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Re: Dutch Stirling cockpit project

Posted by TonyD on Mon Jul 08, 2002 06:47:53 PM

In reply top Dutch Stirling cockpit project posted by Cees on Mon Jul 08, 2002 02:59:40 AM

Hi Cees....I know I owe you an email off board....it is coming (yeah yeah I hear you say so is Christmas!!!)

Cockpits certainly are big things at the moment. It would be great to see one from the Netherlands or Europe in general make it to the CockpitFest at Newark. When I did Aerojumbles the other side of the table, chaps & chapesses (at least one luvly lady was doing a Lanc) would come up with their pilots notes pictures looking for instruments. As you say, the majority were Spitfires with the odd Lanc and Hurricane thrown in. A few interesting ones include the prize winning Lysander cockpit panel, Halifax panel, Gladiator and a B&P Defiant. All great to see.
A report on the Newark cockpitfest will be in the Sept issue of Flypast (out in early August).

regards

TonyD

: Hi all,
:
: Last saturday I was shown around the Stirling cockpit proj
: ect by Peter van Gelderen. Over a period of some years he
: has made a full size cockpitsection using a lot of origina
: l parts and instruments. It is really breathtaking to be a
: ble to see where the brave airmen sat at night.
:
: Here is the website:
:
: www.stirling.box.nl/home.htm
:
: I can tell you that when I got home my hands itched to wor
: k on my own Halifax project. At the moment the following p
: rojects have/are taking place:
:
: The abovementioned Stirling cockpit, my own Halifax cockpi
: t, there is a half Lancaster cockpit, another Lancaster co
: ckpit project. This one will be built according to full AV
: RO specifications and will be a masterpiece when completed
: . Apart from that there is also a Spitfire cockpit mounted
: on a trailer so that it can be taken to airshows. And und
: oubtedly there must be many other projects going on judgin
: g by the number of people nosing in their Pilot's Notes du
: ring aerojumbles (mostly Spitfires).
:
: Cees

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