Mystery canopy ID

A quick question for Texan Tomcat does the picture you took 10 years ago match this one ?

Dimensions are

Large end – 34 1/2 inches OD, 33 inches i.d. Circumf of 54.5 inches Height of 17 1/2 inches
small end – 11 1/8 OD and 10 1/2 id circumf of 15 inches height of 4 1/2 inches

Total length of 68 3/4 inches
Outside edge length of 70 1/4 inches

Max height is 18 3/4 inches

Thank you.

Crumbs I don’t know after 10 years! Looks similar -ours was deffo Scimitar -went to Tony Collins in Lavendon for his cockpit -he was, as I recall, rather chuffed! TT

A quick question for Texan Tomcat does the picture you took 10 years ago match this one ?

Dimensions are

Large end – 34 1/2 inches OD, 33 inches i.d. Circumf of 54.5 inches Height of 17 1/2 inches
small end – 11 1/8 OD and 10 1/2 id circumf of 15 inches height of 4 1/2 inches

Total length of 68 3/4 inches
Outside edge length of 70 1/4 inches

Max height is 18 3/4 inches

Thank you.

Dear All – just to let you know that the canopy was offered up against a Scimi frame at the weekend and has been confirmed as Scimitar – it has been passed on to help a cockpit section

Bravo! Always nice when a part finds a new home on an airframe.

Dear All – just to let you know that the canopy was offered up against a Scimi frame at the weekend and has been confirmed as Scimitar – it has been passed on to help a cockpit section

Many thanks to all who contributed – if it hadnt been for the forum we wouldnt have known what it was and it wouldnt have found a home (and there would be a Scimi without a ‘lid’!)

All the best

TT

The Provost did have the famous Percival hingeing panel to allow access behind the instruments . The inevitable happened on one occasion in the 50’s when one swung open on climb out,locking behind the control column and causing a consequent stall and pilot fatality.

Nope, neither of those……… 😉

Provost (apparently) has two panels that swing out for access. And the mystery one is slightly deeper and not as wide compared to a JayPee 3, and yet has holes for wing tanks selection :confused:

Percival Prentice. 😉

Piston Provost

Piston Provost…. any takers?

Thats cos they think you smell Dave :diablo:

TT

Actually TT i’m only jealous at the amount of help. Perhaps the combined might of the forum can’t identify this mystery RAF panel then ?

ROTFL!

😀

I can’t quite make out the credit card numbers….

I can and i’m gonna try for the Flea on eBay :diablo:

🙂

As for size – herewith another pic with a credit card beside it (all I had on me for scale!)

I can’t quite make out the credit card numbers….

Looks Like Scimi it is then – many thanks chaps as ever

TTFN

TT

Very roughly , from a small GA, it comes out a bit over six foot in length for a Scimitar canopy.

Was it one of the pile of canopies (at least a dozen) of very similar looking ones which was at the Flowers scrap yard in Chippenham?

I remember one had the word “Scimitar” written on it in faint chinagraph.

You beat me to it! A friend of mine was spitting feathers (quite rightly) when he sent a friend of his along in his absence to the auction of items from Flowers’ scrapyard in Chippenham having been tipped off about Scimitar canopies. When I was editing (sorry, completely re-writing!!) The Scimitar File for Air-Britain I put this anecdote in. By all accounts there were a handful of them all still in their waxed paper and they were all bought by some numpty of a “designer” who wanted to turn them into chairs!! 😮
This guy wouldn’t even part with one of them for cash.

So maybe one of them has come to light after all?

I think its from a Scimitar.

I think its from a Scimitar, subject to confirmation of dimensions.

Supermarine Swift? Although, from memory, there is a kind of “stepped” side, although that may just be in the framing. Andy Saunders (edit: doh!! Only just seen the previous couple of posts!)

early swift? it is certainly supermarine with the white ‘tape’