We (the North West Aviation Group) are exhibiting the cockpit of one of the ex-Flight One survey Twin Pins, G-AYFA, at the Newark Air Museum’s Cockpit Fest event this coming weekend.
Whilst preparing the information board I have noted on two of the pictures of the aircraft what may be a sighting device mounted on the starboard side cockpit window.
You can just about see the device in the (unfortunately low-res) cropped image below. Can anybody explain what it is?
Also, if anyone has any stories/anecdotes/pictures to share of this aircraft we’d be glad to see them.
TIA, Anon.
By: Arabella-Cox - 19th June 2012 at 22:42
Device
Now, that pic appears to show the window without the device fitted but the cut-out has been blanked off with a transparent panel.
This looks exactly like the window we have for FA.
A friend who worked for the OSFU (later than the Twin Pin era) has confirmed there was a tracking device mounted in the window of surveyor aircraft. This was for following the designated track accurately for the photo-pass.
It would be nice to obtain an original tracking scope (or whatever it is) to mount in the cockpit section for display purposes.
The Twin Pin went down well at the Newark Cockpit Fest (see thread in Historic for pics).
Thanks for posting the pic, VeeOne.
Anon.
By: VeeOne - 15th June 2012 at 18:20
I took this photo in 1980 the of sister ship g-azhj and it seems to have a similar feature on the window.
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June 13, 2012 at 10:43 pm