Well Done Jet Age Museum, I am really pleased you got her, and to think two Javs just down the M5 from me, can’t express how chuffed I am – now, just two more to collect from afar, bring them home …. let’s go!
Box was XH767, now Elvington.
Lovely.
JEK

Brillaint Herbert, that looks sensational, nice to see the GGS re-united with a headpad.

The twin microswitches on the top linked by the large bridge (that pops off when you depress the spring-loaded ends) is NORMAL TRIM nose up / down.
The ‘thumb’-side button runs the gun camera.
The one hiding at the front of the grip may be a copy of the Press-To-Talk or Press-To-Mute (both also on the Stbd throttle).

Trigger and Safety catch don’t need a mention, other than to say as soon as you move the safety catch away from SAFE, the gun-firing inverters (Type 300) would start if guns were selected (… and no weight on wheels or Butt Test switches ON!).

You’ve done her proud there.
Any further clues to the aircraft I/D?

One interesting point from your pic of the rear of that main panel is the fitment of the Horizon Gyro Mk3A rather than the FAW.9’s default HGU Mk3 – an odd choice since it has an 18-way cable on it designed to connect to a control unit for auto-fast-erect and be able to feed the Sperry automatic pilot I’d normally associate with an FAW.8 – or I might just be mad!

Good stuff.

Cheers
JK

Hi Alex

After much trawling over the years for anything at all relating to AI Mk 17 I only found poor pics of these two which may lead you somewhere –

Valetta T4 WG256 (Wfu 1967 on Wyton dump – nice b&w pic of whole a/c)
Valetta T4 WJ469 0 from 228OCU Leeming 1957 (just its nose poking out in an airshow static lineup)

Be most interested in any gen around ARI.5807 AI.17, being a huge Javelin fan myself. I’ve gathered all the usual cockpit pics from online and PNs, but this particular EKCO? setup is very poorly represented isn’t it. Just a system schematic would be nice, or pics of the control units and scanner setup. I’ve got the Collimator NF Mk3 lens assembly and mounting frame but sadly the baby CRT had gone from the tube but I have handled one back in the 70s. I remember the Pilot’s Type 900 controller for collimator brightness/focus, and have the Type 902 from the Nav’s Stbd console. Beyond that, the whole setup is a mystery. Frustrating really, being only 8 miles from Defford and 6 miles from Malvern!

HTH
John

… at least it will have company in the barn what! Super job Steve, glad it turned out so well, a real beauty.
JK

Hi Herbert
PM sent
Regards
John

Hi Herbert
1) Just a red warning lamp (Jav front cockpit, over gun scavenge magnetic indicators, port coaming panel you have that supports the ARC52). Nav has the same lamp on the high-level instrument panel – the set of three lamps you have – top = white (too high), middle = green (at altitude), bottom = red (too low). Google RT7 APN-1. The RT-7 Tx/Rx does have an automatic pilot coupler but no idea whether it’s an input or an output, and no evidence Javs ever exploited it.

2) Yep, NDBs / VORs. (or broadcast radio if you were bored). Here’s the Marconi 7092 gubbins, the control panel fits in your square space, Nav upper right panel …

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JK

Hi Herbert

It just applies a constant gentle physical ‘hum’ to the case (runs from the 115v AC supply IIRC) to keep the reading accurate – a means to protect the instrument from the shock of the old-fashioned way – tapping the glass – as the older instruments had a habit of sticking slightly like any barometer, and 20 Feet could make all the difference! I guess it demonstrates just how good the anti-vibration measures were in terms of the panel mounting itself. Problem designed out nowadays presumably.

John