Moggy
Thanks for the cockpit pic, was going to look for one today.
Hard to work out if its a single seater or the AEW version or even if its a Royal Navy aircraft. Could you clarify a little as to what the piccy is from. – answered before i finished – had to do the skool run !!!
Im only guessing its Skyraider not offering any answers, Ive come to this by a process of elimination that can be and will 100% flawed – more than happy to admit to that.
1. FAA tag – Naval Aircraft
2. HMS Eagle – Carrier based
3. Instrument could be manufactured 1956 –
4. See what was aboard HMS Eagle in 1956 and after, gives us Wyven, Skyraider, Sea Hawk, Sea Venom. Other aircraft types (bar cross decking and visits) where not afloat until 1959.
5. There are a few Sea Hawk and Sea Venoms floating about and no one has owned up to having one fitted to their aircraft.
6. Leaves Wyvern and Skyraider.
7. The 6A/NIV is the intriguing part. Thats why I come to the Skyraider conclusion. Did the Skyraider have a 26 vocab section or more likely a 126 vocab section…I cant seem to find one for the aircraft in my notes.
If it didnt have a vocab section, then perhaps anything fitted to it was NIV – other than parts that cross-refered to other aircraft.
One other option is that it was some kind of test and evaluation kit perhaps for Wyvern but to me its to chunky for that.
We will probably find out the parts for something very different…. onboard crane!!
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