DH88 Comet Instrument Panel Pictures

You’re spot on.

Turns out that he was firing off a complaint about his Comet voucher being invalid.

Love it!

He was just using the original ‘Word!’.

You’re spot on.

Turns out that he was firing off a complaint about his Comet voucher being invalid.

He was just using the original ‘Word!’.

^^:D
Made my day…

I see that Ricketts has an early iPad, wonder what aviation apps he had?

Clouston.

Clou’s account of flying back over the Alps in severe icing conditions makes sober reading for any pilot. Scary stuff. Makes one want to stick to ‘Wing Commanders weather’…! 😮

For an excellent read on the Comet Racer I can highly recommend “The Dangerous Skies” by A E Closton whop relates his experince flying the aircraft on record flights to Australia and the Cape

Here is a pic of Ricketts in the cockpit showing how tight space was.
Ken

There’s a contemporary drawing in the current edition of the “other” long established historic aviation monthly which shows a Ricketts typewriter with an altimeter, ASI, Sperry Artificial Horizon and P4 compass all squeezed over to the RHS of the cockpit

Post 6 picture 2 from Mike J,looks like a Smiths M1 clock fiited to
the front cockpit,I maybe wrong …but if not,only the second photo
(Puss Moth) that I seen of these clocks fitted to aircraft.
Thanks Mike J!
Cheers Mike

OK own up who pinched both Altimeters? 😉

The retract mechanism on Grosvenor House is electric but it does have the facility to be wound down by hand. The wheel is usualy disconnected from the main retract unit but can be engaged with a clutch. The system uses a large screwed rod assembly to wind the undercarriage up and down so no it doesnt drop if you let go

Ken

Is the gear an easy job with that wheel? Does it have something to stop it spinning & lowering the gear if you let go?

Many thanks for the great pics they are just what I was looking for. I managed to wangle a sit in the Comet a couple of years ago both in the front and back seats but never took pics, it was brilliant
Ken

Trawling the web in an idle moment, I came up with these shots of the original Comets.

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=4138993

http://oztypewriter.blogspot.com/2011/04/empire-aristocrat-typewriter-makes.html

http://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?showtopic=19442

Ken, I dropped into Old Warden on the way back from Congleton this afternoon and got a photo of the rear panel for you. It’s quite uncluttered by dials.

dh88_Comet_6103 by shuttleworthpix, on Flickr

dh88_Comet_6092 by shuttleworthpix, on Flickr

Just for good measure, here’s the front seat view

dh88_Comet_6095 by shuttleworthpix, on Flickr

I have a feeling that the picture posted is of the front panel, not the rear. This shot on Flickr supports that thought: http://www.flickr.com/photos/39411748@N06/6909869664/

Thanks for the picture, I have plenty of the front panel but none of the rear, for some reason I never took any earlier this year when I was down there and was able to look inside it close up.
Ken

The best I can manage being so short!