just to prove that we’re still here, here’s a quick update. As it’s that time of year, many of the group have been on some well deserved holiday, needless to say though work is still progressing.
We’ve been joined by an ex-commercial Flight Engineer (John Ashby) who has taken on the restoration of the FE Fuel C0ck controls and also the pilots escape hatch.
We’ve now connected up the flightdeck rudder controls between Fr3 and Fr6 and will be adding some sort of tensioning so that budding pilots can play hanger pilot.
I’ve been working on the fwd control column stop assembly, which being a Shorts design is massively OTT, must say a quick thanks to Martin (Hindenburg of these parts) who gave us access to his original item for measuring purposes. 🙂 The photos below show the 1st Pilots side which is slightly more complex that the 2nd Pilots as it also doubles as the mount for the control column ground lock struts.
The mount for the Lorenz Indicator has now been fabricated by Cliff and is installed on the main instrument panel, luckily we found some original spec shock mounts for this assembly
Kev has fabricated three of the various wooden floor panels for the flightdeck, the centre one between the seats is finished and needs painting and the 1st Pilots’ one between frames 4 & 5 is nearing completion with the Glycol pump now installed. These are of wooden sandwich construction.
John
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