Thanks for the link Smirky, some lovely illustrations in there. The panels have changed quite a bit even between B1 and B1A. I have a set of big RPM gauges which I’ll swap soon. It is a challenge getting things correct with so little information about Mike. A development aircraft must be a real challenge.
My bad, yes, Alt not compass. Mike, I’ve gone by available photos and the Relative Bearing is top left copilot’s. Lots of the pics on line show modified or messed about panels. The Cosford cockpit has a pressure gauge where a G meter should be. Thanks for the ID Smirky, helps the searching. Only the centre panel is original, the outers are laser cut from tracings. I missed a switch on the pilot’s side, need to do some drilling and filing.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]229369[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]229370[/ATTACH]Not unreasonable for a Tornado grip but still a little salty. Did a swap for this B52 yoke, there seem to be two versions, one with a shorter central section without ribs. Can anyone explain the difference? An F89 column also made it across the Atlantic. Needs a clean! It is thick with the strange bloom which afflicts some B8s.
An impressive display, Mike. Would like to get a few things lit up but probably beyond me. The Vulcan panel is now too heavy to go back on the shelf without reinforcement so is living on the dining room table. It now has a proper clock (thanks to Farlam Airframes) but does anyone have radio compass as shown? Some tweaks needed to finish it off.
Front or back? One on ebay at the moment: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/251552473067?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
Perhaps the turbines could be named after the crew. Quite a fitting memorial…
That Swordfish had a lot of seats. Wing walking perhaps?
It is a shame so many stories have been lost, especially when they would bring a photograph alive. My late aunt Fran filled in forms and accident cards as a wartime WAAF, the same cards my very much alive aunt Philippa consulted at the Air Historical branch back in the eighties. Small world etc.
After a bit of diversionary googling here is an extract from an F89 pilot’s notes. Looks very similar but still not perfect. Been taking a bit more of an interest in Scorpions as there may be a complete stick winging/scuttling it’s way across the pond. The problem of poor air to air rocket performance appears to have been solved in a particularly ’50s USAAF style. Use nuclear air to air rockets. Job done…
A couple of evenings with the T Cut and it’ll be glistening AM. Look forward to seeing it.
Welcome to the forum Greatlakes, now do post some pics!
A very attractive trio Swifter, at such a jaunty angle . Ta Da!
Thanks for the confirmation FLY.BUY. Quite range of possibilities. The button is held down with a big nut so no ‘mic’ or similar on the bezel. My wife has taken a fancy to it so it’s now front room material.
Here’s a new one from an S2F-3 which has an attractive Star Wars quality. The other came with it (always worth a ‘do you have any others?’) and might be DC6, certainly not C47 as described. Can anyone say it’s an original centre cap? It looks injection moulded and thus difficult to reproduce. Some work now going towards the fest too, old teak lab benches turning into stands.
Now on ebay, same vendor has a prop tip:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/A-Very-Rare-Antique-WWII-Prototype-Spitfire-Fighter-Cockpit-Clock-from-K5054-/151307768059?pt=UK_Clocks&hash=item233aa550fb
I will probably pass on these.
It looks like a trim wheel, find the Halifax cockpit thread!
Now that really is something! Odd to think that a Falklands war excavation would have been in the ground longer than a 1971 BoB dig…