Westland Whirlwind

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Westland Whirlwind production line
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it appears that you're making a cockpit for aircraft up to and including P6983 which including the 2 prototypes and the 18 true production aircraft that followed makes a total of 20 early machines with the unmolested instrument layouts…Here's the later type cockpit panel layout for aircraft P6984 and the subsequent 93 production aircraft…
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The dismantling of P7048 on the Westland site during 1951, you can see the radio hatch in the starboard side also the supporting frame work for the nose cannons, the full length fowler flap system and the pilots access ladder on the port side.
 
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