mystery seat(2005 Zombie)

Seat i/d

I’ve no idea as to what type of aircraft it’s from.

Anon

I’ve got a seat like that too, but it doesn’t have the arms on it. The padding is much the same though. I’ll get a pic at the weekend and post it (if this thread is still going).

Me too Hindenburg, I enjoyed the Shoreham jumbles immensely. A gang of us travelled a long way, leaving very early, to get there in time for early doors and the bargains. I gather from the organiser Tangmere 1940’s recent comments that there may something similar starting up again.

Anon.

I’d be interested to see your seat too, if you can put up a pic. Do you know what aircraft type your seat is from?

Hi Ian,

Will look this out and put some photos up for you. It won’t be for a few weeks though as the hangar is being refurbished and is out of bounds to all but the contractors at the moment.

regards

John

No problem, and thanks. I look forward to seeing photos in due course.

Yeah, it’s the aerial array for a Type 7 Final GCI. The extra bays indicate that this is the post-war version but sadly I don’t know which station this was taken at.

Like your Radar pic RadarArchive…part of a ROTOR system isn`t it?.I used to play in the base of one of those as a kid,at RAF Langtoft.

I`ll really look forward to another Shoreham,it used to give me a real buzz..my wife went once and thought the main marquee was like the Mos Eisley Cantina from Star Wars !! There were some true eccentrics there which made it all the more interesting,thank god for them..it was always a great day at Shoreham,one of the highlights of the year !!

Seat etc.

I’ve got a seat like that too, but it doesn’t have the arms on it. The padding is much the same though. I’ll get a pic at the weekend and post it (if this thread is still going).

Me too Hindenburg, I enjoyed the Shoreham jumbles immensely. A gang of us travelled a long way, leaving very early, to get there in time for early doors and the bargains. I gather from the organiser Tangmere 1940’s recent comments that there may something similar starting up again.

Anon.

Hi Ian,

Will look this out and put some photos up for you. It won’t be for a few weeks though as the hangar is being refurbished and is out of bounds to all but the contractors at the moment.

regards

John

Johns your man for photos of the project seat as its up at Wyton in the stores.

I would Imagine you are right there Peter about them also being fitted in Lancastrians.I would imagine it was a large contract put out to the seat makers, ie Rumbolds, for a lightweight,foldable seat that could be simply bolted to any aircraft floor.I found one for The Stirling Project about 8 years ago at Shoreham,a rare item indeed ,this is only the second one I`ve seen.I seem to remember that particular Shoreham aerojumble was a bonanza for Stirling parts,got 2 flight engineers panels,sets of rudder pedals,part of the floor with bombclamp still attached ( ex flowers scrap),Stirling flaps panel and bomb aimers extending sight lamp.It`s a shame that event went,really missed the characters and banter more than anything !!

Thanks, but I found the same image via Google. I’d like to see detailed photos of a known Stirling seat to compare, if this would be possible. This and other images I’ve found don’t show enough detail to be able to be certain one way or the other if what I have is indeed from a Stirling.

John,

Would it be possible to post (or PM me) some pictures of the seat, ideally from front and back as well as details of the seat framework? This would allow me to make a full comparison and, with luck, made a definitivve identification.

Martin beat me to it, we’ve got what looks to be an identical seat, but in green

John

It almost looks a tiny bit like the passenger seats in a lancastrian as well.

Hindenburg,

Thanks VERY much for this suggestion. I’ll need to have another look at the seat to study it in detail, but this certainly looks like a good possibility. The shape of the headrest side panels looks like a very close match.

I would never have thought of a Stirling as a possibility! If this does turn out to be correct, presumably that would make this seat reasonably uncommon? There can’t be all that many Stirling passneger seats out there, can there?

The framework is VERY similar to the passenger seats fitted to the Mk V Stirling,but the upholstery on these was just green canvas.

is the upholstery original? looks american to me.

It is indeed original, as far as I can tell.

never seen anything like it sorry!

is the upholstery original? looks american to me.

I take it no-one has any (sensible) ideas about this one? Any suggestions as to where I might information about it?