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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

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

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?

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?

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!

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



Charlie

Saunders-Roe SR.A/1

Nice stuff Charlie.

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....

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

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