I want to build Testor’s 1/48 kit of this very important machine.
However, there is not as much as a hint of any cockpit interior in this kit.
Can anybody help with pictures?
Christmas greetings to everybody from Norway.
I Googled it a bit and didn’t find anyhting, though I’m sure somehtings out there somewhere.
If I had to guess (and I suppose I do… [;)]) I’d say the cockpit was probably very minimal. Maybe a simplistic IP, basic seat, throttle arrangment, etc. Mixture controls. Can’t imagine much navigation or a radio at all. Maybe if you found some shots of other period aircraft, it could be a good guide if you didn’t find anything definitive on the S6B.
I have a very complete large-format book, “Schneider Trophy Racers,” with hundreds of photos of every raceplane in the history of the event…and not a single cockpit shot of any of them. Lots of three-view diagrams showing the interiors as well, but you can’t tell a thing from them either. The only thing I can tell you, in case you don’t already know it, is that the windscreen/canopy was hinged at the front and folded up and forward, ending up upside-down on the cowling ahead of the cockpit. Didn’t slide in any way.
Stephan
The interior, including the windshield framing, is green, looking rather like the rather sickly Sky/Lime green on the early Spitfires. The “instrument panel” is a dark grey; the stick is white, or a very pale grey, with a brown (wooden?) button on the top. If you hinge the windshield forward, there is a large metal block (probably the rear of the engine) with a pipe, leading out of it, down behind the rear of the instrument panel.
Edgar