For Percival Provost Experts

Thanks Sycamore. Google? Frequently yes, this occasion, sadly not.

TBA was morse audio,,later replaced by ILS. Google may be your friend…

Interesting, thanks Sycamore. The antennas are the same, and I’m not sure how any direction indication would be obtained from the aerial atop the fuselage. Additionally, there is no provision for a Beam Approach Indicator or L/R indicator in the cockpit.

VHF aerial under port wing,TBA aerial on top of fuselage….(TBA-tuneable Beam Approach-old time L/R indicator)..

Hi Scrooge,

Certainly an aerial under the port wing, in addition to the (seemingly VHF) aerial atop the fuselage. Both highlighted in this photo taken from another thread on the wonderful Pist Prov
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That’s a shame about Captain Bombay.

Chippie51, no aerial under the port wing I’m aware of, the fuselage one is ELT/ELBA on the one I’m most familiar with.

As I had corresponded with ‘Captain Bombay’ over the history of his Percival Provost, on seeing the post by ‘Captain Clarke’, I dropped him a ‘heads up’ e-mail as he has not logged into this forum since September 2015.

Sadly I have had an e-mail reply from his wife reporting that her husband passed away last year. She also provided the information that ‘Captain Bombay’s’ Piston Provost was sold in November 2017 to a QANTAS Boeing 747 Captain in Sydney, although the aircraft currently remains in New Zealand.

Hello, I was interested to come across this fascinating thread. I have a question. I have noticed that Piston Provosts have a whip antenna on top of the fuselage and another under the port wing. Were two radios fitted, or was this above and bellow arrangement run from a single radio by way of a splitter?

When I did my training on Provosts they were all wearing yellow bands!

Always wanted a ride in one of these, lovely machine. IMO the silver & dayglo is the best look. Silver with yellow bands is just too common 😉

Captain Bombay, do you still have the Provost? My father was the one who brought it out to Australia from UK, and registered it VH-OIL. I was just tracking its movement since he sold it, because in helping him with a clean up, we discovered a spare compass for that aircraft.

Problem solved!! Thanks to Andrew, parts have been found and Mike Dale’s airplane will soon be flying again. Thanks to all for helping out!!

Getting great responses. Andrew, you are indeed the Master! Thanks for your insight and research!

Need some Parts AOG!!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I received an e-mail from Mike Dale. His PPRO is down with a fuel leak. He needs some parts for his fuel system.

He wrote….”would like to ask for help on a small but vital part. We need a small diaphragm in the fuel delivery system part no CH 116056 or we would settle for a pre mod part 60857. Both of them would be ideal!”
I have my people in New Zealand looking through my parts cache (but I have to buy them single malts for their efforts) but was hoping some of my “expert” friends might have some of these diaphragms.
If I have any, then they are his. It is important to keep these great airplanes flying. I am sure he would reciprocate if my PPRO was down.

Any help out there?
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Bob

I’m a bit late to this thread but thought I would provide a bit of history. I flew in a Provost while in Oman as the BAC Representative on SOAF Strikemaster. I can’t say I remember a rear view mirror. In the photographs is me, stepping in and Al Datchler on the other side. The year was 1969

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Slightly off thread, but the chap that recently passed on had the models made in the Philippines by a relation out there. He made a superb model of an Auster I owned back in the 1990’s. The detail was incredible and he told me that the fine detail paintwork was actually done with a paint brush that only had one hair!

Lovely Captain; much better than my 1/72nd Matchbox effort all those years ago. Now to get the real one home!!!!!

A great pity that that fine modeller is no longer with us.

Cannot see from your photos, but did he remember the blue bands on the u/c fairings. I know, just being picky!

Bob

That is a fine model, and its sad that the person that built it is no longer with us

Tim S

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My Model came this week. Almost a year since ordering it from a Gentleman in the UK. It is a masterpiece. Sadly, he died last month.

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While browsing through the topics I spotted this fascinating forum on Provost T.1 WW397. Although it is probably too late, I have a photograph of the subject aircraft taken during a brief allocation back to CFS in October 1968. As you can see, it bears the standard Flying Training Command markings of all-over silver with red dayglo scotchal-tape stripes introduced on the type in 1961. It would be great to see her back in the air again!

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