Thanks for all the suggestions.

I dont know how far we can go with this but as Lanc35 suggests I will make enquiries about what we can do with wifi. There would not be a problem with misuse as we dont even have a broadband connection to the museum (we live at the virtual end of the earth!).

Thats another interesting shot! We have an entire tropical golden sands beach at our airport museum that came out of an Avon that arrived with the cockpit!

I hope I can get things moving and have some more photos of 801 on display.

Air can be a problem if there is a pressure vessel in the mix, less so depending upon the volume of air involved. Nonetheless we will be using oil.

Thanks very much for all the information!

John

Thanks very much Nad, that certainly sounds like our cockpit and I am pleased to have it confirmed safe especially as some idiot has been telling our people otherwise.

Now I just need to get to that canopy ram which from peering in the rear would seem to be on the port side behind this removable panel.

So the Hunter came from Oman? Maybe the Avon engine we have came from there too as it had several buckets of golden desert sand inside it!

Thanks to everyone for their contributions.

Tony, I will have a look at the harness attachment and trace my way back to the BTU and see what I can see without endangering my fingers or any other vital body parts.

It would be really good if a seat expert were to choose to holiday in NZ’s beautiful South Island and could take a look in.

Being the sort of museum we are, where we let people actually touch and even get into some aircraft we are somewhat cursed with ‘experts’ of dubious credibility who delight in telling us retired farmers et al that something is dangerous. In fact I am waiting for the day someone tells me the fuses are still in some of the wooden munitions our aircraft carry!

This cockpit is very much complete with not much missing at all but unfortunately it has been through a period of extreme damp leaving everything just a bit shabby.

We do not have a canopy collar but we do have a red stay which locks in place. We would like to get the lifting mechanistm working enough that we can open and close without too much huffing and puffing. There is a reservoir behind the bulkhead but I was a bit reluctant to start messing around behind the seats until I knew what to be aware of.

The trolley is a challenge as the cockpit is sitting almost on the floor, it is too ‘fat’ for our forklift and a crane would have to be hired. I would like to build the trolley in place without the wheels then jack up each end and slip the wheels on. We only need clearance for moving it around the hangar and maybe the hard standing. I thought suitable arms on the trolley and fabric strops passed under and fixed to the arms.

mjr, I will look for those nitrogen bottles and the emergency handle.

OneEight Bit, I will look around for suspicious materials in that area.

Meanwhile, today we will be moving the cockpit away from the wall and I will check some of those items.