The English Electric Dalgety, the 'Just in case' project. - DONE!

[PR19_Kit]

They were from a Mach2 Atlantic, Kit.

Ah right, I'd forgotten the Atlantic used Tynes too, thanks.

[Wardukw]

Ahhh yes all very true but with mine being a B-57 the pilots sit behind each other not side by side and I'm working on the principle that there's plenty of room 

The only Canberra which has side by side crew are the T4s, and they wish they WEREN'T side by side as there's no room in there at all!

Normally the pilot sits up front, but off to port a bit, and the radio-operator sits behind him, with the nav-bomb aimer on his right. He has to wriggle past the pilot to lie on the bomb aiming couch to earn his combat pay. For the B(I)8 the crew's in the same positions as the earlier types, but it just looks as if the pilot's offset to port. He's actually in exactly the same position as he is in the B2/6.

In the PR9s, the nav sits right in he nose, under a frangible hatch so his bang seat can get him clear, but on the other PR variants, the 3 and 7, the nose is empty of crew, they're behind the pilot as in the bombers.

Maybe for a whiffed B-57 you could move the nose gear forward of the front cockpit bulkhead, as it has no crew members, bomb aiming or otherwise, in that space.

By the sound of that Kit space is something there was a very small amount of and it sounds even more like my 6'2 frame would not fit in one  with any amount of comfort 

What I'm thinking is basically exactly what you suggested..forward of the front cockpit bulkhead and have the nose gear fold forward instead of backwards 🤔.
I had also completely forgot the shape of the 57's nose ..whish is quite alot more pointed than the English Canberra so something will have to done to give me more room ..the fun part will be the extension as all my stash jet birds have either sharp or very sharp noses but I'm thinking .

I used a piece of dowel when I constructed my Maritime Recce turbo-prop version of the Canberra.

Brian mate 👌 👍 👏 🙌 💙
That's a beautiful looking model and super sleak ..love it 😀 😀

[PR19_Kit]

Space in a Canberra was at a premium, yes.

Here's a couple of pics I took at the Avro Heritage Museum a short while ago.



The visible entrance hatch is the only way in and out normally, and the next pic is taken through the hatch and looking up to the left, toward that one window in the fuselage side.



That's the Nav/Bomb aimer's seat you're looking at and the radio operator's seat is just visible to its right. A tad cramped I'd say......