the control stick top - what a work of art!
Hint - the two guns are removed from in front of the cockpit

For extreme extra credit, what 60's Christmas song would have reminded me of this plane?
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Can't imagine the Christmas song unless it's something by the Royal Guardsmen - boy does that date me!

 

Excellent!

Now - how about one of the two earlier French aircraft?

 

Yes - the
Fokker Dr1 Triplane

And for extra credit - the Royal Guardsmen singing about Snoopy and the Red Baron in the song Christmas Bells!


As for the French aircraft, I have no idea where to even start!
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