Any ideas what these gauges may be?

There is a cracking pic of the FEs desk on the VC10nderness site here:
Can anyone identify which are the engine vibration gauges?
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I’ve got my own set of hi rez VC-10 panel pics, but darned if I can find them at the mo!
I think it might be the strip meters, in the bottom right of this pic, http://www.flickr.com/photos/27914776@N08/2662466536/sizes/l/
This area seems covered over on the pic you linked to.

I can find out next time they drag a 10 out here sometime, but I would say a pointless excercise as none of the guages look like yours

Looks like early BAC 1-11 to me. Pretty sure not related to military Jetstream at all, although im not an eggspurt on Jetstream…

Sangamo Weston manufactured
The S149- is the part number, whilst the BB… is the serial number.

some of the vibration guages on the 1-11 are “strip” gauges

The astazou jetstream marks that i am aware of are…
J1
J2
J200
J201…T1
J201…T2

When doing development flying anyway you probably would not remove the temp gauges 🙂
Were they just hole fillers ?

The man who sold it referred to the panel as from a Jetstream 21 perhaps a term used for a development aircraft, but I am drawn to the probability that it is from Culdrose 562/XX483 as put forward by Pagen01.

My other rationale behind these gauges not being a development mod is the thought, that if during development vibration needed to be monitored closely, then it would probably have been done by a Flight Test Engineer sat ‘down the back’ at a console probably looking at all sorts of engine parameters.

There is a cracking pic of the FEs desk on the VC10nderness site here:

http://www.vc10.net/Photos/XV109.html

Can anyone identify which are the engine vibration gauges?

Many thanks to all who have expended thinking power on this wee poser so far – the quest continues:confused:

I am not convinced either,unless it was from a development a/c perhaps
T 2 panel pic

I’m pretty sure that VC-10s have engine vibration guages on the engineers panel.

Your pictured guages appear to be where the engine temp guages are normally positioned

Unfortunately the screws are captive to the panel, tightening a collar arrangement at the back which clamps the gauge in place, so that explains the paint being a good match.

I am still unconvinced about Astazou engines needing vibration gauges. I even had a look at Dauphin Helicopter cockpit images out there and haven’t seen such gauges (yet?). I imagine rotary would be more reliant on constant vib monitoring so I am still scratching my head!

The screws look to be fairly well painted in…

Vibration gauge, it is important if your about to have an impending engine failure if you don’t shut it down!

That was my initial thought but I can’t see why the amplitude of an engines vibration signature would be of any use to a pilot?

On RB199 engines there is a system that monitors engine vibration, but that simply triggers a CWP warning at a pre-determined threshold. Is the Astazou really so vibration sensitive that you need to monitor in flight?

Just a guess – could they be engine vibration gauges?