I hadn’t considered a floor mounting for it, thanks for the suggestion Stuart. Looking at the design I guess its feasible, but again what I really need are some photos of one in situ. There must be some somewhere, so I’d appreciate maybe one of the forums american members having a look for me, with my appreciation.

Rob

Thank you L8, and to Mark for working that out. So I’m assuming it’s to do with the sequence of how the bomb load could be dropped?

Anyway another find to I.d is this one, nicely marked with an embossed emblem and what looks like the letters JAHCO.
Any ideas anyone?

Rob

Re post 9 and 11, a fellow enthusiast pointed me towards the following photo to confirm Laurents i.d (photo – armor product).

Rob

An item I think I have identified on a B-50 panel is this large red lamp lense shown bottom right of the pilots panel. But I can’t quite read what the legend says below it?

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Lovely panel there Jon, thanks for posting up the photo. Interesting that the control surfaces lock doesn’t appear to be on there which seems different to the B-29. I’ll keep your photo to help with any future finds.
A smaller panel that we found is this one marked “MICROPHONE”, be nice to know where on the aircraft it was fitted such as the flight deck or rear crew compartment?

Rob

Thanks DC, that’s what I thought but a lot of the B-50 was very different from the B-29. Having looked for photos of the cockpit and flight engineer position in the B-50 they seem to be fairly scarce – at least ones that are clear enough to read legends.
I wonder if anyone has visited the B-50’s that are in museums in the US, and may possibly have photos of the flight decks that they could share? The parts found will be going towards a display in the control tower to remember those who served here briefly on the type whilst on detachment, and the five crew members who died in the accident.

Rob