Cockpit recognizing : which jet is it ?
 

I suggest some kind of contest :

I first post an interior pix, someone finds out which jet it is, then post a second interior pix and so on....

So what's that ?

RE: Cockpit recognizing : which jet is it ?
 

T-37???
Is it sitting in your yard? Bet that would get my neighbor's attention[8D]
Tommy

RE: Cockpit recognizing : which jet is it ?
 

I think there are too many wind screen "ribs" there (or whatever they are called) to be a T-37

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F-111 I think

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None of them.

BTW, this aircraft is well known.

If no good answer tomorrow, then I'll give a clue...

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im not sure the name, but isnt is the prop trainer for the RAF??

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EA-6B Prowler...

Is it in your yard???

Craig

RE: Cockpit recognizing : which jet is it ?
 

Not sure it's an EA-6.. but it certainly looks like it's from the A-6 family.

RE: Cockpit recognizing : which jet is it ?
 

looks like the pit from an A-37 dragon fly

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Hmm,
Is it British? Perhaps something by DeHavilland..or maybe a E-6? Gonna need a clue ..:)

RE: Cockpit recognizing : which jet is it ?
 

My guess is the Saab SK 60 A, a jet trainer from Sweden. ...???.. Not?

Regards

Gudmund

RE: Cockpit recognizing : which jet is it ?
 

Or the A-6 Intruder?

Gudmund

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Vampire, Venom, Provst? Definitely Brit.
Will Whiteside

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It appears to be a HAL HJT-16 Kiran side-by-side jet trainer developed for the Indian Air Force. While the cockpit does appear similar to a Venom, the Venom's front windscreen is squared off at the top. Most of the other "side-by-side" jets like the Provst, and T/A-37 only have a single frame member right in the center of the windscreen

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It's the English Electric Lightning, two seat trainer version. The give-away clues are the hoods over the radar scopes, and the straight strip machmeter at the top of the panel.

Harry

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Cool, from what I gather the English are quite proud of that bird.
WW

RE: Cockpit recognizing : which jet is it ?
 

Might be the correct answer to this, as it has the flat front window like the one
Strykaas launched.
For sure not Venom, Vampire or Provost, as these are too old to match the equipment and instruments.
Can`t find any from a A-6, but I guess mine is out as the HAL HJT 16 is requested.
But is the HAL a common aircraft to the mongst? Not to me, anyway.
I guess Strykaas have to show up soon!
The pix shows the Venom, Vampire and the Provost.

Regards

Gudmund

RE: Cockpit recognizing : which jet is it ?
 

How about the Douglas F3D Skyknight?

Dennis

RE: Cockpit recognizing : which jet is it ?
 

Well, this is a photo of the single seater F-6 Frightning, as some pilots called it.
Anyone with a two-seater??
Damn, wich is it!!:D

Regards

Gudmund

RE: Cockpit recognizing : which jet is it ?
 

And this is the F3D Skyknight..
A small plasticmodel, but...Nope.

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It appears that Harry is exactly right. Here's another shot from the opposite side of the cockpit.

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ENGLISH ELECTRIC LIGHTNING T.5

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Yes, Harry is the eagleeye among us..
And the next task is:.......:)

Regards

Gudmund

RE: Cockpit recognizing : which jet is it ?
 

what is this :-)

RE: Cockpit recognizing : which jet is it ?
 

The cockpit in that photo is missing the hood over the radar screen, but does clearly show the strip machmeter which I believe was unique to the Lightning and is the biggest clue. Pilots had to put their head down into the hood to view the radar screen, which being of early 1950s vintage was very poor and took a lot of brain power to interpret, whilst still flying a mach 2 fighter! Needless to say, only the very very best got to fly the Lightning. For those who like raw power, the Lightning could outclimb the F15 going vertically up off the runway, and in the 1950s and 60s it could supercruise long before the F22 was invented. It had to, the spec for Lightning's supersonic performance was laid down before reheat was invented! The addition of reheat by the time the design was well advanced prior to production just upped its performance a whole new notch. Sadly the Lightning was hampered by very poor range which was dictated by our post WW2 Labour pro-Soviet government, hence later versions had ever bigger belly tanks giving the Lightning a pregnant look.

But if there were ever two aircraft in your life you had to see and hear in flight, it was the Lightning and the Vulcan. In the 1960s at air displays to see the sharp arrow shape of the Lightning come off the runway and disappear vertically atop its twin columns of fire was something else.


H