Same here, weather permitting. There’s a nice little B&B pub nearby. Popham is just too cold to camp and dodging the dual carriageway for a meal at Heston’s Little Thief has lost it’s appeal.

What a splendid project! Just enough to sit in, all the big stuff intact and most of the glazing to keep out the wet. My first Seaking experience was also the Airfix kit, a tag team build with my mum. The thread was quickly tangled on the rotor/winch arrangement left the poor astronaut dangling. The Polish ebay seller is probably your best bet for the collective, and no customs being EU. I’ve got a spare cyclic if you have anything sticky to swap and a not quite correct hover meter. This pic isn’t much use for identifying bits but does look good!
Helicopter dials do seem a challenge. I’m after a VSI for my Lynx panel and have seen more Spit trim indicators and flap levers turn up. Even the helicopter museum didn’t have a spare (although they do have a good stock of instruments) I gave up and made one of the switches.

Thanks for the link on the Seabee yoke, Fly.Buy. A very attractive aircraft with a nice James Bond connection. A good excuse to build a model one too! Once aloft have an excellent site as a resource but the prices are quite exciting.
I’ve just got another SAMM type grip, but this time with a Hebrew label and an 84 date stamp. A peek on Wikipedia suggests late Kfir.

Sorry Elliott. These have been on ebay several times. I’d have to say no. The style of 3 is wrong and the font a nearest fit. I’ve got a very bent original with good providence.

I’m no button expert but that does look a lot like the “Spit” type. They were of course used on many other things, though ebay suggests otherwise.
I must leave ebay alone for a while. This can’t happen again.

It’s the sighting head part of a Mk1 gyro gunsight. Tested on Spits and in gun turrets but not a great success due to looking through the tiny eyepiece. Led on to better things!

Not mine unfortunately Swifter, here’s the story cut and pasted from the ‘Warrelics.eu’ forum, it was a year or so ago:
“Something a little more modern than usual, kindly donated by an ex-RAF BD chap who found it during an airfield EOD clearance sweep:
Control wheel centre cap from a SAC B-47 based at Greenham Common from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s.
The initial thinking was it may have been from one of the two B-47s lost on the ground through accidents at Greenham Common, one crashed on landing and was scrapped on site (53-2134 “City of Lincoln”), the other being destroyed by fire after being hit by a jettisoned drop tank from another B-47 while being preflighted (53-6204).
However, the serial numbers show these two aircraft were Douglas-built and Boeing-built respectively.

Graham Luxton kindly provided another potential source today, Lockheed-built B-47E 52-258 formerly of the 305th Bomb Wing (a descendent of the wartime 305th Bomb Group).
“She arrived from MacDill AFB, FL, in 1959 to serve as a weapons loading trainer and was parked for many years at the west end of the base next to buildings constructed for rotating SAC bomb squadrons. Engineless, gunless and missing lots of other parts it was cut up for salvage in early 1964 as part of a base clean up before SAC departed.”

Sadly, because the centre caps weren’t individually marked, there is no way to prove this particular cap belonged to any particular airframe.
It will be living in the Archive room at Alconbury airfield when I’ve finished cleaning it up.”
(BD = Bomb disposal, EOD = Explosive ordnance disposal)