I am starting to build the Lindberg Laird Turner. I intended to completely modify the cockpit interior, but have run into a problem. A book I found on Laird airplanes says the side windows on the Meteor were like the Aircoupe- they met at top but slide down into pockets in fuselage side.
I have found a number of pictures of the cockpit on line. They all appear to be of the same plane, in a museum. I find NO evidence of such pockets. The structure of the fuselage is tubing with formers and stringers. There is a former between the sections that mark the fore and aft edges of such a window. The former goes from the tubing out to the stringers- no room for such a cockpit.
Could this aircraft be a replica that uses a canopy instead? If this is an original, or accurate replica, where are pockets for side windows?
