On Monday August 18th we were pleased to entertain our guest ‘Dagy’ from New Zealand, who is part of the team restoring Mosquito FBVI HR339 to static condition for the Ferrymead Heritage Park in Christchurch NZ.
He came with ‘gifts’ (additional parts for our project, including a fighter type control column) by way of paying for excess baggage on his flight over, he would return with his own gifts from us, (parts that we had obtained for their restorations) again utilising the excess baggage process, which we paid for, a much cheaper way of swapping parts between us!
On Tuesday 19th, Haydn and Nigel fitted other parts that we had ready into the Mosquito cockpit and she now looks much more complete.
Once the control column has been refurbished and other parts including the remaining two elements of the radar equipment are prepared, we will have another period of fitting them sometime in October, by which time she will mostly be complete.
Please checkout the captioned photos for more details.
Master carpenter ‘Dagy’ (checkout the Ferrymead Mosquito HR339 Facebook or Bluesky pages for examples of his painstaking restoration work) taking advantage of a look inside our Vulcan.
Northern hemisphere meets up with one of our Southern hemisphere colleagues, Dagy drops in to see us, on his recent tour of the old country.
Fighter style control column delivered by Dagy, in need of some refurbishment, one of our Bomber style control columns will be winging its way to Avspec’s in New Zealand in return for this rare item.
Control column base fitting.
Detailed picture of the fighter control column grip, which we will refurbish, before fitting it.
Additional parts/panels have now been fitted. These new central panels were made by Haydn and equipped with original instrumentation by Nigel.
A closer look at the newly installed central instrument panels, note the foreshortened bomb door lever (expertly weathered by our resident artist - Julie) on the left of the red marked undercarriage lever next to the F marked black flap lever, the NFXIX night fighter, did not carry any bombs, so initially the lever was removed, later versions of a two lever set were eventually fitted in later marks.
No rudder pedals fitted just yet, another feature that will be added soon. Manufactured by Haydn, the new central central ‘leg’ was fitted recently, this covers the main instrument panel support strut and features the hand operated windscreen de-icer pump, another hard to find original fitting.
A closer look at the hand operated windscreen de-icer pump in its locked position.
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