Excellent, reminds me off the expression “Knobs and teats”to describe items in the cockpit. One pulls knobs and squeezes Teats, apparently:rolleyes:

I believe RR299 was due to faulty maintenance/ignorance.

I will have to go with Dowding and Park.

Robbo, those pics are superb. Many thanks, I agree Shuttleworth is the perfect museum and their airshows should be a must.
Regret anno domini prevent me attending now.

None of the two seat Meteors had bang seats.

The feather buttons on the Mosquito were above the navs radar, a long reach for the pilot. Accidents were caused when the wrong one was hit. The fuel cocks were behind the pilot and a good reach back and where he couldn’t see them.

Ergonomics had not been thought about then.

Rebecca/Eureka was pretty standard equipment in the ’50s. I was taught to use it at nav school and it was our main aid used for homing and for BABS blind approaches. Transport Command also used it and we had it fitted to our Meteor NF13s in the Muddle East.
So I guess it was a fairly standard fitment from late war on, and very useful I might add.

No the Black Arrows was a Hunter team, forerunner of the Red Arrows.

As for the programme, it was very good. I even spotted an aeroplane that I had flown in. The Meteor NF14 which is now at Elvington.