In between the heatstroke, trench foot and Merrydown there were aeroplanes at Glastonbury again. Hidden up in Trash City was an Andover fuselage, wings/tails off ‘something big’ and some impressive kit cars made from cowlings and fairings. It was a tight squeeze getting in through the cabin window but gave an interesting vantage point on the proceedings. The cockpit was pretty much stripped, decorated with string and sprayed gold. A little panel came off in my hand and as nobody seemed to mind I’ve saved it for posterity.
By: Jon H - 16th July 2008 at 12:55
Is that an AA5 canopy, I know someone in Liverpool looking for one!:D
Indeed we still are hunting for one!
Jon
By: bazv - 16th July 2008 at 12:36
In between the heatstroke, trench foot and Merrydown there were aeroplanes at Glastonbury again. Hidden up in Trash City was an Andover fuselage, wings/tails off ‘something big’ and some impressive kit cars made from cowlings and fairings. It was a tight squeeze getting in through the cabin window but gave an interesting vantage point on the proceedings. The cockpit was pretty much stripped, decorated with string and sprayed gold. A little panel came off in my hand and as nobody seemed to mind I’ve saved it for posterity.
nice dress Ian… is that just for weekends 😀
By: J31/32 - 16th July 2008 at 08:23
It is a RJ/RJX cockpit. There is also an RJ/RJX fin there as well.
By: blurrkup - 15th July 2008 at 23:30
The fourth pic with the nose art looks like a BAE 146 cockpit. Should know as when I was doing my training for my degree, i had the great pleasure of crawling in the hatch that is open behind the lady in the pic to put a locking pin in to lock the throttle closed.
By: Newforest - 15th July 2008 at 21:06
Is that an AA5 canopy, I know someone in Liverpool looking for one!:D
By: ian_ - 15th July 2008 at 20:21
If I take a big bag to Glasto each year I should have have it flying by 2053. Baby steps…
By: ian_ - 15th July 2008 at 20:19
They’d chopped off the back end where the serial would be and there was nothing visible in the cockpit so no idea, although judging by the ironing board and manequin inside it was the same one as last year.
By: Airspeed Horsa - 15th July 2008 at 20:19
Nice! The start of a project? Will it be at…?:o
By: Arabella-Cox - 15th July 2008 at 20:16
Andover XS641 ?
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