Authentic corrosion and labelled PORT STBD and ARMING PLUG.

Part number 1/B2B-81-50, inspection stamp GAF.

Could this be for the Wessex HAS1? Has anyone got a picture of where it fits?

I’m guessing this may have been for the flotation bags, but not sure.

:)Thanks John, suspected that.

So I am looking for a picture of the crate in the back?

Yes: it was part of the panel over the looker’s plot above the fresnel lens display of the radar

I’ve flown both US and European birds and, yes, the rotors do turn in opposite direction; I once saw a Dutch navy Lynx pilot take off in a Huey and spin twice before catching it…as he’d pulled pitch and instinctively applied power pedal for the Lynx.

Err: no! The Lynx is a Westland (now AgustaWestland) design and has the main rotor turning the same way as the Huey. It’s only the Frogs and Ruskies that have their designs going t’other way :rolleyes:

I find that ‘not thinking’ about the pedal input to be the best way of dealing with changing from (for instance) an A109 to a Squirrel. Just watch the nose and keep it straight as you pull power 😀

With 14k hours on turbines and <1k on pistons, there’s not that much difference once you just fly the things. Nr control on older pistons was always fun, the Hiller 12E was touchy, the Whirlwind HAS7 (S55 with an Alvis Leonides radial) was awesome for a (just) 20 year old Midshipman 😎

Lots of fond memories of the Whirlwind, though: climbing up the side of the monster, hearing each piston catch as the radial chuffed into life, hovering over the water being taught how to winch & trying valiantly to keep the Nr somewhere within the green range, that enormous, tall cyclic control to give enough leverage in the event of reverting to manual control, the glasshouse view out through about 6 panes of perspex joined by inches thick struts, the joy of sliding the door/window open and flying with your arm out in the breeze. Happy days 😀

And Duxford have one of the actual airframes that I flew: that makes me feel….. older?

I did not know that Intruders ever operated off the Ark! How did the A-6 stack up to the Buc?

And it was the noisiest aircraft I ever heard on the cat!

FWIW, Eagle’s hull and fitout (984, etc) were far, far better than the Ark. Feedwater problems, rusting hull inlets, accommodation standards on Ark were woeful compared to Eagle 🙁

Sorrento Sunset 😎

i take it that is etched glass , but how is it done ?? and what is the layout ??

Here’s a wide shot: the etched glass is reflecting the sunset

Going back in time: Gannet AEW3 on Ark in Barcelona, sunrise scan of an old 35mm slide or two