Sadly time is the major factor that is so often lacking

Copy that.. For a while I ran the XS458 twitter feed, on top of my own (@scottbouch). Lots to manage…

It’s a shame that the Giant that is Facebook has such a big following, as I (and many other Twitter users) disagree with their (Facebooks) ethics. I closed my Facebook account out of protest recently when they bought Instagram and claimed the rights to ‘my’ images.

Facebook is a necessary evil for most organisations as it has so many users, but don’t trust it.

Twitter does seem to be the friendlier little brother, lots of nice aero debate, with very little agro.

If you’re interested in planning the future online presence of NAM (or any other organisation) I recommend talking to Christian Payne (or his alias, “Documentally”). Amongst other things, he’s advised companies, the rich and famous, etc, on how best to appear to the outside world for your needs.

See: http://www.documentally.com and Twitter @Documentally

Cheers, Scott

Don’t want to detract from the Hangar 2 prize winner’s efforts but far more effort and thought went into the display in the hopefully attached photos. The couple who set this up put as much thought and work into their display every year and while they don’t seek recognition they deserve it.

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I don’t like getting involved in the argumentative debates (or bitchy-ness) that the Fly Past forum sometimes suffers from, but I have to stick up for Flying Saucer here as most others have done.

Yes i know there exists some bitterness (only a small amount) that the stuff in the hanger isn’t ‘cockpits’, and that districts from the main aim of the event. The public voted for our helmet display to win the visitors prize, so that hopefully gives some indication of a cross section of interests in the event. (thank you visitors).

I guess we’ll never know why Mr Knifey had a dig… But I’d still be interested to see his cockpit at a Fest, and give him the praise that all displayers deserve.

I’d love a cockpit section (I really would), but time, money, space (and probably a divorce en route) are my constraints, so I give a nod to aviation heritage in the way I can afford to. It’s the same for Flying Saucer, and most of the others in the hangar. We all have common interests in Aviaion, history, technologies, its nice that we celebrate these different facets together.

For me personally, the one thing that Flying Sauces display brought to the ‘Fest (which not many other exhibits did) was a lot of FUN!. People smiled when they saw it! For me thats enough reason to give a big pat on the back…

I also have huge admiration for anyone who has restored a cockpit, engine, or any other display, towed it miles across country to display it at the Fest, you are an inspiration!

Cheers, Scott

Some more of my images of the event.

Cheers, Scott.

Thank You!

Thank You to the Public who voted for our helmet / oxygen mask display, winning a trophy was quite a big surprise!!
Thank You to Rob, Rich and Rob who joined forces with me, and really made this years flightgear display something special.
Thank You to Bill, Howard, Ken, and the museum staff for putting on another great show, and making such a great effort.
Thank You to my wife Jo and young daughter Emily for coming up on the Sunday to make it the best Fathers Day!

Great to catch up with some familiar faces, one even over from Holland! The thing I love about the Fest is how it really brings people together.. It’s all about having a good old chin-wag about our favourite subjects!

Fantastic turn out of cockpits, great to see how some have progressed, and great to see some new projects too! I take my “hat” off to the cockpiteer!

It was a really fun weekend, lots to talk about with lots of like minded people, I even had quite a few comments about my Mk2 Astra GTE!

We learnt a lot from people we met visiting about the gear we collect, ex-pilots and Squippers can always add to you ever growing curiosity and knowledge on the subject!

Took a long time to get sorted last night after getting home, so pretty tired now, but it was well worth it!

Cheers to CockpitFest!

Thanks again, Scott.

110% Lightning.

JB154 is where the seat PEC’s, intercom amplifier, and radio interface.

Definitely used in the T5, not so sure about single-seaters. In the T5 it’s located in the spine, opposite to the battery compartment, just behind the elephants ear.

Telebrief (NOT to be confused with Intercom or Radio) as far as I understand was a private hardwired comms from pilot, wired directly to whoever would be giving mission instructions privately. Telebrief would cut the radio out of the circuit so as to not transmit the conversation, even the ground crew headset intercom socket is cut off by using Telebrief. the Telebrief connector under the wing was a fairly large rubber plug with 7 pins (2 to operate a relay in the aircraft, 4 for comms, 1 for a Telebrief button in the cockpit), about the size and shape of a large wine glass.

The ground crew would plug a headset in using the large Bakelite WW2 style comms socket located near to the telebrief plug, using an adapter cable to NATO socket for an Amplivox headset. This was just connected to the Intercom and Radio, not Telebrief.

Cheers, Scott.

Had a pretty cool Dragon Rapide display over our house 2 weeks ago, arranged for the wake of our pub landlady, bless her.

http://youtu.be/EQuIqvRSiJo

Cheers, Scott.