Most certainly Eurofighter Typhoon.

John.

Gents,

Could it be from a B.2 of sorts?, here is a shot of the same panel in WV787 at Newark, she is a B.2 (mod).

Regards,

John.

Peter,

Not sure about the tail code of the aircraft you are refering to but as t your interesting point about fuel, the F.6 ventral fuel tank is made in three seperate peices and the forward section was a fuel tank fitted out with two 30mm Aden cannon (obviously in seperate compartments!).

This could be changed out for a forward section that was all fuel tank to allow greater range on a sortie but at the loss of cannon.

Will have a dig in my books later to see if I can find the bird you are talking about.

Regards,

John.

Not quite correct :p

The outer twin rotax switch hole is for the 3-position screen wiper switch, the inner is for the screen de-ice.

The single rotax switch holes are for flood lighting (outer) and flowmeter totaliser reset (inner).

The engine fuel flow rate pushbuttons are on the centre retractable fuel panel.

Somewhat odd are the two single rotax switch holes above where the ASI lives – I’d need to look through my Vulcan AP’s to see if I can find out what they are for.

HTH.

My pilots notes and acompanying diagrams must be wrong then.

John.

Excellent pics, it’s not the camera that makes a good picture, it’s the person who presses the shutter release.

Considering the conditions you have got some shots to be pleased about.

Regards,

John.

Benyboy

The Lightning is XG327, one of twenty pre-production aircraft that were used in the development of the type before it entered service.

This picture was taken at RAF Manston where she was road transported too in 1977, she was used as a pilot rescue trainer and then as a fire training airframe, severly burned up she was finally scrapped by Hanningfield metal in 1993.

Regards,

John.

Farnborough?

Johnboy.

Morning all,

I have spent a while now examining this item and would like to offer an alternative and objective look at the validity of the sellers claims.

My gut feeling is that this is a GENUINE piece of noseart, from what aircraft though I am not entirely certain.

A few things point to its validity, my first is the claim that the paint covers the rivet holes, this I feel is an unfair assumtion as you can deduce from the way the piece is bent it has clearly been ‘ripped’ from the airframe and the rivets have pulled through the skin leaving a neat hole……….

You can see in the above picture the rivets as they have been pulled through the skin leaving a neat hole, also there are some rivets that are part way pulled through leaving a neat ‘pocket’ that would have been filled in with paint had this been painted afterwards if it was faked.

This picture above shows the rivet holes that have been dished out as the rivets have been pulled through.

Also after plouring over the pictures it is clear to see that there is no paint on top of the corrosion, surely if this is fake then there would be paint on top of corrosion?.

In the picture below is evidence that the artwork was not exclusively reserved for aft of the cockpit of a Hurricane, it was also painted on the metal skining on the starboard side under the cockpit……

Going back to my gut feeling, I would be inclined to say this piece was genuine but I would have to have confirmation by any manufacturers stamps on the skin, all that is eveident in the listing though is two stamps, 101 and 192 in little boxes and until these are confirmed the jury is still out:D.

Tin hat on, hiding behind sofa……

John.