That is awesome what a cracking project, I love the fact it has an ashtray for that post combat cigar.

When I’m stuck for US made stuff I contact Cpt Nick at the APHS http://www.oncealoft.com/ he normally has most of the round Korry type indicator lamps available.

I plan just to clean the storage dirt off them and get them on a frame for display, I think to restore them would lose too much of their history.

The overhead was from the same source and is apparently of the same origin and on balance seems to be in the same shape as the main panels. It’s definitely been a tad damp at some stage. Dialling in the provenance is a challenge as you can imagine, certainly it’s missing from the flight deck at Doncaster whereas the captains overhead is still in situ.

I went at the weekend in the gales well worth a visit. There’s the VC10 C1K, Herc and Nimrod R1 outside for starters. The Short Belfast for sheer scale, the Comet 1XB for a dramatic demonstration of fatigue, an Avro Lincoln to see how many spot it’s not a Lancaster and the TSR2 to show what can be achieved despite adversity with a back story of how not to run a development programme.

Superb day at Old Warden, so many great displays.

Anyone see what happened by the hangars we saw all the ambulances etc and two or three people being treated on the ground which was odd.

I happily stand corrected 🙂 Interesting how that is chopped from the theatres own potted history page, some of the other history’s I read and wiki seems an odd thing to do since it’s quite an interesting part of the theatres history. So many entertainment venues have had other careers it still amazes me how little the upper floors in quite a few of the Bingo hall/supermarket conversions we’re actually touched some still have projection gear and arc lights in situ. I remember well having to explain the tan on one side of my face from the days operating follow spot for productions using arc lights…great for bubbling the paint on the garage across the street when tested prior to going out on hire 😉

Sounds very possible it was around that time that the remaining Merchantmen were being retired and given the final ultimate weight reduction so likely that a lot of surplus was also about.

The linky below shows the Brooklands Vanguard flight deck:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/treecreeper/9334127410/sizes/o/

Another great aircraft built at the wrong time much the same as the Britannia.

Your mystery panel is a Vickers Vanguard overhead panel.

Can I bag first refusal if it’s heading for the NAM surplus stall at Cockpitfest 😉

I’m the custodian of one of the last remaining parts of G-BDIT, the G-BDI* Comets were all ex RAF Comet C4’s from 216sqn. G-BDIT ended it’s days at Blackbushe with the intention of turning it into a café, that never materialised and it’s last bit of limelight was as a prop for the Madness video for Wings of a Dove.

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