TCA wooden cockpit trainer

[tristar 500]

As part of the hangar project at Brooklands Museum (www.brooklandsmuseum.com (http://www.brooklandsmuseum.com)) we are starting to renovate a wooden cockpit trainer that was produced for TCA when they bought their 23 aircraft.


We are wondering about it`s history, we think it may have been at East Fortune at some point also the science museum is also a possibility.


Has anybody any knowledge of it between 1960 & 2010?

[oftenflylo]

When we visited Brooklands from school (& met Barnes Wallis)about 1960. There were wooden noses like that for Vanguard & VC-10 but they had no external colours

[Jhieminga]

I took these photos at East Fortune in April 2004:
https://c3.staticflickr.com/8/7560/30153147866_b020417da3_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/MWwLkL)
VC9_trainer1 (https://flic.kr/p/MWwLkL) by Jelle Hieminga (https://www.flickr.com/photos/102686263@N02/), on Flickr
https://c2.staticflickr.com/9/8132/30187501745_4534ef9958_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/MZyQy2)
VC9_trainer2 (https://flic.kr/p/MZyQy2) by Jelle Hieminga (https://www.flickr.com/photos/102686263@N02/), on Flickr
https://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8665/30153147756_fa9388fce8_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/MWwLiS)
VC9_trainer3 (https://flic.kr/p/MWwLiS) by Jelle Hieminga (https://www.flickr.com/photos/102686263@N02/), on Flickr

Unfortunately the camera I was using then does not allow me to decipher the sign that is mounted on it on the third photo.

[tristar 500]

Thanks very much for the replies.
I did realise I had made an error when I forgot to identify it as a Vanguard cockpit.
It looks in a very sorry state at the moment, but hopefully we will be able to rector it to something a bit better.

[Amos Keeto]

I definately remember seeing this in the Science Museum in South Kensington in the '60s or '70s.