To hell with the EU.

Try the Forces Reunited website. Even if he is not listed in their membership, someone may know of him, or even have a service number close to his. Good luck!

Now wouldn’t it be nice if the UK Campign Against Aircraft would allow something like that to happen here, even with a British built aircraft. But no. What IS wrong with them?

Hi Paul. I seem to remember that I used that type of fuse on the Cushioncraft CC7 hovercraft way back in the 70’s. They were fitted in conjunction with Ward Brooke terminal blocks, or some special fuse blocks, again made by WB. Ward Brooke became Ultra, became Dowty (order may be wrong – long ago!)

If it is any further help, that CC7 I last saw in one of the hangars at the Science Museum out-station at Wroughton, Swindon. Cushioncraft was the hovercraft division of Britten-Norman, makers of the Islander aircraft.

The suggestion by Keithnewsome about RS COmponents is a line that I was also thinking along. Another might be Farnell’s (if they are still there). Belling-Lee?????

If it ever stops raining I will try the archive in the garden shed and see if I can find another information.

Good luck!

…. see the future…… Another saying springs to mind ‘ None so blind as those who don’t want to see’.

Still we must put our trust in our leaders; if only we had some leaders we might.

Maybe Mr V Clever, Civil Servant with absolutely no military experience at all, has never heard the saying ‘don’t put all your eggs in one basket’ or, if he has, isn’t capable of knowing what it means. Suppose he will get an even bigger bonus if he manages to put the entire Air Force on just one airfield. I wonder why you get cynical in this life.

Just out of curiosity – what did you have to do to them to make them unuseable? I’m sure there’ll be some of us cringe when we find out how they ended their useful lives, but it’s happened a long time ago….

From what I can remember, defuel, make the seat safe (not my job), remove some wanted parts and then (health warning!) fire axe the fuselage and wings (sob). As a man trained to look after aircraft, it was far from my favourite job, in fact it was probably one of the hardest jobs I ever did. At least I was off site when the scrap man arrived. Phew.

By the way, if you were the pilot who lost his aircrew knife in the cockpit, I found it in the control runs. It then served me well for a couple of years in gliding. Then I lost it as well.