Is this the same unit that was on display at the Tangmere museum about ten years ago?
Contra-rotating unit from the front of a Python engine, minus propeller blades. Just under five feet in length and weighing around a third of a ton, its said to of come from VZ795 and was acquired with the help of Mike Eastman.
From left to right it consists of propeller pitch piston and cylinder – front propeller hub – translation bearing – rear propeller hub – propeller brake housing – drive shafts and oil tube. The oil tube running through the centre of the drive shafts supplied oil to the pitch piston, to simultaneously change the pitch of both sets of propellers via the operating links and translation bearing.
Rob
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