We amended the Jaguar APs to include a cloth called IIRC ‘Skywipes’, there was also a similar compound made by the same manufacturer. I’ll dig out the Vol 6A to get a definite answer
Don’t think they ever had a Voice Recorder (it was always a recommendation of Boards of Inquiry) Standby Compass (E2B) should be relatively available. You should get an e-mail soon detailing the NSNs to go with the AJAX unit.
I’m doing a large profile of a Short Stirling IV as part of a little project, and have run into a little problem. I’ve got a number of scale plans / drawings and profiles (SAMI, Aviation news, Warpaint and Sqn/Signal and a number of modelling magazines) as references and they are all different in major repects. Could anybody here who is a Stirling expert recommend the most accurate drawings of the aircraft that they know of to use as a starting point?
Some years ago I had to go to Aston Down before it’s closure to categorize Jaguar and Canberra production tooling (mostly Jag) that was held there. Whilst most of it was badly corroded and not much use, we were able to pass on some Jag Flap and Slat jigs and fixtures to Beagle aircraft who carried out a lot of component refurb. The tooling itself took up nearly half of a blister hangar and I think that was less than half of the total tooling that would be needed for productionisation.
Unfortunately a lot of the items could not be identified and I believed they were sold for scrap. 🙁
Can’t vouch for the MMD although my first thoughts on seeing the picture of the film was that it was part of the old BAE recce pod which used wet film, but Pauls comments and views of the MMD tends to make me think that he’s correct. F4MPhixer has it right I think
I haven’t got immediate access to a screen, but was hoping that someone would be able to give me a quick answer. It would seem from the various posts that the 2 types are not that similar and we may have to try your suggestion at a later date.
DH Support have been contacted and were unable to assist due to lack of comparable design data between the 2 variants. None of the cockpits that the screens are needed for are airworthy and all are T10s, so paperwork is not an issue. Info like the height of the screens is very pertinent so if anyone has a Canuck version in the UK that a height comparison can be made from?…..
If they are close in dimension, they may be usable for our purposes.
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