A short (no pun intended)while since the last update, but things have not been stationary. As with all these projects you get sudden bursts of activity when things seem to fly together. We’ve now got to that stage and have worked through the backlog of parts that had been manufactured and restored as a kit.

The emphasis now is on building up the seat structure, from previous posts the main body of the seats has been made, but we’re now working on the fiddly height and longitudinal adjustment mechanism. To assist us in this, we’ve been lucky to have had a major part of the lower seat structure loaned to us by CEBRO, which came from BK710. This is a sizeable chunk of structure and is quite complex in itself, thankfully we have the drawings for the height adjustment mechanism. Hopefully we will be able to mount the seats on their respective rails early in the New Year 🙂

Stirling Project YouTube video

Dear all

Just for a change, here’s a link to our new YouTube channel with a short piece of camera phone footage taken at the weekend showing progress with our flightdeck. Both control columns and wheels are now linked and operate together; a sight not seen for over 60 years:cool:

http://www.youtube.com/user/StirlingAircraft?feature=mhee

We’re starting to see a semblance of a flight deck now. As before p1 and P2 columns have now been drilled and installed on the floor beams. In addition, the throttle box complete with instrument panel has been slaved together in it’s correct orientation albeit that the throttle box is 0.5″ too high as we have had to jury rig a support up as the correct support has yet to be made.