Looking for Monocoupe cockpit/interior pics.

[pburress]

I am building a model of a Monocoupe D-145 and am interested in including some seats and other basic cockpit details. Does anyone know where I can find any pictures of these? It doesn't have to be the D-145 model; I just need a general idea. Thanks in advance!

[srower]

There are a few photos here.

http://www.russellw.com/photoalbum/phot ... eMonocoupe

Scott

[pburress]

Thanks Scott. I am still on the hunt for a good picture of the seats.

[Carol]

These are interior shots of 2 different 90AL's

[pburress]

Thanks! So... what is behind the seats? Do the back of the seats hit the bulkhead?

[pburress]

Here's a pic of what I have made up so far. I also made 2 individual seats but I think the full-sized used a bench. Does this look (very) roughly in the ball park? should it be bigger, sill higher/lower? Or moved forward or aft? And finally, what is between the rear of the seat and the bulkhead? Thanks again for your time.

[Clipwing]

pburress,
I am a bit at adisadvantage at the moment as I recently moved to North Carolina and much of my resource materials are in storage-just saw your request for info on the interior for you Megocoupe in the RCGroups site and then dropped over to the Monocoupe site. I am a primary resource for modeling info of the Monocoupe aircraft as I have developed several Coupe plans over the last 20 years /BUT they are typically in the 1/4 sclae 1/3rd scale sizes---no matter letts see if I can give you a direct answer:
there is an issue that you may have noticed on your Megocoupe project --the cabin windows are seperated into 3 sections/2 forward(apx the same size) abd the rounded out D-window at the rear of the cabin....the reason I mention this is part of the key to understanding the seating layout of the Monocoupe models. Carol posted 2 good pictures check them out carefully...in your research(you did do some yes??) you will find that the model D145 was the last model of the Monocoupe line of aircraft constructed. { 90/110/90A & finally D-145} The D-145 had cabin doors similar to the model 90A-fairly straight on the rear edge(trailing edge) -the front edge (leading edge) of the cabin door had a forward angle from the topfront corner angled down to about the mid center of the cabin side and then curving down and rearward and finally slightly up ward to conjoin the TE.
Now (if I made that at all clear)--starting at the rear of the cabin ...and go forward, there is what amounts to a "shelf" that passes under the D window (going forward) until you get to the first upright divider ( 1/2 of that divider would be the actual rear TE of the cabin door. Stop the "rear shelf" just before you get to that upright--you are at the staring point of the back of the bench seat.
The bench seat has a slight angle to it as it goes forward (Top of seat back down to where the seat back joins the seat cushion)...then the seat cushion of course goes forward. The forward edge of the seat cushion goes approximately 1/3rd of the way forward in the cabin //if you were to measureacross the inner dor surface from TE to Forward /LE of the door.
Look carefully at the pix that Carol provided and see if my description make any sense.
I have some pic tures of the interior of a D145 that was recently refurbished and I will check those to see if I can make all the above clearer. If you see this please contact me at lockrow@earthlink.net and I will try to further help you on your project/if you feel I can/realize your posts were some time back .
Looking at your last posted picture you have the seat location approximately correct. It may seem that there is a lot of space from the seat forward to the panel---on the model there is ! part of the problem as the model is designed the panel is placed farther forward than in the actual aircraft/ also in thre mode it slants forward at the top-in the real aircraft the panel is pretty much 90 degrees to the floor board/ and those side window dividers that I talked about early on.
Best I can do with-out drawing a diagram-if you contact me I will try to do just that !
Hope this may help some !