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The guy who supplied most of the ex-Ministry Of Defence stuff is a friend of mine called Mike Shaw. He had, until very recently, quite a few of those joysticks but sadly there are none left. Mike started his career on The Guns Of Navarone and only recently retired last year. He's sold off most of his remaining stock of bits and bobs and other 2001 collectors have cleaned him out of anything noteworthy. The unit that Bowman presses to activate the explosive bolts of the one man space pod is actually a fitting from an ejector seat where you clip on the oxygen hose and consists of three spring load spherical valves. Again Mike had loads now sadly all gone. Basically he used to break and salvage aircraft.
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