Great news Easy Tiger.

Tempest V.
PM sent. Many thanks

Hi flyingblind,
I didn’t receive any PM from you. I guess it’s the “new” forum gremlins.

Hi TempestV,

The AC 1400 was indeed fitted to the F8 Meteor and the FB1 & FB4 Venom. It was also fitted to a few other early (mostly) jet aircraft, including the Supermarine Attacker, Firebrand, Wyvern, the early T11 Vampire (and most export Vampire trainers) and the NF10 Vampire, possibly more?

However, the handle has two guises. One with plain buttons and one with the letters C & M on them. The plain ones are fitted to the single seat aircraft and the ‘C & M’ buttoned ones fitted to multi-crew aircraft. It was probably the first ‘universal’ straight handle that Dunlop produced to be fitted to aircraft using ejection seats. However, some of the aircraft previously mentioned subsequently changed to the AC 10300 handle.

Indecently, AP 4343X states that the AC 1400 handle is exactly the same as the AC 10800 except, for the words ‘RP & Bombs’ etched on the top cover of the AC 10800 and the cover of the AC 1400 is plain.

GYD

Hi GYD,

Thank’s for your very informative reply. The C & M letters are particulary interesting as I seem to recall having seen these on Meteor Night fighters.

Cheers,

An excellent find. Thanks for sharing.

I believe the project is “resting” following a house move, however smaller parts have been tinkered with over time.
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Hi Matt,

I’d gladly offer help, but I’m already supporting two other aircraft projects with CAD drawings!

Yes, Sea Venom based look-a-likes built by the Navy.
​I’d only ever seen still photos of them, and am impressed to see they were actually conversions of live aircraft! I would imagine these were never to fly again though.