It also depends on what type you are building. The early III’s had a simple cushion (like the version I am building) where the bomb aimer was lying on his belly. The later versions such as NA337 had the more comfortable seating arrangment.

Up to you Phil,

Cheers

Cees

At least that is the colour I chose

Cees

Phil,

Leather was used, but could be black or brown. My bet would be on the latter

Cees

Cees, Do Turretboy’s pictures give you what you need? Let me know if you need any more detail of anything.

Deryck

Deryck,

Well, any info on the throttle box and bombbay is welcome. Mike’s pics are great and are a great help but the bombbay structure is very complicated.

Cheers

Cees

Back earlier in the thread someone asked the time required to restore NA 337, it was 10 years and a couple of months and some 350,000 manhours. The cost of the materials involved was about $1.0M.
Federal Government funding was received (I seem to recollect around $300,000.) to help with the recovery, which was done by Dacom Sea Sub, the remainder was raised from donations by the public, only one restoration member was a paid employee to oversee the work on the majority of the project, one other was paid to help restore the main spar. The value of the volunteer labour was estimated at around $9.0M.

Deryck,

Money well spent I would say. Do you have any pics showing the general bomb bay? For my 1/32 model I need some info on the structure and the manuals I have don’t give any clues (as do the scarce pics on the internet of the bombbay).

Cheers

Cees

Prognosis:
If you form a museum, do not form a charitable status, and allow those who were never involved in the original project, to take over and form an old boys club!

As it is now, it is stuffed full of silent exhibits and very few personnel who know anything of their real history.

Pity to read that this is thus not only happening in Holland but everywhere around the globe 😡

We have had the same experience with our own museum where people who have nothing in common with those who started the organisation in the early days, thought it necessary to wage some sort of personal war against those who run the whole organisation. After having “persuaded” these pioneers to leave only a few remained who knew what they were talking about and had to keep up with those irritating nitswits.

And they said it’s a hobby…………….

Andy Sauders is one of my heroes and got me starting in Aviation Archeaology in the first place.

Cheers

Cees

P.s. Black Panther, good on you to admit being wrong.