Hawker Hunter dual seat...

[John Hill]

Our small town aviation museum has 'scored' the front section  of a Hawker Hunter jet trainer,  it is not in the best of conditions.


Here are a few pictures of what we have and as you can see it is a little rough around the edges, apart from smelling of damp, apparently either someone left the lid up in a rain storm or water leaked in over a period of time but everything smells like those old English motor cars we used to love, only worse.



Not too bad from the outside:-

IMGP9370 by aardvark_akubra, on Flickr

...but inside..

IMGP9377 by aardvark_akubra, on Flickr

...again..

IMGP9376 by aardvark_akubra, on Flickr

We have a few ideas for drying it out but restoration to a standard we would like to display is probably out of the question.  I have been telling the other museum society members that we should display it in a darkened environment with careful lighting and I am hoping that UV, or something, would make the instrument markings 'come alive'.  I am not sure I have convinced anyone yet.

Anyone got any ideas (that I can take to the next meeting and pretend they were mine   )?
John

[Chazz]

The way I see it, the most cost effective way to fix 'er up is to let someone else 'score it' off you! 

How about suspending it from above? 

Actually if it were refurbed as a static, visual display it should not be too difficult to fix up.

When ever we had to 'de-oderize' the interior of a car\truck, we'ed strip it down and use the pressure washer with TSP (tri-sodium phosphate) which always worked well for us.

Good luck with your find,
Chazz