The Wyvern used an E2A (as a backup) mounted in eye line at the top of the windscreen!

Nothing – I’ve no idea what it is but to me it seems a bit big for that.
Thanks for that MM, it’s been a while since I’ve watched that particular film but fascinating as always.
Unfortunately theres not much ground equipment movement going on – and that’s pretty much the case with a lot of carrier deck films I’ve watched from the fifties!
What a great story and a very fitting final resting place. Well done Sywell!
You could be right as the tow tractor yellow is not a colour I’m familiar with. Having said that there doesn’t seem to be a standard yellow colour on Suez stripes painted on aircraft either, unless it is the photos that show them to be different shades of yellow!
Oracal – to me the yellow appears to be a much darker shade of yellow – using the yellow stripes of the aircraft as a guide.
Adrian – as you say the red reminds me of the standard red as seen on David Brown Cropmaster agricultural tractors. As for the odd looking one I’ve no idea, possibly a tugmaster variant?!
Well from a personal point of view I’ve answered two requests for information on this forum, and received no responses in return from the OP. So you start to think what’s the bloody point.
And as for attracting members back who have left, I can’t see that happening until Key Publishing get off their big arrogant arses and actually make the effort to apologise officially and unreservedly to members who made this forum what it originally was, for the almighty cock up that they have created. You didn’t even have the decency at the time to confide in your moderators as to what was going on!
BH and cabbage – thanks for the extra information. It was once owned by an ex RN Pilot, so I was trying to see if it had some sort of RN connection. But it would appear not!
AH5007 5.5 x 4 = Blenheim Mk. I, IV & V, Whirlwind, Tornado, Typhoon, Firebrand, Lysander!
From what I can see all four cockpits plus several other items have been passed and not sold.
Ok chaps here you go. A photo of the clipping from the Herts and Essex Observer newspaper showing the crater in which I presume the OP is standing!
Anyone still interested in this?
Wow that is absolutely fantastic that you have photos / details of both the last flight and it’s crew on that day. I know these details are sometimes recorded in photos when an aircraft goes to a museum – not so much when one goes to a final destination for scrapping, ground use etc!
Thank you for the extra info, BH.
So on that basis, I’m assuming that the Sea Vixen could also be a type that it could of been used in?
Thanks for the response Shorty. In the second photo it’s stamped as Issue 2, MBEU 22098 and has got a date of July 1965 which I had hoped would narrow it down to a particular Mk of seat!
RA10046 is I believe Spitfire Mk.IX !