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Alright, alright. We *have* been neglecting the airplane grognards.

By The Armorer on January 26, 2007 | | Comments (14)

You guys can play with this one.

The gunsight might be a clue. Mebbe. I dunno. This could be a red herring for all you know. Or not. Where's Sanger? Sanger - this is an airplane cockpit. Just so you could get started on the right foot. Or the left. Whichever.

In what aircraft is this the pilot's office?

You guys usually get this in about 15 minutes. Let's see how many still hang out around here.

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By Sam L. on January 26, 2007 9:19 AM
I say Hellcat.
 
By wolfwalker on January 26, 2007 9:40 AM
I dunno, Sam. That doesn't look like the cockpit of a plane made for flying over water to me. No sign of a plotting board or other nav aids, which I know the Hellcat had. I'm better on the outside of airplanes than the insides, save for the handful I've actually looked inside. About all I can tell about this is that it's a single-seat cockpit, which means fighter, observation, or small bomber. I'm not even sure that thing above the instrument panel is really a gunsight.
 
By Justthisguy on January 26, 2007 9:50 AM
It's british. That's a brake lever on the stick.
 
By Gwedd on January 26, 2007 12:56 PM
Comrades, Is cockpit from wonderful fighter plane of Glorious Soviet Air Army, made by Yakolev. Is known in decadent western capitalist pig-dog nations as "Yak-3", because they are incapable of pronouncing true name, which is still a state secret. For more, see here: http://www.ohnoyoudon'tgiveawaymysecrets.org/page_01.htm (last page). Even as we speak agents of NKVD are delivering message to come to Moskva and explain how image got posted onto net for all to see. Boris and Natasha are less than pleased with moose and sqvirrel. Nostrovnya,
 
By SangerM on January 26, 2007 1:26 PM
I think John's been taking link-fiddlin lessons from Bill... Dastardly behavior!! Just dastardly.
 
By SangerM on January 26, 2007 1:31 PM
But I now know where there's a color version of that picture... It's at www.@*$%2356q28u2124t mb 'DSF Hey....! Cut that out. It's at www ........................... [We're sorry but your connection has been terminated due to inactivity. Please hang up and don't try again.] :-D
 
By Gwedd on January 26, 2007 1:37 PM
Comrades, Perhaps NKVD & GRU "reprenstatives" are more effecient then at first understood, da? Maybe try here: http://www.surclaro.com/store/CaptainSim/yak3/3_vc.html Or maybe not..... depends on whims of State Information Commissar.... [Is acceptable. Termination order rescinded. For now.] Must have more speaks with moose and sqvirrell about this affairs. Dostveydonya,
 
By AFSister on January 26, 2007 2:45 PM
Looks a lot like a helicopter cockpit, like an Apache or something. It's a tight fit, and the seat is low.
 
By John of Argghhh! on January 26, 2007 4:05 PM
AFSis - nowhere near enough blinkenlights in there to be an Apache... but now I'm curious enough to go take a look at some early helo instruments.
 
By Dan Patterson on January 26, 2007 9:08 PM
I'm thinking pre-war, maybe Seversky, maybe a "Multi-Vibrator". The stick-mounted (brake?) should be a good clue, but I'm just guessing. Dan Patterson Arrogant Infidel
 
By AG PILOT on January 27, 2007 2:42 AM
Not enough enlargement to see the writing on the guages. I do notice there is no artificial horizon or DG. The rudder petal "center pivot" arrangement looks to be what I've heard described in the Japanese Zero. I don't see a "coffee grinder" radio and the Japanese fighters were known to not have radios. I do not see the "fire through the prop" machinegun receivers that protrude into the cockpit of a Zero. The cockpit is too large for a Spitfire. With the hand brake possibly a Hurricaine.
 
By HomefrontSix on January 27, 2007 2:57 AM
Yep - it's a Yakovlev Yak-3. I'm pretty sure the emphasis is on the "kov" portion of the name - ya-KOV-lev. But hey, what do I know? ;~) http://dangitmorestatesekritsbeinggivenaway!/cockpit/Yakovlev%20Yak-3.jpg [State Sekurity is goink to haff to put comments wit URLs into moderations!!]
 
By afsister on January 27, 2007 6:19 PM
I know it's not an Apache... but that's the first attack helicopter name that popped into my mind. It just looks low for some reason. Reminds me of the helicopter cockpit I sat in on The USS Intrepid.
 
By BillT on January 27, 2007 8:56 PM
AFSis - You sat in a Cobra cockpit (front seat). There are more gauges and stuff in the lower left corner of a Cobra's panel than there are in a Yak-3's (or MiG anything-before-17's) whole cockpit -- that thing is a daytime-only, stay-away-from-clouds-only, seat-of-the-pants-only, fighter.