Classic British Flight Sim

I hope that your good lady doesn't make a habit of this. Once the swimming is done, you'll have to put the kettle on AGAIN!
I agree, Mrs PeteP MUST be crazy, there was a bloke talking live from Dover, re trucks coping with new export paperwork; the steam from his mouth would put your kettle to shame.

Sadly, Mike, she does. She swims in the sea up to 5 times a week all year round. One of my former colleagues at Angel Radio regularly referred to her on air as 'The Madwoman'. He got no arguments from me - or her for that matter.

Pete

Pete, are you just a bit worried that she prefers the freezing sea to breakfast with you?

Not at all, Mike, it gives me a couple of hours of peace and quiet in the morning to read the papers and do the crossword.
Pete

They're only easy if you know them of course. I've trawled through so many websites, without success, that my brain now feels like the first scrambled picture. I assume it's the cockpit?

Ah, I did put a smiley at the end of the sentence to show I was attempting to be humorous, Den, but it obviously didn't come across. It was Mike's very generous clue that put me on the right track - it would have taken me much longer without it.
Pete

511Flyer wrote: ↑

01 Jan 2021, 14:58

They're only easy if you know them of course. I've trawled through so many websites, without success, that my brain now feels like the first scrambled picture. I assume it's the cockpit?

Hi Den,
The extracts which I posted look worse than I expected, as the original was a few thousand pixels wide; must have been low resolution to start with.
A is the port side of the engine, including exhaust.
B is the observer/whatever sitting behind a solid wall of fuselage. The diagonal stripe and large number tell you what Service it belongs to.
C is the actual pilot, sitting high.
As Pete says, the original clue given will help when you're near the mark.

I was thinking Fleet Air Arm, but can't find anything where the pilot is sitting so far forward.

Then I thought Grumman.

Then I thought .....................

This is how they fit together, Gentlemen:

Aha, now you don't see it!

Here it is, in all its entirety!
The Blackburn Blackburn:


In order of appearance:
1st January
Keith (Dev One) at 16:45
PeteP 18:20
2nd January
AllanL at 07:30
Gentlemen that you are, please kindly share your virtual badge:

There were other nibbles at the Blackburn stable, but the "echo" clue didn't work for everyone.
Maybe my interest in cryptic crosswords made the clue too cryptic?