Looks more like a Mk2 seat to me – as in the 2H, 2C etc… most certainly not Vulcan (3KS) or Victor (3LS) – I’d plump for 2H Hunter seat as from the angle I can see it has all the correct bits on, in the correct place for a Hunter. But to confirm you need to look at the seat type plate on the head box.

Definitely a Mk3, look at the seat pan. Mks 2 and 3 had a common head box and frame etc. until the design of the 3 was modified. Seats to the new design have the letter “S” as a suffix to the seat type. There are circular holes to the sides of the seat back, these could be pivots for the armrests, in which case it could be Valiant, Victor Mk1 or Vulcan Mk1. The 3KS and 3LS were fitted to the Victor Mk2 and Vulcan Mk2.

If you can see the plate on the side of the head box it will give a letter after the Mk number and that will tie it down to an aircraft type.

Can’t figure what that missile is

It’s a Thunderbird, Bloodhound’s smaller brother, sort of, or sister.

The chances anyway soon if the EU has it’s way, owning even a replica of a gun will not be permitted, live machine guns like Brownings, you would need a section 5 firearms certificate, which is a very difficult thing to have.

The EU is going to have its way, the directive has been issued. Ultimately, even a broom handle sticking out of a turret will be illegal. It’s being done in the interests of preventing terrorism but some of the requirements defy the laws of physics and some will actually make it easier to smuggle working firearms into the country. Deactivated firearms, including those in preserved aircraft, airworthy and non airworthy will have to be handed in without compensation. To me it looks like part of an attack on military heritage.

The EU have said that museums run by public bodies won’t be affected but they are already allowed Firearms Certificates for everything including section 5. Question is, are Lambeth, Duxford and Hendon run by public bodies? Is a trust a public body?

Suggest you look at the HMVF and similar forums.

If enough people got off their bums and wrote to MPs and MEPs this might be stopped or amended to work here but I can’t see people doing that.

Early ejector seat head cushion and apron, drogue line, surprised no one has snapped that up

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Early-Martin-Baker-Ejection-Seat-Seat-Apron-Drogue-Line-/262227017184?hash=item3d0df2bde0:g:~ncAAOSwnH1WZZJU

That’s because it’s too dear.

Say £25 for the apron and drogue line and £50-60 for the cushion because it’s an early one.

Could that be the one or am I clutching at straws and can anyone help me with a more likely candidate?

Steve

I don’t think you’re clutching at straws but it’s going to be difficult to find details.

A letter to Lewisham Library local history section might produce some results, they’re quite keen to help but records are a bit vague in some areas.

I picked up some airframe parts in a bush on Shooters Hill, which is moving in the right direction from Welling. The Elliott works and adjacent railway junction at Lewisham were particular targets for the Luftwaffe, as was Woolwich Arsenal and the Naval Yard at Deptford. Surrey Docks was also a target, although now it and the Arsenal are full of yuppy hutches. The area was well defended, there was one or more anti aircraft batteries on Blackheath, more in Woolwich and Mudchute on the Isle of Dogs, which still has a 3.7″ gun.

So the chances of bits of aeroplane falling out of the sky are pretty good

His service number was:1322754

He flew in Sterlings, Blenheim’s, Wellingtons and Lancasters, served two tours. A friend of mine scanned his logbook and sent the scans to me.

Here’s one page from the logbook, not sure if these are of interest to anyone but it fascinates me? Cheers, MP

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Log books are always of interest. It’s surprising how much difference there is between different people’s entries. My father’s log book just gives the target and what they dropped on it. I acquired another log book of someone on the same squadron at the same time and he wrote almost half a page in some cases, so now I know more about my Father’s service.

I’ve a number of other log books, one of the things I do is see how many of the aircraft are still around. One has Spitfires AB910 and AR614 on adjacent pages.

Anyone know where this came from?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Shorts-SC1-VTOL-Aircraft-Rolls-Royce-RB-108-Jet-Engine-RARE-Harrier-forerunner-/131573531776?hash=item1ea264c480

Thought they were all in Museums. Seller has a number of other engines for sale, looks like he bought a collection

This reminds me a bit of the Goon show p*ss take off of the ‘Quatermass and the Pit’ science fiction production on BBC in ‘nineteen canteen’. The plot was the discovery of a mysterious large cylindrical object with a strange inscription on it, when a new tube station was being dug. The Goons translated the inscription as “Min-a-tor” but the ‘thing’ turned out to be a lost Tube train and the inscription was “Mind the Door”. Well I laughed as a boy!

John

I still have a cassette or LP with that show on it. Think it was called “Quatermess and the pit” The line that I remember, and that couldn’t be used now, was when they found a skull. Harry Secombe said it must be a woman because the mouth’s open