this may be of intrest to people who like cockpits, or even the rest of the plane!
there’s a scrap yard near me in the middle of suffolk that deal mainly in MOD surplus stuff, i’ve been going there off and on for years, as they sometimes have aircraft tools (help me in my job), anyway, they have a few bits of pretty old aircraft dotted around, so far i’ve seen
jet provost t3 bonnet (you know, the front bit that opens!), its a bit tatty, but would be better than nothig if you haven’t got one
aft part of the canopy for the same, frame looks ok, but perspex is a bit milky
hunter aft fuse (last 7ft or so) been used for battle damage repair
lightning single seater canopy, frame looks ok, perspex a bit milky
red top (?) missile i think!….looks like one off a lightning
a couple of other canopies, i thought they were hunter, but after looking at pics, they may be F.4 phantom.
canberra nose perspex (B1, B2?) in good condition with flat bomb aimers window
this is the only one with a price on, listed at £60
also there are a few instruments, and cockpit blackboxes, most of the black boxes are marked up ICS, and are for intercom. they have 2 dzus fastners each end.
there are also a couple of auto pilot ones as well.
a couple of fuel contents gauges, and a fuel flow gauge. these are about 2″ in diameter, and about 8 or 9 inches in depth.
there are a lot of lap strap buckles,
arm/leg restraint connecters off things like tornados and hawks
there were some of the small gauges off the side of a tornado
ecm pod off a tornado
a couple of older drop tanks, and the nose off a large pointy drop tank (looks like a sea vixen radome, but its made of alloy)
the outboard section of a crashed hawk wing (outer 5ft or so)
also in the various rooms and storage areas are quite a few old test sets for various aircraft systems (mostly avionic ones), although there is a fuel flow test set.
out front is what looks like a pretty complete weapons loader, with a small engine on the back to power it.
there used to be a very battered aft fuse from a chipmunk (from about the battery bay back) that still had remnants of the old dayglo marking on, but i couldn’t see it this tme.
there’s also a farly good stock of various aircraft tooling, all ex RAF, things like Hitorque bits, spanners , sockets etc.
just about all the aircraft parts have been there at least 10 years, out in the open (apart from the canberra nose perspex, i’ve not seen that before), but look like they may still of some use. the small yard is full of ex MOD stuff, from crockery, to bits of landrovers, flying clothing to table cloths! (they have a small shop in the town selling military clothing).
if this sounds of intrest, i’ll post the name of the yard up, and its location.
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