More warbird panels

I’ve had the pleasure of making dozens of friends from around the world over the last few years who also restore or build warbird instrument panels.
Many have shared photos of their projects with me, and with their permission, I’ve created a webpage to showcase their work.
You can see them here: https://aeroantique.com/collections/warbird-instrument-panels

Anyone with a project like this is invited to share your projects among those of others on this page, just send me a private message.
Some project owners need a few (or many!) parts, and may list their ‘wants’ on the panel page in case a visitor can help them out (and I’m happy to connect you).
This is not a commercial endeavor and I make no money from it, its simply a place for folks with similar interests to share their fine work.

As of the date of this posting, there are over 20 projects on the website.
Some have very interesting histories, which are summarized on their own pages.
The goal is to showcase 100+ projects.
Included are some very interesting panels already, such as:

B-58
Vildebeest
Fairey Battle
Hadrian Glider
Bristol Beaufort
MiG 25
RB-34

I hope that you’ll enjoy them…I sure do.

Yep, saw the P-51 episode this past weekend, which was excellent. Mr Hammond is one talented and resourceful individual.
What seemed curious was that it took 5 years to restore, but the episode clearly contained segments showing Mr Hammond working on SOME aircraft (e.g., riveting, etc.) which could not have been Janie unless the filmmakers where present over the 5 year course of restoration.
His wife must be a saint (unless she was happy to have him out of the house all that time).

Trumper, I was unaware of his accident until I googled him after reading your post, so unfortunate. Let’s hope his doctors are as talented with the human body as he is with aircraft.

The fact that this is for the “upper tank”, and the capacity is 340gal, it seems more than likely that this was used in a large multi-engine aircraft.

Those Smiths gauges used in early WWII taildraggers like the Blenheim and Hampden sometimes had two index readings on the same scale, one reading normal flight and the other ‘tail on ground’. This has only ‘normal flight’. Which probably doesn’t mean much since I believe that most or all large British aircraft seem to be taildraggers anyway.

The fuel gauges on Lancasters seem to be of a more contemporary design than this generation Smiths (look at Spitfirespares website), so I’d look for examples of instrument panels from the Stirling and Manchester.

I’ve just perused my Australian cross reference of instruments used in RAAF/RAF aircraft and 6A/626 did not appear on the list. However, the Stirling and Manchester did not appear on the list. Unfortunately I don’t have the flight manuals for these two aircraft.

Good luck, and let us know what you find.