Identify the missing instrument!

[abgd]

Rounds remaining indicator

I've been working on some kill markings for whenever I down a spamcan:



Problem is they're all faster than me, and I can't catch them.

[27/09]

I think it might have been a clock in the vacant hole. The watch looks like a recent make shift addition to me.

[India Four Two]

Never mind the missing instrument, is the VSI actually a glider variometer? Winter?

[foxmoth]

With the cutout bottom left it would suggest a DI, cutout being for the setting knob.

[abgd]

I don't know who made the vsi. To me, a clock makes the most sense so far.

[gliderkev]

Electric vario/glide computer?

[abgd]

No. The Turbulent has many qualities, but gliding isn't one of them.

[Big Pistons Forever]

Seems alright to me. Must be some useless bit of an ancient steam driven mechanism removed to make room for a GPS.

[Gentoo]

a trombone

[treadigraph]

Thread about id'ing a Turbulent project in Sussex over on the Flypast - included a link to a nice article by James Gilbert which appeared in Flying in 1971.

Click here...

[abgd]

Isn't it just. They don't write magazines like they used to, I'm afraid.

[Stanwell]

Yes, thanks for that link, treadi.
Excellent article - informative and entertaining.
But, as abgd says above,,,,

[TheOddOne]

treadigraph,

Thanks for the link to the '71 magazine. While we're on the subject of panels, look at the magazine advert for the Bellanca Viking. It's advertising the panel as being must up-to-date. I have to say that the distribution of the instruments is most definitely NOT what we'd expect to see today. The DI and AI are transposed, the ASI is where the turn co-ordinator would normally be and the TC itself is in the middle of the panel, about where you'd find the transponder! I guess we've come a long way in 45 years...

TOO

[DeltaV]

Thanks from me too for the link, treadi, but reading it has provided yet another illustration of my failing memory. I knew the story about trimming the prop on Stoma, halfway between Caithness and Orkney, but in my memory Neil Williams was the culprit.

[blue up]

Have a look at Westach CHT gauges. I'd put money on it having had one in there at some point. VW heads, as you know, cook.

[DeltaV]

Only if you leave them without baffles.

[treadigraph]

DeltaV, Neil Williams' part in "The Caithness Saga" involved landing one of the "single seat" Super Tigers in a remote and sheep filled Scottish pasture to pack James Baring into the front cockpit (along with sundry baggage and the cockpit fairing) after Baring's Turb had split an oil line and force landed in the field!


There wasn't much room for Baring as that was where Rollason's had relocated the fuel tank during the mod to Super Tiger standard so I think he stood and clutched the cabane struts!


I think half the Tiger Club fleet had flown up to Caithness for a display and the adventures and tales of the trip were many and varied!

[culloden]

ha....it is clearly a "fun detector" and as such is totally unnecessary.
what a magic flying machine.

[DeltaV]

treadigraph, thank's for reassuring me that I'm not completely gaga. I knew Neil Williams was involved somehow even if I mis-remembered the actual detail.
The 'Flying circus' to Caithness was at Castletown airfield, I believe.

Oh, and don't try that on Stroma these days. No one lives there now and the lighthouse is unmanned. The sheep farmers visit periodically in the summer months but other than that you'd be on your own.

[Cough]

Clearly for the highly necessary Autopilot....