In July I posted a photo I got from my friend Graham Berry. You guys helped me to identify the object in the photo as the cover for the Ultra Violet lights.
Now I have received another photo from Graham. The parts are from Joe Berry’s Tempest Mk. V SD-F (EJ600), but where do they belong on the Tempest? Looks like “something hydraulic”. From the undercarriage?
Thanks in advance!
Christer Landberg
By: chla - 17th October 2003 at 13:26
Quiz solved!
Thanks for the replies! Yes, this was a more tricky one, but..
First, Graham was later told that the only part belonging to a Tempest is the one marked “TEMP V”. The other part belongs to a Messerschmitt (109?) 🙁
But the nearest IS the emergency hand pump as David suggests. Found a drawing and it matches perfectly!! Part L in the drawing below.
Once again, thanks for the help to identify the part!
Cheers,
Christer Landberg
By: David Burke - 10th October 2003 at 20:20
The one nearest looks like an emergency hand pump -it should have a handle attached at the top which works on a pivot. From memory the Hurricane has the same pump. The other item looks very much like a main u/c retraction jack.
By: neilly - 10th October 2003 at 10:08
The person you want to get hold of is Tom W. He’s working on the Tempest V at Booker.
Neilly
By: whalebone - 10th October 2003 at 01:12
I like the “Thanks in advance” bit, this is a tad more tricky I feel.
Difficult to judge without something to reference the actual size against.
From a purely engineering standpoint the larger object in the foreground if you were to stand it upright resembles hydraulically some sort of master cylinder.
It is very reminicent of a car brake master cylinder from the 1960’s, it certainly looks to me like a double acting device. i.e. it has two cylinders the smaller primary one (now underneath) feeding the larger secondary (uppermost). To work it would require an external power input, from the pilot perhaps ?
The large union at 90 degrees on the left hand end is the output, the hole roughly in the middle could be where the filler/level plug used to reside and the drillings in the casting at the right hand end and the lug behind just visible with a single drilling could be where and input shaft pivoited or was located. The small hole between the output end and the filler hole probably had a smaller output union to a guage or a bleed valve a some point.
The long cylinder above it has a pair of banjo unions, both with bleed nipples and an interconnecting pipe to one end. Suggesting that it is also hydraulic but probably some sort of two way actuator, U/C cover or flaps perhaps ?
Pure speculation but based on an engineering background of course.
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October 9, 2003 at 11:23 pm