Vipers in Battlestar Galactica had OV1 Mohawk joysticks with some different labels. There was certainly a lot of aviation influences in Star Wars. The Millenium Falcon gun turret scenes being pure Memphis Belle footage.

Blinking Flip Twin Otter, who did you trust to do the anti flash white scheme on the Vulcan? Heads should roll.

The Bindon Hill 190 is on the army range and thus out of bounds for detecting. Very unlikely to have come from there. The same vendor was also selling parts of a 190 recovered in France in the eighties. I’m very doubtful they the parts were as described, the whole aircraft having been cremated so comprehensively the armoured windscreen had melted.

Nice box, Tony! I got ZE201 and made a taller slimmer version than I tried before. The cable flaps around a bit so i might follow your example when I get back into the school workshop next year. Mine is old teak lab bench. The first F3 grip I got came with a servicing stand. That’s now holding up a Jag grip. (slightly more buttons, no cable).
I too love your F102 grip Nick, it looks like some Greek double headed monster. Must have felt strange to fly with one hand on half a yoke and the other on the throttle though. A strange precursor of HOTAS.

Lovely picture Huw. It looks like an illustration from an Enid Blighton Blitz book.

Some nice items. Not my usual area but I couldn’t resist this shiny pair in a local antique shop. US 20mm.

Thanks for sharing. First hand memories are getting fewer.

Cheers Martyn, I now realise just how much I don’t know! Although in the words of one of those US presidential advisors, there will be other things I don’t know I don’t know. Your grip looks the same as mine Darrell, with the exception of the flat headed screw between the buttons.