Nice photo Cotteswold. Would much rather be behind than in front of them!

75 shillings for a bomb sight computer must have been quite steep back then though?

More nice stuff. Fly.Buy, was that hand luggage from a Soviet holiday? Don’t see much of it over here!
Martyn, the grip is supposedly FG1, with a blanked of button due to the lack of nose wheel steering. It came with the knurled attachment ring, the base being bought separately in a job lot of books. The vendor was ex services and thought it was removed from Black Mike during an upgrade. It does have a single position trigger but I think the F4 give away is the lack of wrist rest on the side.
On a smaller scale the button is from Spit BM540, flown by 303 Sqn with some success before being given to the Yanks so they could join in with the war. The pilot abandoned it over Salisbury Plain and it is obvious from the condition just how hard it hit the chalk! The photo popped up in an Osprey book of Polish Aces, BM540 being closest the camera.

Here are a couple more:

Nice! That’s a lot of engineering attached to a tiny little grip!

****’s Hurricane was a brilliant weekend, drove straight from school on Friday and could see the barge bobbing in the Fleet. watching the spade grip dangling on the tooth of the digger bucket was pretty special!
Thanks for the extra pic Tony, the detail in a ‘mock up’ is impressive. I saw the production one on ebay and gave in. Nobody else bid. That said it is a terrible design. Compared to a contemporary F16 throttle it’s all over the place and very uncomfortable.
Banansplits, Wow! The column is astonishing but I must admit to liking your poster even more. If that could be reproduced full size it would form a veritable shrine in my study. It sets off the column superbly.
Rob, the Stuka stick looks to be a standard KG13, the only difference being a blank id plate. It is the correct size but plain black anodized. The top has been melted off so not sure about the rest of it. The ‘H’ trainer version had the innards of an Arado 96 cockpit grafted in, but the stick would give more of a Stuka feel than the plain wooden stick of the Arado. It is quite rare, there are no photos in existence of the Ju87H trainer at all!

Fully in favour of them Martyn! There are lots of loose B8s out there but having identifiable to type ones makes it. You’ve got quite a collection there, looking forward to seeing more! I’ll sort out some more dig ones in proper light although Fighterace has the pick of the dug grips.

Thanks Martyn, that’s useful information. I’d suspected Mirage when the column arrived but didn’t know there was such an obvious grip difference between them and Jags. It’s a learning game! Your Canberra yoke is is quite special, certainly never seen one outside of a cockpit picture before.