CockpitFest 2022 is here!
This weekend, Newark Air Museum hosts CockpitFest 2022.
I shall be giving a live demo of the EE Lightning radio system, where the public can wear a headset to hear the sounds, tune the radio in, see the gears whirr and clunk, and generally get to see close-up, hands-on, inside and out, how a part of a supersonic cold war jet worded.
NAM page: http://www.newarkairmuseum.org/Cockpit-Fest_2022
My pages: https://scottbouch.com/cockpitfest.html
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Cockpitfest North was a few weeks ago. Couldnt get to it ether.
My display this year was a functioning VHF/UHF radio as fitted to the Lightnings. People could try on headsets, talk to each other and get a feel for the equipment of the Lightning. My take on it is that all you generally get to see in a museum is the paint of the outside of an aircraft, whereas the complexity and artwork of some of the systems is sometimes overlooked. I allowed people to re-tune the radio using a cockpit control unit, they could see the gears whirring setting the different frequencies.
It was a nice weekend, good to speak with so many people, and the icing on the cake; we won the "Cockpiteers" award with this interactive demonstration!
Shackleton from Coventry:
Lightning F6 Rig of the Swinn family.
One of the visitors... also had the Red Arrows over very low on the Friday.
Museum resident cockpits:
Saturday night hog roast and beer:
Plenty of aeroboot sellers too...
scottbouch.com
Scott.... I congratulate....you are my Scotty. Do you remember Scotty from the Enterprise...that's you for me.
And James T. Kirk says....Scotty we need more Warp !!!