Chairs for sale
January 2005
Work in Progress
October 2004
Chairs from old aircraft, re-worked for the cyberpunk house
This is one I'm working on at present.
And in the best traditions of Blue Peter, here's one I made earlier.
Scrap chair from scrap aircraft. Not sure what; almost certainly British, probably 1960's, I've been told it was the flight engineer's seat from a Belfast (I'd love to find out).
Acquired on a scrap shopping trip last year.
October 2004
The finished chair will be roughly polished, then waxed
I'll upholster the seat base and the headrest, but leave most of the back in bare metal.
January 2005
More raw materials!
Originally the co-Pilots seat from Westland Wessex HU-5 helicopter, XT761.
This aircraft was photographed on Ascension Island in 1983. It later spent many years as an instructional airframe at HMS Sultan, then at the Fleetlands museum until its closure in 2001. There's a cockpit photo of a similar aircraft at airliners.net.
Martin Baker Mk 4B
The seat was struck off charge at RAF Marham in 1984, and is possibly the navigator's seat from a Canberra PR9, but I'm not yet sure. It's an unusual ejector seat, as it has fittings for hinged armrests. Advice welcome!
Web resources about ejector seats can be found at Kevin Coyne's Ejection Site, which also has an illustration of the firing sequence, and a technical history of the Martin Baker company's seats. I also have a near-complete Martin Baker Mk H7 from a Phantom in my collection, along with chunks of a Mk3
