PR7 at RAF Millom

Here are a couple of pics of our PR7. The hatch that is open just aft of the trailing edge on the belly made reference to camera equipment.

We have several marks tech. manuals A/Ps in our tech library if you need more detailed info.

G-OLFC the crashed Piper Tomahawk flies again (virtually)

Piper Tomahawk G-OLFC that crashed at Ashcroft near Manchester has now been modified with screens and the controls hooked up to a PC. There is still a bit of work to do yet but I thought I would put it’s maiden flight on a video to keep folk updated with it’s progress. It needs an instrument screen put in and thottle coupled up to pc then its pretty much good to go. No seats were to be found anywhere for a PA38 so a Toyota Hi Ace van provided something suitable instead!

here is a link to the facebook vid

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/video/video.php?v=283806051360&ref=mf

Better video and pic of Tomahawk Simulator flying.

Pictured is a friend and non pilot Martin Shaw carrying out the second test flight.

And here is the improved Youtube link:

http://www.youtube.com/user/RAFMillom#p/a/u/0/vgQixNoD5Wg

HS748 G-BEJD and G-OLFC progress report.

Sorry Jetstream Man, No news at the moment. Glynn is looking at getting funds together to get hauliers in in conjuction with a squad of volunteers from Millom once the clocks go forward and weather gets better. Not sure if I am going in as wing bolt ferret or if there will be a sympathetic “chop and patch”. The latter I would prefer because it’s uncomfortable in there! I suppose it will depend upon how easy the remaining wing bolts are to remove.

I removed the old throttle assembly to save on construction time. The Saitek quadrant that replaces it does everything (and more) that the old one did with out messing about hooking up more cables to a joystick.
The switches are a saitek panel (again saving lots of time) and the Radio panel does a whole host of other functions as well. Using this will control things like the altimeter subscale etc so will get things running until I make the cover panel for the instrument screen.

Spitfire build update

Just a quick update of where we are up to on our latest Spitfire cockpit.

The base is not fastened to the framework and it is still really strong so far.

Spitfire/109 simulators

Should be able to do something for you then with the Millom simulators. If not spit/109 certainly a Piper Tomahawk. Give me a PM with your number and I will sort something out.

Patty

Smirky,

Thanks for that but it’s going to be a flat screen monitor with an overlay for the instruments.

Here are some pics of it’s current state of (dis) repair.

Got a few bits that will probably be surplus. Couple of under fuselage skid clamps and original panel immediately spring to mind. I will PM you a list if you want. Quite a few electrical and fuel valve type bits also.

There seems to be a real shortage of control parts hence me getting the cyclic stick made. Niel Airey got me collective for the left seat but I desparately need one for the right hand seat with the throttle and switches etc. Nothing in place for the pedals either so I’m really struggling there.

Patty