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