Does anyone have a list of aerojumbles which are planned for this year 2016?
Can we have some assurance from the museum that the shop won’t be closing earlier than listed this year!! I seem to recollect that this incident (Newarkgate) caused some anxiety amongst previous visitors.
Also will the inside of the Avro Ashton be open for display??
Are these fees on top of insurance hikes?
There will certainly be a demise of anything aviation in the UK in the next few years. Not only will there be less air shows from now on, but also a number of airfields are ear marked to close for property development!
This will obviously mean the death of the classics such as the 747SP and any 707’s if they are still flying in Iran ????
Being a dry airline is not a problem if I could save a hundred pound or two on long haul flights. The money is they will compete against the larger Middle East airlines once their fleet is built up. Competition can’t be a bad thing for the average fare paying customer.
Thanks for your kind words Nick, just luck really and quite a bit of time surfing the’net’. Berlin sounds exciting Ian, have a good time!
Latest acquisition is this Interflug Ilyushin 18 control column, purchased from a model shop in Berlin. They have other parts from the aircraft for sale, propeller, door and antenna if anyone is a fan of this aircraft type. Link:
https://www.aviation-center-berlin.de/m/DVDs_other_products_Original_Aircraftparts
Nice NOS HS121 Trident yoke on eBay (no autopilot or PTT switches), a sorely missed aircraft from our skies!
Helicopter ? http://www.ebay.de/itm/Steuerknuppel-Hubschrauber-/231809678528?hash=item35f8eefcc0:g:JDEAAOSwFqJWkpQ0
MIG 15-17 grip and pedals http://www.ebay.com/itm/Soviet-Aircraft-MIG-15-MIG-17-CONTROL-STICK-JOYSTICK-WAS-FED-Air-Force-RUSSIAN-/191767443116?hash=item2ca63af6ac:g:x~sAAOSwxN5WVe0o&vxp=mtr
The Pe2 yoke is a nice acquisition, it’s great when obscure yokes such as this materialise. On quick glance it looked like a De Havilland pattern yoke but once the eyes focus the differences are apparent. Could I ask where you got the diagram from? I’m just wondering if there is ready literature out there with regards to WWII Russian cockpits and yokes? Thanks
In the past for diagrams or illustrations of WWII cockpit panels / layouts, I have always contacted the research department at RAF Hendon museum. You can do this via their site on the Internet. They have always posted back to me (via postal mail or email) exactly what I have requested. There normally is a small charge for their photocopying services if they send back diagrams by postal mail but this is very reasonable. Good luck.
As usual great work on the P38 yoke Swifter, would be good sometime if you could detail on this forum just how you go about stripping and restoring a yoke. What type/model of grips have the triggers which you are looking for and I’ll keep an eye out for you?
Funnily enough, in the link to the RAF museum page the Saro Lerwick yoke looks very much like that in post #1060
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Although in sketch format they appear of similar shape in reality the Lerwick yoke is different to the DC3 wheel, mainly the Lerwick yoke is twice the size and has a few other subtle differences which the illustration cannot detail. (I had one stored under the bed for a while, but don’t tell the missus!) I did post a photograph of it a while back on this forum, also fitted to the Shorts London from memory, good spot though!
If it is of interest too anyone, linked here is a short article by the RAF museum on researching joysticks and yokes. I appreciate most of you will know all of this but it may help others who are new to this area of collecting. The author forgets to mention this forum as a resource!!
http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/blog/identifying-historic-aircraft-joystick/
Thanks Ian, I hear that Norway is the place to be at the moment for WWII wrecks, a lot of good stuff coming out of this country.
Thanks for the reply Anon but not DC3 either, probably about twice the size.