The painnnn…

An old bloke around here had a job in the scrapping of about 500 planes out here after the war.About 170 odd were Spits..Anyway his job was to sit in the cockpit with a tiny hammer and smash the instruments.First lot he did he smashed the glasses but was warned to do a better job so the rest the hammer went right through…Ouch…:eek:
The rarity of the trim guage is due to that it being only used in a Spit. 30034/sheet 9 IIRC.Whereas the rest are generic issue.
It is a shame that ridgy didge parts are becoming so expensive.It is a huge stress and I wonder what the future holds.Do Spits go the way of rarer types and just become museum pieces or do we go the Mustang route where a whole new aircraft can be scourced from new build parts.Then flooding the market with repro parts.It,s a knifes edge decision.:(