Nimrod yoke on eBay minus switches, item 182455158996

Runway06, can you check that auction # for the Nimrod wheel please. I’ve searched both US and UK Ebay and cannot come up with it. Searched on “Nimrod” too and came up empty…including in the “sold items”. Thank you: Swifter

A lot of talk about Swift sticks over the last few days. A rare and beautiful bird. Here’s a pic of the control I have….:dev2: It just ain’t a Supermarine

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Wow! Lots of activity posted today! Love it!

Darrell; on the Siebel Si 204 wheel, an internet search will get you plenty of photos and background on related aircraft. I noticed the seller took it down before it sold.

BasD; nice find/purchase on that Yak 38 column.

Tony: Love that pair of Lightning grips! And that Lanc project looks as though it might be the proverbial “piece of cake” compared to your other little project. I’ll echo Darrell…do provide a little history. I have a nice Lancaster wheel. If you need photos of anything let me know. And thank you for that listing of grips & wheels! Great idea to post it. The B-26 is the Marauder not A-26/B-26 Invader; the B-36 is the pre-B36H variant; B52s are D and H variants…maybe a G on the thread too; Convair is 240/340

Ian: Congrats on picking up the F4U grip. Nice one. And yes, I’ll be busy doing some restoration on some of the English wheels/yokes I’ve acquired.

GYD: That B58 column acquisition was a great one. Congratulations on that acquisition! I’d like to latch onto one of those to display with the F-102 unit in the collection.

To the forum at large: The brake handles on my Blackburn Beverly yoke I have are locked up…I suspect due to internal corrosion. Lube and metal-mover have had no effect on freeing up the handles. Started the process of removing the end-cap fasteners and ended up snapping a screw extractor! If anyone on the forum site has suggestions for a method to freeing them up I’d love to hear them. Thanks……..

Avro Lancaster control yoke for sale :
http://spitfirespares.co.uk/controls.html

Yikes ! At that price point I don’t imagine they’ll be beating the on the door to buy……….

Here’s a rare one not often seen on Ebay.

Item number: 282320285312

Hello all:

Until recently there was a German website with a great set of photos illustrating dozens of control sticks and wheels. I had this link:
http://www.cockpitinstrumente.de/ But it now longer works. Anyone here know if this German site has folded up shop, or whether they have migrated elswhere?

Thank you:

Hello, guys!
I’m a new one here and English is not my native language, so pardon for any mistakes. It happen so that last month I come across one interesting item. At first I thought it’s a C1 formation control grip stick. I regret there was no shield on it. But then I saw some differences. The cover is not solid as in the original, it is made of two parts. There is no plug in bottom, instead there is a wire with a plug. Contacts in the plug are marked with cyrillic letters. I know that soviet TU-4 was a replica of American B-29 but as I know autopilot was not copied. So are there any ideas what and where from it might be?

Hi and welcome:

Now that is a very interesting piece!! Given Russia’s well documented abilities at reverse engineering aircraft and other items after WWII, I think there is little doubt that it is a copy of the Formation Stick used in the B-17, B-24, B-29 and perhaps other US aircraft. It’s very interesting to see an example of the copying taking place at the fairly small component level. I know that Russian engineers would often “improve” on a design if they needed to tailor something. For example, I know that a later version of the TU-4 (B-29) you mentioned was actually powered by four turbo-prop engines. If you’re right, and the C-1 autopilot (and its sub-systems) were not incorporated into the TU-4 design, it doesn’t necessarily mean the autopilot system wasn’t copied. Your formation stick is very convincing evidence a B-17, B-24 or B-29 autopilot and related systems were copied and installed an aircraft. Now it will be really interesting to find out which late 1940s to early 1950s vintage Russian aircraft received the system.

As an aside, the C-1 autopilot disconnect switch was a very functional design. The Russians obtained the design, probably from a B-17/B-24. Now take a look at the switch assembly mounted on the left arm of the (four decades newer) the TU-22M control wheel in the photo. Care to guess the lineage….?

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