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May 6^th, 2005 at 12:07pm

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Formerly the Southampton Hall of Aviation. I'm on leave so I popped down for a look...

Lots of interesting exhibits, as a suprising amount of the UK aerospace industry was based in the South of the England.

OK, here's a starter for 10pts, beautiful (?!) single seat aeroplane

Martin Baker Mk 1 ejection seat. We're now just beginning the see the Mk 16 enter service in the Typhoon. The basic principles are still the same, and if you put the two next to each other you can see the lineage

Talking of the Typhoon, here's a Napier Sabre H24. Awesome engine

Bristols!

Token shot for Ozzy, the Spitfire cockpit, complete with Health and Safety additions on the luminous gauges. Ridiculous! Apparently whenever veterans are allowed in the cockpit they have do brief them as to the risks involved with the Radioactive gauges. More mad legislation!

Thanks for having a look, there's a few more to come...

Charlie

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Reply #1 - May 6^th, 2005 at 12:13pm

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Nice one Charlie. The silly thing is that I've never been there. I intend putting that right soon.

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Apparently whenever veterans are allowed in the cockpit they have do brief them as to the risks involved with the Radioactive gauges. More mad legislation!

As you say, ridiculous. Where will it all end I ask myself? Roll Eyes

PS. I probably still have my old luminous watch stuck in a drawer somewhere. I wore it constantly for several years when I was a kid. Am I supposed to put a warning label on that?

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Reply #2 - May 6^th, 2005 at 12:20pm

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PS. I probably still have my old luminous watch stuck in a drawer somewhere. I wore it constantly for several years when I was a kid. Am I supposed to put a warning label on that?

The service issue watch I'm wearing now has luminous numbers! It was the little radioactive stickers that bugged me!

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Reply #3 - May 6^th, 2005 at 12:22pm

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OK, here's a starter for 10pts, beautiful (?!) single seat aeroplane
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Charlie

Saunders-Roe SR.A/1 Wink

Nice stuff Charlie.

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Reply #4 - May 6^th, 2005 at 2:32pm

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Lots of interesting exhibits, as a suprising amount of the UK aerospace industry was based in the South of the England.

Miles at Shoreham ... 'nuff said....

Felix/FFDS

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Reply #5 - May 7^th, 2005 at 5:58am

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Lovely cockpit snap there Chris, and a couple of lovely Bristols (did Mrs. Charlie have Words? Grin

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I've heard about this radiation warning stuff, some veteran at I think it was Duxford was not allowed into the cockpit of the Lanc there that he used to fly because of it, his comment "Dangerous, and I suppose flying over Germany being shot at was safe? I should have joined the Pay Corps!" Roll Eyes

There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!

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Reply #6 - May 7^th, 2005 at 6:43am

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Early An-2 has UV reactive gauges... probably of the radioactive kind... panel lights are UV tubes

Russian planes: IL-76 (all standard length ones), Tu-154 and Il-62, Tu-134 and An-24RV&&&&AI flightplans and repaints can be found here

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