Autopilot control **** – a NOS example on the left, on the right, an example from a Whitley that crashed in the far north of Scotland. Note the union coming out of the top. It has an unusual thread – British standard brass (BSB) and I had to buy a special tap and die set especially for this job.
A refurbished example – the unions are a mixture of Armstrong Whitworth/AGS parts. I had to machine the two shiny aluminium reducing unions as they were unobtainable. The two stainless parts were found some years ago in a dump and are Whitley/Albemarle. All brought back together for the first time in many years.
More pictures to come over the weekend, including some Whitley control column and centre section progress.
Hi Neil
There is a lot going on, but I haven’t taken any pictures for a while. Here are a few that I happened to take previously. I’ll try to get some more for you at the weekend.
Steel control column parts going for plating.
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