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Sea Vixen FAW2 cockpit - fuselage integration; the closer you get the more other worldly these masterpieces become.
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Vampire FBVI driver's seat - no surplus space going on here, it looks more like strapping it onto your back than getting in.
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De Havilland Vampite FBVI engine access doors - reminiscent of the elephant ears on the Lightning twin seaters when open, and giving these little sports cars the look of an insect about to take flight.
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Vampire FBVI rudder detail
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De Havilland Vampire FBVI twin tail detail.
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DH Vampire FBVI Nose landing gear forward door inner skin detail.
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DHC Chipmunk T.10 rear fuselage fillet fairing into the empennage. Sheet metal heaven.
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De Havilland Comet flightdeck
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De Havilland Canada Chipmunk T.10 rear cockpit - where flying became reality for me - as an ATC cadet in 2474 Sqn with 10 AEF out of Woodvale, and closer to home at Valley during the mid 1980s
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De Havilland Canada Chipmunk T.10 front office - the business end.
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De Havilland Chipmunk T.10 empennage
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De Havilland Comet racer replica - cockpit and suitably minimalist controls for this aerial racing aircraft.
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De Havilland Comet racer curvature 1
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Comet racer curvature II
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Comet racer curvature III
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De Havilland heaven - Comet racer replica and Tiger Moth Vertical tailplane.
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Tiger Moth wing strut lower attachment - looking more like a yacht than and aeroplane.
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Tiger Moth
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De Havilland Mosquito port engine exhaust stub bank.
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De Havilland Sea Vixen FAW2 - radar scanner dish cast attachment bracket.
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Sea Vixen FAW2 nose radome hinge bracket
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Sea Vixen FAW2 windscreen detail
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Lt Fletcher's Sea Vixen FAW2
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De Havilland Vampire T11 canopy hinge bracket
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De Havilland Vampire T11 cockpit
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Vampire T11 cockpit - ejection seats
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Sea Venom FAW22 cockpit
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Sea Venom FAW22 cockpit instrumentation
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Sea Venom FAW22 horizontal tailplane - built in 1957 at the DH Chester factory, now the Airbus wing manufacturing plant, Broughton.
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Swiss Air Force Vampire FB.VI