It is true the facts were not 100 % accurate, but the programme showed the hard life and heroisme of the BoB fighterpilots very well in my opinion. I think this was the main goal of this BBC programme. I loved it very much. It didn’t bother me Colin hadn’t a Mae West (pattern) around his neck but a modern MK25 LSJ.

Thanks for your compliments Fouga23, ian and Peter !

Rijnko

Re: Tony
I’ll send a PM about the column parts;Thanks !

Re: Cees
As I stated at the thread ” Stirling panel ? ” I’ll post a picture of the Stirling panel when it is completed in the next weeks. I herewith post a somewhat older picture which was published in the magazine of the KNVOL this year.
You can see a part of the unfinished Stirling panel on the leftside.
By the way your cockpit section of the Halifax looks great already!

Re: Twinotter23
I’ll think about that.

Rijnko

Spitfire MkII panel

Here a picture of my Spitfire Mk II b instrumentpanel/cockpitsection.
I’m still working on the control column. Is quite a job to make the yoke.
Rijnko

Had a closer look at the Stirling project- and the Hindenburg Stirling-instrument panels.
Great panels ! Mine is somewhat different. It is like the one on page 153 in the book Pictorial History of the RAF, Volume two 1939-1945 by John W.R.Taylor & Philip J.R.Moyes.

Rijnko

Stirling panel

Visited the Aviation forum again after a long time and found this thread.
I am the one who bought this panel on Ebay. I have found more numbers on it: SU 6758 and 1295660. I don’t think it is the hatch on Peter’s drawing. It is obviously a part of a two-door hatch on the outside, but where on the plane ?
Perhaps Cees can tell that as he recognised the panel from the similar one from BK 620 which he has in storage ?
The panel is in quite a good shape and I enjoy it very much. It has a nice place next to my Stirling replica instrument panel as a real memorial of the great plane the Stirling was and its part in the liberation of our country.

Rijnko