New subject, who can identify these old relics

This will be a good test... Just rediscovered on "that shelf" my wife wants cleaned up!

I will attempt to refit with an LED and add it to the museum.

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look at the logo on the handle, an old form of re purpose . It will need cleaned, but then will end up in the museum.

Anybody have a timed out ELT 10 battery?
 
Finally back in heaven and looking for the finished pic of a panel for another thread, can't find it, gotta wait on my Sweetie to look further.

I did find this old relic I should break out once in a while as a response. I spent many a day tearing myself up removing a lot of wire and building a new panel on one of these... On Mark, with the clear nose. What aircraft? What did On Mark do to it!

Though I would have posed for this in a heartbeat, I never got to fly in the one I worked on...

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Bob Weber said:
View attachment 79377 Who got screwed up training with one of these..
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I've got two of these that came out of my 182, they look good on the shelf...

Bob Weber said:
A buddy of mine had a used car lot and ended up with a Ducati 908 that looked like it was hand built, I only rode it a couple times, but that, I think was the beginning of the end!

I beat the hell out of an old softail Harley as my last road bike, we live in a small village now and look forward to toodeling around to the slip on little bikes.

Today I ride a CT 70, I built this one around the time I did the Ninja, It gets a refresh as well as the Wife's new ride. Her first question was "do I get to shift it?" View attachment 79437 View attachment 79438
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KM100 was my first bike, I haven't seen one in years...
 
a572mike said:
I've got two of these that came out of my 182, they look good on the shelf...



KM100 was my first bike, I haven't seen one in years...
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My Wife will get a kick out of this! Mine was a Benelli 65.

Who can remember how those radios, and later indicators, confused the thought process of dialing in a VOR?
 
Jim Carpenter said:
Love the 3 miniature guys theory, maybe add a miniature John Harrison longitude clock, and off you go.
A bit of searching found this link for the Air Position Indicator:
https://aeroantique.com/products/ai...b-manual-t-o-5n-3-1-31?variant=12200532312153
Sounds like it was pre-cursor to modern inertial nav systems, using airspeed and heading information to calculate long/lat assuming no wind, then the navigator would apply a wind vector correction. All mechanical analog, too.
OK, a bit off the thread track, but anybody remember the Curta Calculator?
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I just saw this one and it reminded me of this old indicator, I don't remember where it came from. I pulled a lot of equipment out of old warbirds, it always amazed me how much real estate they took up!IMG_20191112_133341.jpg
 
Bob Weber said:
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I did find this old relic I should break out once in a while as a response. I spent many a day tearing myself up removing a lot of wire and building a new panel on one of these... On Mark, with the clear nose. What aircraft? What did On Mark do to it!

Though I would have posed for this in a heartbeat, I never got to fly in the one I worked on...
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There's a wiki page that tells about the mods On Mark did on the A-26 Invader.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Mark_Marksman
 
SToL said:
There's a wiki page that tells about the mods On Mark did on the A-26 Invader.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Mark_Marksman
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Yep the A-26B "an honest four hundred knot aircraft", this was said by the guy that flew it into Grand Junction. It was fascinating to see the armament wiring bundles I pulled out, and the armor plate. I really wanted to dig into the engines deep down in my heart!
 
Still looking for an elusive picture, and found this old relic..

Many a night spent curled up reading it with a head full of dreams. A long time ago..


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These relics were used to explain the how and why of gyros, any guess which one is which?

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An old relic, minted the same year as me... 59'

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One of the early altitude preselects, with a fine trim adjust for accuracy!

It worked on the old "coffee grinder" technology.

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I was always taught to provide an install print, this is a very early Webair provided print!IMG_20191119_162611.jpg
 
Who can Identify this old gear and has anyone seen one that was in this good of shape?IMG_20191211_171910.jpg
 
My first flight director. One put the red balls over the green balls.
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Bob Weber said:
DH 841A I would wager
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It was a tiny little add on box to the M4D autopilot. To hand fly it you had to engage the autopilot and flight director, then disengage the autopilot. I liked it........but the M4D was unreliable.
 
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It was a tiny little add on box to the M4D autopilot. To hand fly it you had to engage the autopilot and flight director, then disengage the autopilot. I liked it........but the M4D was unreliable.
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I believe that gyro model number is DH 841A.

If you knew how the servos work in an M4D system you would understand some of the reliability issues..

That's a cool old relic in good shape, what is it?
 
I removed this a while back..

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Bob Weber said:
Finally back in heaven and looking for the finished pic of a panel for another thread, can't find it, gotta wait on my Sweetie to look further.

I did find this old relic I should break out once in a while as a response. I spent many a day tearing myself up removing a lot of wire and building a new panel on one of these... On Mark, with the clear nose. What aircraft? What did On Mark do to it!

Though I would have posed for this in a heartbeat, I never got to fly in the one I worked on...
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Spent numerous weekends in the tail of a B model pulling junk wiring out. I filled a refrigerator box with what I removed. I'd lose about 10 pounds of weight every weekend I was in there, as the summer of 1980 was one of the hottest on record in central Texas.
 
Craig said:
Spent numerous weekends in the tail of a B model pulling junk wiring out. I filled a refrigerator box with what I removed. I'd lose about 10 pounds of weight every weekend I was in there, as the summer of 1980 was one of the hottest on record in central Texas.
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I'm still looking for that picture, finally came across this old jewel.

I was in Grand Junction for decades, I now live in Michigan to get away from the heat and close to the water.

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wanttaja said:
I'm trying to figure out how to hook this up in my Fly Baby.
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For that matter, this one, too...but it's missing a knob.
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I'd like to 3-D print a knob to fit it, but can't get find any images of what it originally looked like. From the size of the fitting, this actually looks like it takes a tachometer cable rather than a knob.

Label says "Closing Speed Control Ind Type No. 841 BK-01-883". The "883" is in slightly different characters, so I think it's a serial number. Manufacturer is "Kollsman Instrument Division of the Square D Company."

Ron "One last call for alcohol so finish your whiskey or beer" Wanttaja
 
wanttaja said:
For that matter, this one, too...but it's missing a knob.
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I'd like to 3-D print a knob to fit it, but can't get find any images of what it originally looked like. From the size of the fitting, this actually looks like it takes a tachometer cable rather than a knob.

Label says "Closing Speed Control Ind Type No. 841 BK-01-883". The "883" is in slightly different characters, so I think it's a serial number. Manufacturer is "Kollsman Instrument Division of the Square D Company."

Ron "One last call for alcohol so finish your whiskey or beer" Wanttaja
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That looks like a remote cable type set up there, I would guess it ties that indicator to a large box that crunches God knows what information.
 
Bob Weber said:
That looks like a remote cable type set up there, I would guess it ties that indicator to a large box that crunches God knows what information.
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Yeah, that seems logical, considering how big the fitting is. Probably kluge up something that fits and looks halfway original.

Thanks!

Ron Wanttaja
 
Bob Weber said:
That's a cool old relic in good shape, what is it?
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I can't remember what it was called. It was installed in a 1967 King Air A90, along with a PILE of other old airline boxes. I just happened to run across that picture a few years ago and saved it. I've never seen another.
 
There's a certain nostalgia in these, even for people like me who did not grow up flying with these.. sad to think that in 30 or 40 years a dusty g1000 pfd screen or control module will lack the nostalgic effect that these have.. somehow telling my kids "I flew with one of these" surely will elicit a different kind of response
 
I suppose I can pass this as a relic..

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Finally I find it, from left to right and all the way down I built. no longer gracing this site but had to share..
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