Yes, good luck. There should be a few items in circulation as the AH7 went OSD last month.

There may be a glut of Lynx 7 airframes coming onto the market soon, as the aircraft approaches its OSD.

One of the test labs ‘out east’ was reputed to contain a device known as ‘The Bell’. Whatever it was tended to prove fatal to the staff working on it. Nasty.

Google “Die Glocke”.

When I first came across the Lynx AH1 in service as groundcrew ISTR noting that the cabin floor is fitted with small hatches that would be the right size to cover feed-chutes for 20mm rounds. Whether these chutes were carried-over onto the MK7 and 9 I’m not certain, as by the time I qualified to fly them we always had a plywood freight-floor fitted.

Didn’t the prototype lancaster (or a test Lanc) go down when the life raft popped out and fouled the tail?

Halifax PN305 was lost shortly after take-off from Davidstow Moor, killing all 21 on board. The cause seems to be the inadvertant release of the liferaft, fouling the empennage.

The issue knife is designed without a point, (as it seems Aircrew can’t be trusted), but it’s chief purpose is to enable one to cut through one’s seat straps. On the rare occasions I had an inflatable dinghy strapped to me I carried one of the old pattern knives with a much more purposeful blade.

Plus, the recovery team had a pretty good idea where it was.

Bon chance.