‘As an aside, Lou, the old chap I’ve been speaking to, said a bomber belly-flopped in the shallows and rode up the beach. The crew got out unscathed and were taken to Rye Harbour on the Pett Level tram! ‘
You can guess I’m relaying this in from another forum (NGRM – Narrow Gauge Modelling – A man is allowed his guilty secrets…)
It’s a different field, however this reminds me of the switch box used to switch out a railway signal box. Perhaps it cut out an observation post in a line of observers
In Saggitarius Rising, there is a description of some of those early wireless operations. IIRC, ground crew would communicate back to aeroplanes by using some sort of large flag. I wonder if that’s what is down the left hand column of your instrument?
Those O rings. I looked at those and thought fitting the second O ring looked like a frightful bodge. If the installation conditions meant that the first one fails, why would the second one be any better?
As a matter of interest were the O rings in the booster solid rockets made from the same nitrile rubber as the ones you can buy at a plumbers shop only bigger.
I wondered about that, and I think it was the clamp he bought, not the rubber section
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