Playing with them, and being able to afford running and maintaining them is something else.
I’m sure I read that the Victor sim was live at Elvington (?) but they stopped running it due to cost.
When complete with all the kit necesary to make them work they take up a huge amount of space.

I remember the Nimrod sim at St Mawgan (may even be one of these above)would love to see the MR.2 ones saved in a museum for sure.

I was going to say about the ASI, it doesn’t seem to read high enough.

Dolls eyes usualy start Dowty 5CZ/…. (5CZ/5071 example), there are a few different versions but they should all fill the holes in the panel.

Bruce is your man for sure, as he most likely has the correct parts list access, aswel as the parts you need!

I would love to see this come to the UK and be retuned to flying status! How come big lotto winners never seem to be post-war Fleet Air Arm fanatics?!

Maybe a return to Australia would be possible, they seem quite keen on their flying heritage.

I would also add that it looks like that it has meant to have a Thorne Plastek/Translite overlay panel.
This is a black finished facia panel with the wording etc in white, it is atached to your main panel by a multitude of small red lighting bulb holders (note all the small holes in the your panel), the effect is that the instruments and lettering shine red when the lights are on – looks fantastic when working.
The Sea Vixen uses the same system, and I must admit that I hadn’t realised that it was used previously, again perhaps peculiar to late or Australian models.

Looking briefly at pics of RAN Sea Venom FAW.53 cockpits it does look like the later type of needle/ball turn and slip was used by those variants.

The larger holes at the bottom look like they would take standard ‘dolls eyes’ indicators, perhaps for fuel management etc.

A copy of the pilots Notes would be very handy for your project.

Edit, a flaps position guage normally goes to the left of the U/C selector lever.

Did you get my pics ok Jetguy?

Been a busy week in the sun,

Jonathon Whaley took Hunter F.58 G-PSST up for their display authorisation on Weds…

Hunter T.8B was dragged out for some light…

L-29 Delfin, D-FJET, arrived by road yesterday…

…sad departure today was long term HFL inmate, Hunter GA.11 XE685 681-VL (G-GAII)

My understanding is that RAF Coastal Command went from General Reconnaissance to Maritime Reconnaissance sometime during 1954/55, the Lancaster and Sunderland going from GR to MR designations.
However according to Chris Ashworths’ book, the initial version of the Shackleton was always known as the MR.Mk.1 in service (from CA release, 31 Jan 51), that variant was based on the three GR.Mk.1 prototypes that were built and flown. The first production batch of these aircraft were ordered to a contract for Shackleton GR.1s, maybe that explains the label?

Thanks for the pics. It’s great that the RAF and BBMF still remember and commemorate this true BoB airfield.
Is there anything significant about the date?
What is left of this airfield now?