Hello all:

Below is the finished restoration of the CL-28 “Argus” wheel. Produced by Canadair waaaay before their Bombardier days, the Argus was a big, good looking, four-engined Maritime Patrol aircraft powered by Wright R-3350 duplex radials. As FlyBuy noted in an earlier post here, only 33 were made. So the cost per aircraft, including all DDT&E, must have been horrendous. It was a 1950s version of the not-too-far-down-the-road P-3 Orion, which the Canadians ultimately took on strength.

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Interesting French grip on US Ebay. I don’t know what it’s out of but seller’s guesses are way off….

https://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-WW-2-ME-109-FW-190-STYLE-AIRCRAFT-CONTROL-GRIP-Complete-w-connector/123905063929?hash=item1cd9513bf9:g:Y6IAAOSw5yhdepj5

Thanks for the photo Darrell. It supports my hypothesis that Argus aircraft were delivered with the Doug/Convair type caps. As you noted about the holes, my wheel also mounted the scroll type square display board at one time. These holes were unevenly placed crudely drilled. The scroll board installations were almost certainly a field mod done to the aircraft after delivery to the RCAF. The photo below shows what I believe to be a NOS Argus wheel that was not installed on an aircraft. Not a high quality photo, but it will serve as the model for restoration. No drilled holes and no scroll board.

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Hello all:

I don’t get here as often as I used to but I echo the sentiments expressed above. This thread has been an invaluable resource over the years. Visotka1, the feedback may not be immediate but most involved in this arcane corner of collecting very much appreciate what you have shared over the last couple of years, along with the quality and sheer breadth of your work. Keep it coming!

Nick (Swifter)

everything is in process.

Hi Visotka1: I’ll echo the comments already made about your IL-18 wheel. That is nice work you are doing. I’m sure it will be a show piece when you are done.

The IL-18 is a wheel I would like to acquire….

Hi all:
A question for you…especially to those of you knowledgeable of airliner control wheels. Regarding the control wheels used in DC-8s after the mid-1960s and in all iterations of the DC-9; were the castings used all the same? Or were there some nuances? Thank you for any help.

Hi Andy: Thanks for chiming in! Nice to meet the man I was bidding against….LOL. Couldn’t agree with you more…very nice artifact.

Assuming F-106 yokes were finished in the same fashion as those in the F-102, they were just coated with semi-gloss paint. Nothing as fancy as powder-coat. Unlike many other aircraft that had the lettering for switch functions engraved into a thick, hard coating applied to the yoke, the “switch function” lettering on the stalks of the F-102 appear to have been spray-painted on using stencils. See photo. Other lettering, like on the center pedestal, was done with decals. On first impression the F-106 yoke looks to have been produced the same way.

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I researched it some years ago–I don’t recall finding a difference between the F and TF-102 grips. The pics are of my 102 grip after restoration a few years back. Best source to verify that would be the “-1” flight manual.

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