Charles, thanks for such a full round up of the state of the game. I appreciate the hard work that you and your small team have put in so far. For those who have never worked on a Lightning, or other old war bird for that matter, the infrastructure and ancillary equipment used is enormous and is often over looked. I’m surprised that so much of it still exists as it could so easily been considered as junk and simply tossed into the recycler.
Looking at the picture of Pip behind the bullet bought back very fond memories. As a radar techie, I often had to squeeze in there to kick the bullet out, they were forever getting stuck. Worse still was getting the top loading plug ‘shells’ to go in or get them out. The slightest bit of miss-alignment and the battle was on. BTW, there’s a snow balls chance in hell that I could get in there now.
Due to the demise of Thunder City in South Africa, is there a chance you might be able to procure so of your needed items? Such a pity what happened down there. I hate to think what will happen to that collection as non of the aircraft has any significance in S.A.
Anyone know where I might get my hands on a Lightning control stick for my ultralight (that I may build one day)?
Good luck gang. Doug.
PS, does your radar work by any chance, or did the RAF remove the attack computer before selling her off?
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