Aircraft Cockpit Sections/Instrument Panel Projects

Blimey Dave is there a cockpit you HAVENT owned?

Saw your old bird at Stuarts when we collected the Vamp – he’s doing great work but his Spit is well, amazing….

Did see the resto diary for the seahawk but the last pic was a while ago, hence the request..

TT

Texantomcat,

You are right,
It is and there is a retraction “wheel” on the right hand side for you to rotate 13 times to get the gear up. The last few turns are hard so you tend to “bunt” in order to get them to engage the up locks.

It is a British Klemm Eagle intermediate betwixt MK1 and Mk2.
Another complicated story!

That, my friend, is gorgeous – reminds me of the ultimate plane porn pin up the Miles Whitney Straight…..I need a lie down!

TT

Great project Roy – I’m sure I saw DT off on his travels from brunters one day with a seahawk on his wagon, now i know where it went !

have you a recent pic of her progress?

TT

Back to the original point of this thread, here is one of my current projects.

http://www.wv838.com

I’m always looking for parts *hint*

Roy.

Hi Tim

Nice to see you on the forum. Tim very kindly helped us transport a consignment of Whitley parts a few months ago.

My post was only to mention the possibiltuy of the cockpit being saved if plan A fails (which hopefully it won’t!).

If it doesn’t work out, will someone please let me know?!

Thanks
Elliott

Hi Elliott!

Is there now two people interested in purchasing the nose outright? We’ve gone from the shack being on deaths door to there being a queue to save it 😀 Things have moved along very quickly.

is there anything specific you’d like a picture of?
you cant get very close to the canopies (they are on top of the buildings there)

Could you not go back with a camera please ?

(A pictures a thousand words and all that…….)

i’d not been there for about 6 months until today, and on the land next to it (as if you were driving past) they are building houses, so some of the stuff has been moved around, and it looks like some of it has gone.

It’s been eight or so years since I went – could there be a Gnat slipper tank or a canopy there ? The yard did have a planning application up for turning into a gym a while back – guess it didn’t happen!

sorry!…yup its gillings in diss if anyones interested.
and the wing is off a hawk (i spent long enough working on them!).

Got to be ! I did think the outboard wing part was from a Gnat though!

Sounds like Gillings in Diss. The Chippy fuselage was almost tied to the lamp-post!

Had a complete roll of dayglo from there for twenty quid! Chippy looks a treat with it!

Bruce

Quite a selection. Bloodnok, could you post the yards name. Some of the tools and test equipment could interest me.

sorry, no pics, was just there this afternoon, having a mooch around.

if you know someone that needs the canberra perspex, and £60 looks like the right sort of money, i can always pick it up for them.

Very interesting.

I’m sure the Canberra nose perspex will be sought after.

Do you have any photo’s of the items ?

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this may be of intrest to people who like cockpits, or even the rest of the plane!
there’s a scrap yard near me in the middle of suffolk that deal mainly in MOD surplus stuff, i’ve been going there off and on for years, as they sometimes have aircraft tools (help me in my job), anyway, they have a few bits of pretty old aircraft dotted around, so far i’ve seen

jet provost t3 bonnet (you know, the front bit that opens!), its a bit tatty, but would be better than nothig if you haven’t got one

aft part of the canopy for the same, frame looks ok, but perspex is a bit milky

hunter aft fuse (last 7ft or so) been used for battle damage repair

lightning single seater canopy, frame looks ok, perspex a bit milky

red top (?) missile i think!….looks like one off a lightning

a couple of other canopies, i thought they were hunter, but after looking at pics, they may be F.4 phantom.

canberra nose perspex (B1, B2?) in good condition with flat bomb aimers window
this is the only one with a price on, listed at £60

also there are a few instruments, and cockpit blackboxes, most of the black boxes are marked up ICS, and are for intercom. they have 2 dzus fastners each end.
there are also a couple of auto pilot ones as well.
a couple of fuel contents gauges, and a fuel flow gauge. these are about 2″ in diameter, and about 8 or 9 inches in depth.

there are a lot of lap strap buckles,
arm/leg restraint connecters off things like tornados and hawks

there were some of the small gauges off the side of a tornado

ecm pod off a tornado

a couple of older drop tanks, and the nose off a large pointy drop tank (looks like a sea vixen radome, but its made of alloy)

the outboard section of a crashed hawk wing (outer 5ft or so)

also in the various rooms and storage areas are quite a few old test sets for various aircraft systems (mostly avionic ones), although there is a fuel flow test set.

out front is what looks like a pretty complete weapons loader, with a small engine on the back to power it.

there used to be a very battered aft fuse from a chipmunk (from about the battery bay back) that still had remnants of the old dayglo marking on, but i couldn’t see it this tme.

there’s also a farly good stock of various aircraft tooling, all ex RAF, things like Hitorque bits, spanners , sockets etc.

just about all the aircraft parts have been there at least 10 years, out in the open (apart from the canberra nose perspex, i’ve not seen that before), but look like they may still of some use. the small yard is full of ex MOD stuff, from crockery, to bits of landrovers, flying clothing to table cloths! (they have a small shop in the town selling military clothing).

if this sounds of intrest, i’ll post the name of the yard up, and its location.

AH I give up!!

If whoever buys this nose section is looking for donations or somone to drive the lorry please e.mail me on [email]lankytim@hotmail.com[/email].

Seeyaaaa!!!!

Lankytim come and spend a weekend with the Cockpiteers at Newark in June at CockpitFest….you will find all you ever wanted to know (and probably alot more you didnt!) 🙂

People would say “Why didn’t you talk with the blokes of the International Cockpit Club.” Pretty much the advice given in post #49.

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AH I give up!!

If whoever buys this nose section is looking for donations or somone to drive the lorry please e.mail me on [email]lankytim@hotmail.com[/email].

Seeyaaaa!!!!

What would people say if I took on a project such as this, not having the skills or the funds needed to make a good job of it?

People would say “Why didn’t you talk with the blokes of the International Cockpit Club.” Pretty much the advice given in post #49.

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How come it wasnt bought 10 years ago then?

The scrapman would not sell it to the public at the time.
I think that he hoped it would go the same way as the shorts canberra cockpit,but this obviously this did not happen.

HMS Vulture