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Old 5th May 2023, 08:19
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bean
 
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Originally Posted by Wycombe
It is but not quite. In Austria, we stripped away the false "walls" that had been put up inside the fuselage (including the cockpit) by MacDonalds and found that there is some framework (that would have been behind the instrument panel) still in place.

We have, in the last few days, acquired a throttle quadrant, and some other instrument panel "bits" which will go towards hopefully being able to at least partially rebuild the cockpit in the longer term.
Yes, I saw Captain Bennison playing with the quadrant on the Blackbushe Heritage group link to a BBC report.
Do you know for which Airline(s) he flew Vikings?
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