Good luck with that. Rarer than hens teeth as far as I can tell. If you find more than one though please let me know 😀

It is odd why these are so rare yet they were just as commonly used as many other parts still easily found.

There’s quite a few walkarounds online. This is good:

http://www.primeportal.net/hangar/mark_hayward/supermarine_s.6b_s1595/

A Visual Effects breakdown of the movie here. No mention of the Lynx being a visual effect. A lot of talk about shooting for real and models with CGI helping.

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/skyfall/

Where have I heard that before? :rolleyes:

Seriously, did the UK ever have a realistic (that is likely to be financed) manned space program planned?

My mistake. There was a manned spacecraft built but long since demolished and funded by a prominent US backer.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/4555455.stm

(there is an historic aviation related feature in the article, I swear!)

Where have I heard that before? :rolleyes:

Seriously, did the UK ever have a realistic (that is likely to be financed) manned space program planned?

I don’t think Tony said anything about manned space flight, he was talking about a satellite launch system known as Black Arrow. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Arrow

“As of 2011, the United Kingdom is the only country to have successfully developed and then abandoned a satellite launch capability.[26] All other countries that have developed such a capability have either retained it through their own space programme or, in the case of France, through its involvement in the Ariane programme.”

Yes, I think that’s the case.

You’ve answered part of your own question; made by Aeroplastics; they do appear from time to time. I have one available if you are interested, but it wont plug straight in!

Bruce

As you say Bruce, it likely won’t plug in straight away.

How do Hurri and Spit seats compare? A quick look on Google suggest they don’t compare well. Why would that be if the differences were just mounting points?

Funny what a tiny bit of digging will do. Guaranteed to only show up AFTER posting a question about it:

http://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?showtopic=39906

The “plastic” seat first appeared in May,1940, and was always viewed as an alternative, not a replacement, though metal seats would have been few-and-far-between once Supermarine’s factory was destroyed in 1940. They stayed with the Spitfire right up to, and including, the 24, and, certainly, the Seafire 17. Post-war, they were rescued, and used in other airframes like the Provost, Vampire, Meteor and Hornet. They were produced by Aeroplastics Ltd., a Glasgow-based company, now defunct, though Tufnol (another Glasgow company) advertises a similar-sounding product. The seat was never made from Bakelite (may curses rain down on the Whitehall mandarin who used that name in a Spitfire manual,) nor Tufnol; it was always known, simply, as the “plastic seat.”

My bet would be the Whirly used a metal seat…