V-Bomber cockpits go to auction

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V-Bomber cockpits go to auction

#1 Post by CharlieOneSix » Mon Feb 01, 2021 12:16 pm

Hansons Auctioneers will be selling V-Bomber cockpits on 9th March.
Details here: V-Bomber cockpits for auction.
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#2 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon Feb 01, 2021 1:00 pm

It says partly restored. You could have fooled me.

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#3 Post by Ex-Ascot » Mon Feb 01, 2021 3:07 pm

I cannot imagine any takers.
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#4 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon Feb 01, 2021 3:14 pm

I know someone who is interested but cost and transport would rule her out.

But there are people who would. There is someone building a GR1 cockpit.

That Victor on the left was never in RAF use and only served with RAE. It was being converted to a tanker but they never finished.

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#5 Post by G-CPTN » Mon Feb 01, 2021 4:43 pm

A poignant yet somewhat sad account, lacking the enthusiasm that returned XH558 to flight and allowed many (including my son) to experience the might of the V bombers - something that we were lucky (?) to have experienced.
As I said to my son at Farnborough in 2008 - "That's what I'm talking about!"

Somehow a mere cockpit section like those for sale doesn't have the same effect - though the Comet sections at DH Hatfield do convey the feeling of the aircraft - I suppose it's how they are presented. I know that my grandchildren enjoy sitting in the seat of a DH110 (we have visited several times as they live nearby).

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