Firestreak bits needed

[jimgriff]

Can anyone help with a couple of DH Firestreak fins and a couple of steering vanes for same please for a restoration project.
It would also be fab if someone had a whole or had a template for the glass facetted nosecone?
Can buy or swap for parachutes.
Thanks in advance.

[ZH875]

There may still be a nosecone at Headley Court, it was mounted with a Lightning on the inside. That was about 1997.

Although they may have had a clearout since then......

[Corsairoz]

If you are in Wild West Wales, there is a perfectly preserved one not far from you at Cosford ....including the internals.

We have one at Solent Sky in Southampton on our Sea Vixen, (no, sorry, you cannot have it := ) but no internal gubbins.

Corsairoz

Here's a pic of the nose section I took last year at Cosford:

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u249/corsairoz/IMG_1399.jpg

[jimgriff]

Thanks for that and yes a trip to Cosford is on the cards soon. Is that a display nosecone to display the internals ? Pictures I've seen show a darkened glass nose - not clear.

[Corsairoz]

I am no expert, but I believe that picture is pretty much ready for action. Ours at Solent Sky is the same. I do know that the prism is not glass but is made of Arsenic Trisulfide, which is near transparent to infrared (pretty important when designing a heat seeker nose).

Take a look at this pic elsewhere on PPRUNE...

http://i38.tinypic.com/jfi4i8.jpg

Although many pictures show the dark red plastic ground cover used to protect the prism, when loaded and ready to go, it's as my picture above.

I think the same is true of its successor, the Red Top...see below...(again at Cosford)

but I am no expert, as I said.

We have a Red Top on the other wing of our Sea Vixen (sorry, you cannot have that either :) )

Corsairoz

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u249/corsairoz/IMG_1446.jpg