AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF ORLD WAR II AIRCRAFT INTERIORS BY DONALD NIJBOER WITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAN PATTERSON INTRODUCTION By AIR VICE-MARSHAL RON DICck, RAF (RET.)COCKPIT AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II AIRCRAFT INTERIORS SwCopyright Donald Nijboer, 1998 Photographs © Copyright Dan Patterson, 1998 First published in the UK in1998 by Airlife Publishing Ltd 101 Longden Road, Shrewsbury, SY3 9EB, England First published in North America by Boston Mills Press an affiliate of Stoddart Publishing Co. Limited Toronto, Canada British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catal is available from the British Library sue record for this book ISBN 1 84037 067 X } Book Design & Layout by The Unlimited Dream Company Kevan (Magic) Buss, Creative Director al ‘No part this book may be reproduced If you would like to order copies of any of the cockpit photographs found in this book, contact Dan Patterson. 66825 Peters Pike, Dayton, Ohio 45414 PREVIOUS PAGE: A PLOY OF 447 SQUADRON ROYAL CANADIAN AIRFORCE ‘CUMBING 1870 THE COCKPIT OF His SPITFIRE AT COUBRINE : OCKPIT AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II AIRCRAFT INTERIORS 7 NORTH AMERICAN B-25 MITCHELL 94 FoREWwoRD 8 MARTIN B-26 MARAUDER 98 PHOTOGRAPHER'S PREFACE 10_—_-BOFING B-29 SUPERFORTRESS 102 Irropuction 11 GRUMMAN F4F Witpcar 106 GRUMMAN FOF HELLCAT 10 ee CHANCE Voucut F4U Corsair 114 eee ce 16 Douctas SBD Dauntirss 118 FatRey SWORDFISH 20 HAWKER HURRICANE JAPAN SUPERMARINE SPITFIRE BRISTOL BLENHEIM Mrrsupisit AGM ZERO-SEN 124 Mrrsusisit Kr-g6-Ill “Divan” 128 BRISTOL BEAUFIGHTER KaWaNIsHt SHIDEN-Kat 132 DEHAVILLAND MosQUuiTO = 40. Kawasaki KI-100 136 HawKER TyPHOON 44 AVRO LANCASTER 48 USSR. an YAKOVLEV Yak3 142 SEVERSKY P-35 54 GERMANY LocKHEED P-38 LIGHTNING 58 MrsseRscHMITT BF 109 148 BELL P-39 AIRACOBRA 62 Focke WutF Fw 190 152 Curtiss P-40 WaRHAWK 66 Junkers Ju 87 156 RepusLic P-47 THUNDERBOLT 70 — MesseRscHMITT ME 410 160 NowrH AMERICAN P-51 MUSTANG 74 MESSERSCHMITT ME 163, 164 BELL P-59 AIRACOMET 78 MrssERScHMITT ME 262 168 Douctas A-20 Havoc 2 BOEING B-17 FLYING FORTRESS 86 BIBLIOGRAPHY 174 ConsoLIDATED B24 LIBERATOR 90 INDEX 175