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Unknown Aircraft Instrument Panels
Hey guys...
Does anyone recognize these? Came out of a WW2 museum... TIA Mike Last edited by harrison987; 2nd April 2021 at 23:39. |
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Re: Unknown Aircraft Instrument Panels
hello mike,
on the last one is written in the upper right corner: 37 MM CANNON this must be the 37 mm Automatic Gun, M4 and therefore my suggestions: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_P-39_Airacobra or https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_P-63_Kingcobra regards ghost
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Re: Unknown Aircraft Instrument Panels
ah!
Appears you are correct on that one. Thoughts on the others? Mike |
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Re: Unknown Aircraft Instrument Panels
yes, seems so ...
but which one is right? could you post the dimensions of all? regards ghost
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Re: Unknown Aircraft Instrument Panels
There is a website that has a lot of manuals for various WWII era planes and most of the manuals have a few pages with cockpit panel photos.
www.avialogs.com You can look up manuals by country and manufacturer. There are manuals for the Bell P-39, P-63 and even the P-59 which also had 37mm cannon. I have looked at them and could not find a real "close" match to the 3rd panel we are trying to identify. The general shape seems right, but the instrument positions don't seem that close. In particular the 37mm cannon switches, loading and charging handles, etc. are in different locations. Perhaps some others can take a look and find something different. I wonder if these panels were intended for some type of display but are not from actual planes? Last edited by RSwank; 29th July 2019 at 19:59. |
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Re: Unknown Aircraft Instrument Panels
Hi!
The one in discussion (P-39/P-63) is for sure repro. I can tell based on the construction. So that could account for the instrument/switch positions The others are original. I will check that website and will see if anything else comes up... Mike |
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Re: Unknown Aircraft Instrument Panels
Just some clues on the other two panels.
Panel 1 appears to be for a (small?) twin engine plane with a bomb bay, maybe an A-20? Panel 2 appears to be for a plane with tricycle landing gear (Left, Right and Nose). ( If a single engine plane then we may be back to the P-39, P-63 but the panel shape seems wrong. |
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Re: Unknown Aircraft Instrument Panels
If from a museum there should be a paper trail. The first panel with the stamped radio call sign is highly suspicious.
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Re: Unknown Aircraft Instrument Panels
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Not an A-20 for panel 1. http://zenoswarbirdvideos.com/Images...tInstPanel.pdf Possibly a military, in-country use only aircraft. Used by multiple operators for unclassified purposes. |
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Re: Unknown Aircraft Instrument Panels
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I've worked with this one so far: https://www.deutscheluftwaffe.de/geraetebretter but this is only for german panels!? regards ghost
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