Marshalls pulled the plug because they had already milked the project dry, writing off was it £2,000,000? I understand that they treated the project as a commercial entity I would love to know how much they sucked out of your donations and Lottery Grant but I guess that’s covered by commercial confidence

I do not follow this closely but there might be some misunderstanding here, “write off” means than Marshalls were owed the 2 mill but decided not to collect. Pretty generous if that is the case, after all they are not the charity in this transaction.

If you search for ” instrument panels” you will find a large thread called cockpit sections and instrument panels. You could either post in this or keep adding to your project thread you have already started – or some combination of the two. Either way people will read it and help, especially if you post some pictures.

Sorry to p**s on your chips, Motivlack but I think what you have there is half of the arm from a brass ballcock/float valve.

The knurled bit was moulded into a plastic ball/float for attaching it to the arm but it has been broken off leaving the grip in place. The thread looks like Whitworth and it has the locknut in place to stop the float being screwed off the arm in service.

Definitely not Hudson – unless they had a flushing toilet on board.

Anon.

That was my first thought (and you are allowed to say ******** 😀 ) as it is brass (post#1) that seems pretty conclusive.

Pietra, welcome to the forum. We love a mystery part especially a solved one.

I have looked at the video but didn’t spot it, is this panel in the overhead?

It is funny how de-icing panels are always put in out of the way places considering their potential importance.

I’m sure it’s not a case of what may have been modified, but what has been removed to turn it into an ‘Airshow Vulcan’. I’m thinking particularly of the Navigation and Bombing Sytem which includes H2S Mk9.

Andy

Back in the day it was said that would be returned to cold war standard at the end of display flying. However that would of course ground it for good.

Sigo, that’s really great thanks for posting and welcome to the forum. So this is the famous replica panel, you have made my day!.:)

The photos answer a lot of questions about how to mount the panels, I was confused about this and the position of the bolt holes.

If you have some dimensions for the frame that would be even better.

Interesting BDRT video from 1983 featuring Buccaneer XN983 . Was this aircraft intentionally damaged for the video?, or was this genuine damage from an exercise? Aircraft continued to serve front line until being scrapped at Shawbury in 1994. Aircraft Battle Damage Repair: http://youtu.be/8Ah58lTSZvE

Cool video but can’t believe thay flew that one again.