stcaamekid: Sea Vixen FAW2 cockpit - fuselage integration; the closer you get the more other worldly these masterpieces become.
stcaamekid: Vampire FBVI driver's seat - no surplus space going on here, it looks more like strapping it onto your back than getting in.
stcaamekid: 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.
stcaamekid: Vampire FBVI rudder detail
stcaamekid: De Havilland Vampire FBVI twin tail detail.
stcaamekid: DH Vampire FBVI Nose landing gear forward door inner skin detail.
stcaamekid: DHC Chipmunk T.10 rear fuselage fillet fairing into the empennage. Sheet metal heaven.
stcaamekid: De Havilland Comet flightdeck
stcaamekid: 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
stcaamekid: De Havilland Canada Chipmunk T.10 front office - the business end.
stcaamekid: De Havilland Chipmunk T.10 empennage
stcaamekid: De Havilland Comet racer replica - cockpit and suitably minimalist controls for this aerial racing aircraft.
stcaamekid: De Havilland Comet racer curvature 1
stcaamekid: Comet racer curvature II
stcaamekid: Comet racer curvature III
stcaamekid: De Havilland heaven - Comet racer replica and Tiger Moth Vertical tailplane.
stcaamekid: Tiger Moth wing strut lower attachment - looking more like a yacht than and aeroplane.
stcaamekid: Tiger Moth
stcaamekid: De Havilland Mosquito port engine exhaust stub bank.
stcaamekid: De Havilland Sea Vixen FAW2 - radar scanner dish cast attachment bracket.
stcaamekid: Sea Vixen FAW2 nose radome hinge bracket
stcaamekid: Sea Vixen FAW2 windscreen detail
stcaamekid: Lt Fletcher's Sea Vixen FAW2
stcaamekid: De Havilland Vampire T11 canopy hinge bracket
stcaamekid: De Havilland Vampire T11 cockpit
stcaamekid: Vampire T11 cockpit - ejection seats
stcaamekid: Sea Venom FAW22 cockpit
stcaamekid: Sea Venom FAW22 cockpit instrumentation
stcaamekid: Sea Venom FAW22 horizontal tailplane - built in 1957 at the DH Chester factory, now the Airbus wing manufacturing plant, Broughton.
stcaamekid: Swiss Air Force Vampire FB.VI