On Tuesday, 24 February 2015 08:18:16 UTC, Paul Parry wrote: > > I can feel this wandering off Topic slight.. Again.. LOL >
It doesn't matter in this case. Believe me :) > What a wonderful use for a 5C/3023. I did mention earlier that I had a bit > of a fondness for Vintage aircraft, I had a complete Vampire T11 in my > possession a few years ago XD515 (long story) not the smallest things to > house so I donated it to RAF Cosford where it resides in the sheds at the > back awaiting re-assembly. > Not come across the 'Resin' on the lighting panel, but I know a lot of > planes of the era had UV lighting in the cockpit that illuminated all the > dials as they had radium? paint inside that glowed very nicely under UV. It > could possibly be used to switch on the UV lamps? It was certainly the case > in my T11. > I've looked at some photos of XD515 - http://flickrhivemind.net/Tags/xd515 - it was really in poor shape - do you think that it'll ever fly again or will it be a static display? A major task if ever there was one. Top marks for stopping it rotting completely - certainly a long-term project ! > Is that your Firefly? > Regrettably (or maybe, "thankfully") not - it was from another forum (Britmodeller) where we were discussing the true nature of "RESIN" - lot of argument about it as it was classified and seems to have changed its nature during its life. It was definitely IFF - not cockpit - the real question was was it just very dim/near-IR red lights or true IR - no-one seems to know for sure - some speculation too that is relied on other aircraft having a "Tabby" system on board... Cheers Nick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/241170b1-a18c-450e-a228-9773e334b07b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
