I retrieved quite a few Tornado control columns from the remains of that film, one prop was an enormous steel seat that I didn’t see in the film, it had a label on it saying something like Troy Campers seat ? with a Tornado column either side (no tops) and an unmolested but bare B52 downward firing ejector seat that hadn’t been used. They used two B52 seats in the film by cutting about a foot off the top of the back, and sticking all sorts of random scrap and car parts and tubes on the back and spraying them silver. As a recognisable prop from the film they went on to sell for quite a lot after they had changed hands a few times, though in real life they looked like real tat, as do most film props.
I still have some Battle Droid bits I found, that have been lovingly, and covetously fondled by Star Wars nerds who have visited my house, but stupidly no Tornado control column that I could lovingly fondle in my home !!!!
I remember the B52 seats and a F86 canopy amongst other bits returned to the yard after filming for Star Wars finished. Funny really, as a collector of aircraft cockpits and parts, I had no interest in the film stuff. I should have bought Star Wars stuff instead of all the Phantom, Tornado, Buccaneer, Jaguar, Lightning parts I bought
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