Except 339….. wasn’t there a thread last year where someone suggested that people in the “cockpit movement” were cutting cockpits off perfectly good airframes for their own benefit, i.e not to preserve something that was being scrapped, but because they wanted a cockpit.
Logically the person who wanted the cockpit, and the person who wanted a complete A/C, should both be able to have what they want without separating an entire airframe, when one has already been cut.
339 is hardly a “perfectly good airframe”! but yes, in an ideal world, I’d have parted with 838’s cockpit and taken 339 as a single lump, but having spent countless hours on her I’m loathe to part with her – especially as she is now probably one of the most complete sea hawk cockpits in the UK. The best solution was as described. This actually saved a lot on transport costs which we, as individuals, struggle to cope with.
With high costs, limited finances and the usual storage difficulties, we made the difficult decisions we did to do the best we could to save these aircraft.
I do apologise to the W&R team though! 😉
Roy.
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