Hi, Many thanks for all the replies, I will stick (excuse the punn) a label on it. At the War & Peace I saw a Vickers yoke, looked Vicking to me or something simular also a few German grips but could have been fakes?? and an early Mig stick.

By chance did you get any details of the person selling the viking yoke? Thanks

Hmmmm Are any WWII Spitfire pilots still about having sat for the best part of a number of years in these radiated cockpits?

Here’s a new one from an S2F-3 which has an attractive Star Wars quality. The other came with it (always worth a ‘do you have any others?’) and might be DC6, certainly not C47 as described. Can anyone say it’s an original centre cap? It looks injection moulded and thus difficult to reproduce. Some work now going towards the fest too, old teak lab benches turning into stands.

Ian, the wheel you have is generic for DC4 C54 DC6 DC7 (but not DC7C). The left hand switch doesn’t look original but the centre cap certainly is. (What is the engraving if anything on the bezel of the switch? ) The Convair 240 340 440 series had a near identical wheel with some very subtle differences, notably the serial number on the rear of the horizontal spoke would start with the number 240. Nice wheel!
The DC3 wheel was totally different.

Okay boys and girls you must have a look at this shop in the south of France, imagine this store at the end of your street, You would never be home! This guy has lot’s of grips, yokes and instrument panels for sale. If you look at his front page there is a google map. Go to the Satilite mode, then click top right corner to open and enlarge the map image and you can walk right into the shop and look at what’s on offer in the display cabinets. Click on the floor next to the cabinets to get even nearer. I used google translate to correspond with the shop owner, he seemed prompt and efficient in his replies which were in French. He ships to the UK so Happy shopping!!
http://www.nostalgic-aviation.com/index.html

If you cannot navigate around the map then click on the catalogue tab at the top of the shops page.

Early Skeeter.
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Thankyou I’ll pass the identity on

Current Round up of ebay items for grips and yokes:
Tornado F 3 grip, item no 191164026674
C130 wheel item no 201052387231
I wonder if we will start to see more of the C130 parts, are they being scrapped in the UK?
UH- 1 Huey grip? Item no 261471622916
Canberra yoke and column item 231223461104
Nimrod and column item 141255738541
Lynx grip and column with history item 141255738541
Vickers Varsity item no 121309890502
Lockheed Constellation item no 121328355040

Well mixed views from people. personally for me it was an enjoyable day out. Over a handful of aerojumble stalls plus the obligatory book and model stores etc. purchased some interesting items. Weather was good if not a little breezy. Enjoyed watching the yaks fly overhead, think I also saw a scout or wasp helicopter fly in? A number of attempts were made to start the AN2 but to no avail, pity I was looking forward to hearing this beast. Overall good day for me worth attending.