Hello, could anyone out there identify this instrument panel. When I acquired it I was told it was a Blackburn Beverley, however on bringing it home and looking through my Beverley pilots notes I could not see any diagrams for it. The panel is approx 28 inches high and 30 inches across. There are 20 dolls eyes, inscribed over them is “Overheat warning” each dolls eye presents either a Rudder, Aleron or Elevator. It appears to have 2 Rudders (Set1 and Set2). Service daes on the rear of the panel indicate services between 1960 and 1966. Inscribed in silver ink pen is the following ” 802549K2 155 24 SER T8 2/T. Any idea’s as to its identity would be gratefully recieved, I’m still hoping for a Beverley!
Many Thanks.
By: robmac - 25th November 2006 at 03:01
Another guess by looking at it, but how about a Viscount?
By: FLY.BUY - 24th November 2006 at 22:53
JJ and Pogno, sorry for the late reply and thanks for the guesses. Britania certainly had black cockpit interior panels but the VC10 and Belfast were a green to grey colour. Anyhow I’m still open to guesses should anyone else know?
By: pogno - 12th November 2006 at 21:31
Just a guess but could this be a ant-ice panel from a Belfast of Britannia or even a VC10 or something.
Thought being that the one plenum indication is for a common hot air duct fed by bleed air from all the engines, this provides hot air to the flying control icing protection. The control surfaces are physically split to provide redundancy, which accounts for the duplication, VC10 certainly had this feature, not so sure about the others though.
By: contrailjj - 12th November 2006 at 20:03
well, I’m no expert, but my thoughts on this one are as follows…
I think we’re looking at a flight engineer’s position of a single engined type (only one space for a Plenum Chamber Temperature gauge). I’d hazard a guess to say that the Set 1/Set 2 are a ‘redundant’ warning system and there only appears to be one rudder (cover either half – odds or evens – of the ‘dolls eyes’ and you have a complete set of indicators.)
Perhaps a Gannet or something like that.
JJ
By: FLY.BUY - 12th November 2006 at 19:09
Sorry if you have seen this thread before, I just re circulated it to see if anyone can identify it.
Thanks again! Fly.Buy
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