Recent content by Barry Bromley

What it might be is from an old Trans Canada Airlines aircraft. Maybe as part of the passenger cabin entertainment! Another guess for the aeroplane is the Lockheed Loadstar. They used these back in the 30's. Maybe the emblems are the old TCA ones.(?)

OK, I think I know what this is. It's a brass Cribbage board. Card game scorer. What the emblems are I have no idea but it is definitely a Crib board.

Surely this is a commemorative plaque for some sort of England to Canada flight. Best guess at the aeroplane is a poorly illustrated Lockheed Electra

It looks to be a standard Rotol blade from a left hand tractor unit. So a twin or multi engined aircraft. OR a late Spitfire Mk18 or 21. OR something like a Typhoon or Tempest maybe. Too many options. More research using the serial RA-973 will provide the answer.

Detail accompanying shot. Was taken 13 years ago apparently. Photo taken at the Elsham Wolds Association Memorial Room in the Anglian Water plant on heritage open day 2010. The memorial room was set up as a tribute to the airmen who lost their lives while flying from Elsham in World War...

Here's a shot of the stopwatch in its rubber holder mounted to the panel.You can see the arrangement in the panel shot. Just above the beam approach gauge.

As I am currently building a 3D virtual model of the Lancaster, I have most of the original POHs and other technical manuals.. I'll look out some shots for you. In the meantime here's a description of one of these watches that was for sale recently - an Air Ministry 6B/ 221 Stopwatch that fits...

The fact remains though that the Lanc has a clip on the upper left of the main panel. The cockpit guide says it is for the "Pilot's stopwatch".

Nobody said it was the pilot's job to keep time. However, a stopwatch was used by the pilot, otherwise why the clip/socket for one? If the bomb aimer or navigator called out, oh I don't know, " 90 seconds to target" does the pilot start " one battleship, two battleships..." I doubt it. He would...

All marks of Spitfire carried clocks. Standard Smiths or Jaeger 8-day or later 24 hour chronometers. The 8-day had additional time of trip hands that could be set. The 24 hour clock also had this. The Lancaster also carried a socket for the pilot's own stop watch so that bombing runs could be...

Can't be an access panel, it's rivetted around the flange. I'm still sticking with a fairing. It's a reasonably large one compared to the blue plastic bucket in the pic. If that's shell damage then it is definitely exterior and more than likely off a nacelle. One ting though, I can't see how the...

My guess is that it is the rear part (looks broken) of a fairing. It appears to be painted black (brush painted) which would place it somewhere on the exterior below the camouflage line and probably off a nacelle. Without the year or version, virtually impossible to identify accurately. There...

Don't forget timing. The Hurricane was designed and accepted before the Spitfire and was at war with the BEF in France when the first Spitfires with two-blade props were just entering service to join it. The Hurricane, although utilising bi-plane build techniques was immensely strong and a very...

To my certain knowlege, the dinghy release pull is situated on the starboard rear fuselage as arrowed in the shot. Not seen the lower first aid pull before, presumably a late Lanc. (?)

Looks like a brand new aircraft. So maybe some kind of delivery/protection cover for the oleos? Like a pitot cover.