Cockpit identification

Interesting history on Wikipedia. It seems that some are still flying.

Google searching is fine, but you need to know which aircraft type you are looking for to find the correct pictures, even then you can end up with all sorts of mis-captioned (and thus misleading) pictures.

You must use it differently to me then as I simply dragged the image into the search box and it took me straight to a copy of the same image, correctly titled, here:-

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crash-aerien.aero%2Fforum%2Finsolites-photos-n-10-t13196-15.html&ei=675yULDlEqXb0QW414CoCA&usg=AFQjCNEotrheFBm-rwvBRcMqQydJVs_OCQ

Google searching is fine, but you need to know which aircraft type you are looking for to find the correct pictures, even then you can end up with all sorts of mis-captioned (and thus misleading) pictures.
It also makes for a more interesting forum when questions are put across here, and some useful incidental chat can arise from it.

That picture is the cockpit of Curtis C-46 “Maid in Japan” N54514, owned by Everts Air Cargo. I recognized the radio stack. It’s also a fairly modern upgrade and not at all like the Commando was in the field.

For reference here is the KC-97 and as was mentioned, is much roomier, rounder, and more glass. The C-46 is very pointed compared to most of the larger flight decks.

Google image search is a useful tool for this kind of thing:-

http://images.google.co.uk/

Definitely C-46 Commando, Stratocruiser/C-97 is substantially wider on the flight deck and with a few more panes of glass.

Looks like a C-46, the eyebrow windows match. Don’t know how I missed that one 🙂

It looks a bit like a Curtiss C46 to me, but I could be wrong.

I thought KC-97 at first, but looking at google, I would appear to be a C-46.

more likely to be a Boeing C-97 I suspect?

regards

Mark Pilkington

C-46?