By: MrBlueSky - 12th February 2009 at 22:55
Thank you everyone for your help.
Trust the bloody Whirlwind to have a compass thats hardly ever been photographed… 😀
Still, on to Mk IV Fuel Contents Gauges…:eek:
By: low'n'slow - 11th February 2009 at 10:17
Here are the relevant pages from the Air Ministry manual……
PM me with your e-mail address if you want a pdf sending to you……
By: Proctor VH-AHY - 10th February 2009 at 21:25
Gooday All
The luminous bits are in fact little glass tubes filled with “something that glows” which I think may be radioactive and hence dangerious. If I want to overhaul say a P8 what can I use for the luminious bits.
Of course, its likely that if they were to be fitted to …. say in a Tiger Moth, then its unlikely to fly at night and the additional purpose of these “bits” is to be highly visible as white lines during the day.
cheers
By: low'n'slow - 10th February 2009 at 12:37
Hope these might be of assistance. The first is of one as fitted to a ‘wartime-build’ Tiger Moth. The second is of the very well researched and restored cockpit of 1933 Tiger Moth G-ACDA.
By: Arabella-Cox - 10th February 2009 at 12:00
This will give you a start:-
Markings on a wartime P6 compass will have been similar to this.
Pity the interior is obscured, but, from memory, I think the spider is black, with luminised needles, the bowl is painted a creamy white.
I’ve indicated which other bits would have been luminous, i.e. every major heading “N”, “NE”, “E”, every tenth degree line, etc. You can pretty much tell by the colour.
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