They have some great cockpits lined up. An AH-1 cockpit is amongst the top 5 cockpits I would love to own but sadly that is not going to happen outside the US.

Would love to go on a cockpit ‘deployment’ – just need someone with big pockets to ship a cockpit around the world for me!

Good luck guys on a great event.

Paul

Great work from the Qattara team.

I am disappointed even more now (although I should have expected it) after looking at their close up photos nearly all of the cockpit instruments have had their glass smashed and some of the warning lights have been removed or broken off. It is less like a time capsule every day. You can tell from their website that the Qattara guys are upset too.

Paul

Its the button on the left side of the grip which has a blue surround and is pushed down . Not a Jag person but could be nose wheel steer.

Thanks

Yes, I have one of those. I am quite happy to post it over if you PM me a postal address. See below.

Paul

Thanks for letting us know Mo.

Very sad news indeed. Both of the books mentioned above are excellent, I have lost track of the number of times I have read ‘No Moon Tonight’

Paul

I would just like to extend my best wishes to all of the participants and organisers for a great weekend. Enjoy yourselves.

Cheers Paul

Remarkable photos. There are certainly some Indian ones in there, the rest look like a stalled production line? What is the aircraft in the second and third photos? Single fin, twin seat, engines above the wing…

Cockpit anyone…

http://www.ebay.de/itm/ISKRA-TS-Flugzeugteil-Flugzeug-/270980672193?pt=Transportwesen&hash=item3f17b4eac1#ht_500wt_1413

The price seems a bit steep although the seller is a quite reasonable guy, I bought my Mig 21 cockpit off him last year (you can just see it in the back of one of the old photos), and he went out of his way to help me.

Hi Walshlee

In regards to the latest version of events that day I feel it a little hard to believe that Sheppard took off 30 min later and followed Copping in the wrong direction, why?, even if he was travelling twice as fast (say 150 and 300 mph?) it would still take 30 min to overtake Copping and Sheppards plane was damaged too, you would need to know a very accurate bearing to follow to catch up to someone at this distance – even 1 degree out would put you a long way apart at that range, just seems dodgy to me but I wasn’t there so anything could have happened.

Your account also contains the phrase “I recall….” who is it that recalls this incident, can you let us know if it was a pilot, ground crew etc and their name.

Regards
Paul