The trick is is to list it on EBay but not conclude the deal on there, especially on something of that value.
Personally speaking I wouldn’t bother putting it on there, anyone serious (and that is the crucial bit, avoid the wishful thinkers) about obtaining a Lightning cockpit will either be on this forum and seen the thread or Google will throw up the thread in pretty short order.

Thanks Mark, looks a brilliant way of sim’ing an original cockpit without compromising it at all, it’s given me an idea or two!

I am currently not listing the Type L gun mounting in Shackleton noses. (Arguably not a turret as it does not revolve.

Poor old Shackleton last aircraft in the RAF (by a country mile!) to use a gun turret, Peter is right as the turret is a Boulton Paul N Type remotely sighted.
Would be nice on the list just for completeness.

MR.2 WL795 at St Mawgan has the cannons fitted but some of the mechanisms removed.
MR.3 XF708 at Duxford has the cannons, and I would safely assume, the mechanics in place.
MR.3 WR977 at Newark has the mechanisms in place but not fitted with cannon.

What about your two Shacks Peter?

I’ve often wondered what happened to all the Bristol Type 17 mid uppers that were fitted to early Shacks and where then susequently removed.

Again very well said, it seems to be overlooked that safety concerns over the ‘temporary’ AAR piping were made before the tragedy but were turned down on costs grounds, you can hardly blame the Nimrod for that.
Out of the four crashes only two can be attributed to a fault on the aircraft at the time, and as said one of these was due to a recommended redesign to the fuel system not being carried out, the other (XW666) didn’t result in any loss of life
It is a real shame that the Nimrod name now seems to be synomous with disaster and failed projects, to me it was an outstanding British maritime patroller, best in the world in its MR.1/2 guise.

Oh and while I’m here, before we get carried away by the ‘teachers valuable work with kids’ thing, my missus has been working with kids since 1997 and adores her job and gives it 100%, when she worked for the US Navy she had low pay but a pension, now she is private sector for a large nursery concern in Cardiff she just has the low pay, she works 10 hour days over a five day week for a shade over £12K a year.
When people go on about safety concerns and how well regulated kids care places are, well trust me they ain’t. She has to look after way more kids than she should and the demands are very high. Her whole nusery were threatened with instant dismissal because another nusery had done something wrong!
Workers rights, pah!

Good to see you back Grey Area!:)

I certainly don’t regard myself as “lucky” to have a well-paid job. I’ve worked damned hard since I left school to get to where I am now. If you want to put that down to “luck” then fair enough. I don’t.
Unscrupulous employers take advantage of the jobs market to pay poor wages and offer poor terms and conditions. Unions exist to protect the workers from these sort of employers.

So have I, in every job I’ve had since I was 14 and not once have I been covered by a Union, that includes shop, bar, dockyard, and MoD work/management, all of which I have done my best and worked hard for.
AP lots of people have worked very hard since leaving school na dare in poorly paid and protected jobs.

Since 1998 I have been doing a flight safety job that I absolutely love for the MoD but employed by a contractor, we have had well below pay increases and no pension while I work amongst civil servants that do a lot less, paid more, and have much more protection.
I’ve been a manager for the last five years, and just recently I made demands of my boss to increase the quality of kit to ensure that the safety aspect of our job for the MoD airfield was satisfied, I recieved a written warning by email for gross misconduct, and have been threatened with instant dismissal since. Gobsmacked at this I asked why only to be told I had contrevened the company rules in the handbook – guess who wrote that?!
So for the first time in my hard working and dedicated employment time I have a severe blemish on my file, am highly stressed and sometimes dread going into work. I can’t go sick as I’m only entitled to statutory sick pay which I won’t be able to live on.
Four guys in the company are about to loose their jobs on an airfield which is being closed, they will recieve the very basic statutory redundancy pay after years of hard work.
And yet in many respects I am better off than a lot of other private sector workers.

I also do occasional agency work as a truck driver, with absolutely no conditions at all, and I really do feel for the people that have to do this full-time with very little choice as many of the bigger employers are using agencies now.
Tescos and Asdas are increasingly using agency drivers as they pay less wages and contribute nothing for hoilday, sick, and pensions, plus if they don’t like a driver they can get rid of them after a shift. Huge pressure for adriver in charge of what can be a dangerous vehicle.
It won’t be long before the state pension will be hugely overburdened against this background.

Public sectors workers do have good basic work and pension rights, and in this day and age that means alot, if they think that they are worse off than many of us private sector workers then they live in a different world and are out of touch with reality.
I can’t support these actions at all I’m afraid.