Stirling hatch

Here are some Photos of the Hatch,hope they are of interest?

Hello FN, There is very little Stirling stuff about,when I started collecting it in 1989,people I met were all too keen to exchange Stirling Fittings for Lancaster stuff,The Stirlings rightly or wrongly didn`t have the same allure.There are now however a few Lanc `homebuilds` some superbly engineered from nothing.The biggest loss to the Stirling `cause` I feel was when a pile of cockpit airframe which came out of a riverbank was scrapped about ten years ago.it really was in superb condition.If I see anything Stirling these days ,I try to get it and worry about the money later,the stuff appears when people are skint then is bought and goes to ground again.I saw an escape hatch on an `auction site` which, true, went for alot of money,but I wish I`d bought it now as to make one would take some serious time and never be original.

Duct

Folks,

A couple more photo’s of that same cockpit section…….

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Another photo from the same cockpit section showing the external air duct.

Air Publication 101-2803-1B
Gannet Aew Mk3 Aircraft

Chapter 2 Radar installation

The A.R.I.5885 is a navigational equipment operating on the Doppler principle,which measures:
(1) Ground speed over a range of 60 to 800knots,and
(2) Drift angle from 0 to 30 degrees port & starboard,
at altitudes between 200 & 60,000ft .
The information is presented on an indicator in the crew cabin on the forward
top decking ,port side.

Basic list from the Gannet AEW 3 manual.

AN/APX-7
A.R.I.5848 F-4 I.F.F. MK.10
A.R.I.23134/3 I.F.F MK.10
A.R.I.1807/1 TACAN
A.R.I.5885
AN/APS-20F
AN/ART-28

Andrew

Darrt

I joined DARRT in 1993 and went on a couple of digs and loved every minute of being part of the group, however as the years went by things slowed down quite a lot recovery wise.

Two other members are in this Forum HMS Vulture and BrewerJerry, the later being the authour of the RAF Harrowbeer book, and HMS Vulture being DARRT’s secretary.

Robin (chairman) of the group had his fair share of personal problems to deal with over the years, and everything recovered I think since the late 60’s/70’s is in storge, DARRT has a museum but I think things are on hold at the moment.

It would be nice for the items recovered to be displayed but as usual ‘TIME’ is always hard to spare as most of us have boring things to do on weekends!!!

Amongst the items in the collection are numerous engines/airframe parts and a complete Fairey Battle wing, the list is endless……………:)

🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

“Two other members are in this Forum HMS Vulture and BrewerJerry, the later being the authour of the RAF Harrowbeer book, and HMS Vulture being DARRT’s secretary.”
Also dont forget ‘2 A.A.C.U.’

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