Plenty of Sea Hornets went into the sea around the UK, but unless they were made from 10″ sections of oak, and were quickly covered with silt, I doubt if the wood has survived! 😀

I’m sure that there was a large piece of aircraft skin hung on the inside wall. Which was the aircraft type and serial?

Yes, definitely from a Night Fighter

The Balsa Cabin list 2mm. birch plywood on http://balsacabin.webs.com/ They are in Malden, Essex and are a 100% reliable mail order company. It might be a problem though posting it to you in the size you want. I don’t know whether it could be classed as aviation quality. Most ply used by modellers is flexible with one of the grains at 90 degrees to the other two. I believe aviation quality ply is referred to as square with the three grains at 45 degrees to each other.

The Balsa Cabin is excellent. I get all my wood from there. In the past if I have needed larger sheets I called them to “order” the uncut sheets, or cut them to the size I wanted. They were very helpful.

The quality of their wood is excellent too. Don’t go for the “lite ply” as this is not suitable, but all of the other ply is really good. It planes/sands/routs to a very high accuracy.

Melwick,

Here is a shot I took back in 1967. We used it in the boo and I was amused to see my late father in law in the shot, by the door.

We also have a shot of it ‘in service’ with the code LO-B at Prestwick in 1941.

I wonder why they took the legs off.

Mark

More interested in the Meteor – which one’s this? (oo-er missus on a Spitfire forum)

I had a G.45 camera marked with a Hunter serial number!

I’d say the first image shows a mk I judging by the thin prop.

tu ôl

Hi alan,

A Hornet or Sea Hornet canopy cover would be an excellent find!

Fingers crossed….