Was at Yeovilton today and saw the Vixen arrive loud and fast! Looked magnificent!

I’m sure David Collins will be along in due course and he’ll be able to tell you all you could possibly want to know, but in the meantime I can tell you the little I know.

I drew the illustrations that went in to the Dalrymple & Verdun Hornet book mentioned in the die-cast forum you linked to in your first post. The profile I posted above is one of the 4-view set of WB880 from the book. The caption that accompanied the 4-view gives the basic info of the aircraft, i.e. F.3 WB880 c1955 operated by the Far East Training Squadron at RAF Seletar and RAF Butterworth.

I really like this colour scheme, especially as the spinners are painted in such a way that they form the RAF roundel when viewed from the front.

Over to you DC!

Mark

In practice this might mean that once a photo has lost its copyright notice (assuming it ever had one) by for instance it being stripped by harvesting or database software or even manually, it is fair game for others to exploit.

In theory it’s not quite as simple as that. As I understand it you have to prove that you have made all efforts to contact the original copyright owner before using the material. What actually constitutes ‘proof’ though and how strenuous you have to be in seeking out the original owner I don’t know. I suspect it’ll be very little in both cases though, and everything without metadata or some other copyright notice will be fair game.

Hi Howard, just wanted to ask is it because you’re out of space of the museum website re taking the pics of the old Fests down,

Photos of previous ‘fests here – http://www.photobucket.com/cockpitfest

Mark

it is the cloth cover which is riveted around the drogue apeture and covers the chute itself.

Yes, that’s definitely the “Sleeve” then. Any one of the three I quoted above will do you. They’re not always the easiest thing to find, but at least you know what you’re looking for now.

I’ll have a look at the spares I have to see if any are suitable, but I don’t think there are in all honesty.

As for the face screen handle – it is held in the front of the headbox by two conical ‘pegs’ (one each side) which fit into holes in the front of the headbox – see attached. They’re held firm by spring loaded plungers inside the holes (items 15 & 16) so do take a little bit of force to pull out. The handle should just pull straight out though so if it’s not shifting then the spring loaded bit inside is probably corroded and stuck. If you can remove the cover plates (10 & 11) then you should be able to get in there and free them up.

I am sure we will all give it a fair chance. But the moment one of the pilots turns up with a Labrador, then gets the chop, cue mournful shot of dog sitting looking to the sky, then I’m out of there.

Moggy

Presumably you refuse to watch “The Battle of Britain” for the same reason then Moggy?! :diablo:

Single-seat Hunter for me please!

Mark