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Can anyone identify the type of aircraft that this Control Wheel has come from?
Is the insignia AV...Avro?
eckhard
8th Apr 2018, 20:57
The logo looks like Vickers Armstrong. Maybe a Viscount? Or Valiant?
Kemble Pitts
8th Apr 2018, 21:08
Might be the Vickers-Armstrongs logo or Armstrong Whitworth. Doubt its Avro.
Can't offer any more though.
treadigraph
8th Apr 2018, 21:17
Think eckhard has nailed it.
Viscount cockpit (https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/94112993/q%3D80_m%3D2000/v2?webp=true&sig=3ac5ac6d18e312b710ed2bd2162de6e8c2edbc56e6c7e1dcd248a441 5e8d3996).
Not identical but certainly very similar.
Not sure on the Viscount. The wheel has a transmit switch, while the Viscount in the picture has buttons. Captain's side though; I assume that bit on the side is a stick-shaker?
drawbarz
8th Apr 2018, 22:05
The logo looks like the Armstrong Whitworth to me.
Jonn
drawbarz
8th Apr 2018, 22:26
On further reflection Vickers Armstrong. VC10 possibly?
John
DaveReidUK
8th Apr 2018, 22:29
The logo looks like the Armstrong Whitworth to me.
http://britishaviation-ptp.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/AW.jpg
Hmmm.
treadigraph
8th Apr 2018, 22:42
This pic of G-APIM's flight deck (http://www.aviation-fan-club.com/images/sberatelstvi/modely_hotove/vickers_cok.jpg) has the same switch, presumably there have been some variation between versions or customer requirements?
dixi188
9th Apr 2018, 08:08
I'll go with Viscount.
I remember changing those Page I/C - RT switches.
The round thing left of centre is the stall warning stick shaker.
Some Viscounts had the parking brake on the column as well.
Jhieminga
9th Apr 2018, 08:51
A Valiant yoke looks like this:
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/806/40441413325_8a53438509_c.jpg
It is definitively not a VC10 yoke either. The R/T and I/C switch does look like the ones on VC10s and Vanguards, which makes Viscount a likely suspect, apart from the logo. Perhaps those switches were common across various British airliners in those days. Has anyone looked at an Argosy yet?
Edit: And how about the Viking family? Including the Varsity and Valetta? I have a feeling there should be a brake lever behind the yoke on those ones, but there may have been differences there too.
l.garey
9th Apr 2018, 15:39
Looks like Vanguard. See, for example :
https://www.flickr.com/photos/davydutchy/20126153290
Laurence
Kemble Pitts
9th Apr 2018, 20:36
Vickers Armstrongs, not Vickers Armstrong. Sounds wrong I know but that's what it is.
Jhieminga
10th Apr 2018, 05:33
Laurence, the photo you posted shows a Viscount cockpit. This is a Vanguard flight deck:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/richard64pics/15946075995
The Vanguard yoke is more like the VC10 one, so I'd rule that one out. I have also ruled out my earlier suggestions of Argosy and the Viking-Varsity family, so Viscount it must be in my view.
DH106
10th Apr 2018, 05:35
Looks like Vanguard. See, for example :
https://www.flickr.com/photos/davydutchy/20126153290
Laurence
Dispite the title, I'm pretty sure that cockpit is a Viscount not a Vanguard. The Vanguard's is wider, has a wider centre console with 2 sets of throttles, and the cockpit windows are different.
l.garey
10th Apr 2018, 08:03
Sorry about that then. But the controls in my photo do seem to be the right ones, so Viscount appears to be correct.
Laurence
sheppey
10th Apr 2018, 12:15
This pic of G-APIM's flight deck has the same switch, presumably there have been some variation between versions or customer requirements?
I am sure the G-APIM picture is of a Viscount cockpit. I recognised the rudder trim as a circular knob with units 1 to 5 either side.
treadigraph
10th Apr 2018, 12:38
'PIM is definitely a Viscount!
Fly.Buy
10th Apr 2018, 18:18
Hi This is definitely Vickers Viscount, there were two types of yoke for the Viscount both slightly different. One type had brake levers the other type (which yours belong too) didn’t have the brake levers, I forget which series of Viscount this was attributed too, but would have appealed to such overseas markets as North America and others whereby they weren’t familiar to brake levers on their yokes.
Many thanks for the replies!