Midland Air Musem Beaufighter Cockpit…

Although not the best picture ever made, it gives an impression van the Beau cockpit at MAM.

Midland

The nose that was on show at East Fortune came I think from Duxford on loan.
The idea being that this is what ours will look like in the future, whose future though I dont know…..:rolleyes:

Dave R.
Do you have any serious gen’ on Typhoon cockpits, speciallt the instruments panel. I’m struggling to get enough info together to complete a life sized illustration. Maybe you could help me out.

If you go to my site www.davidbathe.com and click the “redirect your landing approach icon on the right hand side, you’ll go to my site where you can see what I’ve been doing with the Spit and Hurri panels.

Brilliant if you could guide me in the correct direction.

Best regards.
David Bathe.

Following on from Jagx204 the Beaufighter cockpit section was, at the time of receipt by the Midland A.M., ‘owned’ by Coventry Technical College (as it used to be known – it’s now City College or something like that?).
I think the transfer of loan to MAM was well ahead of the Think Tank development.
Displayed in the ‘Wings Over Coventry’ gallery it has relevance to Coventry and MAM in that The Standard Motor Co. built a considerable number of Beaufighter fuselages (along with complete Oxfords and Mosquitos) during WW2. Humber, also in Coventry, built large quantities of Hercules engines.
The cockpit was only one of a number items at Birmingham on loan from Cov. Tech. (now all presumably in store) and these include two (important to Coventry) engines that, in my opinion, should be on display at MAM.
It’s only a small piece of Beaufighter (a slice about 3ft. long) but it is well displayed and you stand roughly where the pilot sat. Looking through the windscreen are two different scale model Beaufighters (giving a sense of perspective) set against a darkening sky.

Roger Smith.

thanks for the replies…I had heard a number of years ago that Birmingham originally had 2 Hurricanes, Spitfire and a Beaufighter (all complete). The Hurricane and Spitfire are obviously the ones on display and the Hurricane and Beaufighter diasppeared….I was told that they could still be in one of the many huge stores dotted around the Birmingham area. If this cockpit is indeed the Birmingham one then it seems as though the rest of the Beaufighter may have been claimed by the scrap man after all!!! is the cockpit on loan from Birmingham or was it gifted to the Midland Air Museum?

No mystery about this cockpit, its been on display in the upstairs gallery since circa 1990.
Came from the old Birmingham Museum of Science and History where it was displayed in their aviation gallery along with the Spitfire and Hurricane now in the ‘Think Tank’ museum.
There’s enough circumstantial evidence to suggest its a mkIV serial T5298 although nothing has been found on the exhibit to prove this.
I’m not aware of any connection to the RAFM as it has been with the Birmingham museum since the 50’s.

Regards

Beau cockpit

I think there was a Beaufighter cockpit with the Spitfire and Hurricane in the old Birmingham Science and Industry Museum. Now that’s been redeveloped could this be the mystery cockpit? There was one at Duxford with TFC for a while which I think was the one from Hendon.

I seem to recall the Museum of Flight at East Fortune had a Beau nose section – could it be the same one?

If I recall correctly, it’s a Mk.II Beaufighter cockpit, and is owned by the RAFM?