Operating at ‘coffin corner’? Hot, high, turbulence……..
Keith
WK590, Thank you.
Keith
To me it could have an alternative name of Artificial Feel Unit – TSR2 had a hydraulic unit attached to the joystick below the cockpit floor. Similar vintage?
Texantomcat – I’m from Sywell – my father was there in ’38 & bought his Proctor there in ’49.
Label says Type 192 ? Belvedere?
What equipment requires 1000 Volts?
Valiant spars & Viscounts too were strictly not 7075, but of the same Al-Zn family, DTD 683 I believe. Viscounts were resparred with L65 which is of the Al-Cu 2024 family. Mind you the first Viscount outer wing I saw at Weybridge that was due to be re-sparred was horrifically rivetted – double holes & rivets too long and ‘nailed’ over – no wonder it failed a ground stress test!
Viking wing spar joints I believe were also of DTD 683 & were known to have corrosion cracking way back in ’52 (?).
BTW Canberra ‘epsteins’ were known to crack in storage – not sure what the material was though.
800 pages to wade through, but you might find your answers here.
Keith
Thanks from me too – very interesting to know that DH also used the lofting on sheet metal plates & litho process – I worked in the Vickers Weybridge Mould Loft in 1959/60 where they used a similar system, but were gradually moving over to plastic film & a photo print process for detail parts & some assembly drawings during 1960.
Keith
That would seem logical. The 1st pic with 64816 311 ND could be from the Port engine nacelle; Port side numbers were odd & Stbd parts were even numbered if they were handed left or right. For the other pic Sht = Sheet drawings which were assemblies, so part 311 ND could be an item within that Sheet 202.
Looks like its a Vickers Varsity from the drawing number – 648. Cannot remember what the 16 ident part of the aircraft is, only remember that 28 was forward fuselage!
1st pic drawing number looks to be 64816 311 ND, possibly meaning a Not Drawn item, meaning not having a detailed dimensioned drawing – meaning file to fit hammer to suit?
Nice to hear that – she was once my uncles Throttle Bender mount in the 50’s & 60’s
Keith
Jetpipe & air scoop shadow do not align with mainplane shadow………..? Nice try though!
I think they look a bit more like Chobert rivets rather than Pop rivets. I believe Choberts were mounted on a long mandrel & were therefore quicker to install unless they needed plugging to either get full strength or for sealing purposes.
No idea what aircraft they are on!
Doesn’t look as though it ever had one…..how about the plain nuts as well as having 1 1/2 threads safety?
The right hand one looks like the one fitted to my fathers Proctor I