Warmtoast,
What lovely photos of one of the most important of military aircraft of the 20th century ! The intact specimen shows the cockpit heating arrangement which would make today's 'Elf'n Pastry' have a severe attack of the vapours.
The exhaust pipe is enclosed in a sort of sheet steel "muff" or sleeve, ram air is driven through the narrow gap, warmed and piped into the cockpit. The danger is obvious. IIRC, in the AT-6A, the pipe and sleeve were much longer, so that the instructor in the back seat got the benefit (or the CO, whichever way you look at it) .....D.
On the floor of the cockpit was an open pipe end with a closing flap you fiddled round with your toe. ....D.
jaganpvs,
Another thought, why does FE965 have such big airframe numbers ? (wild guess: they'd been taken from the IAF Hurricane and VV OTUs, where the ground crews would more easily see them when they were coming back into the line (in which case, what is the '0' under the rear cockpit for ?) ....D.
hempy,
What a feast you've laid before me ! Thanks - I'm really going to enjoy this ! ....D. (but Ars Longa, vita brevissimus)
Cheers, everyone. Danny.