Recent content by Denys Jones

I posting this on behalf of a friend who has the unit shown in the attached photos and is wanting to id it and establish what it was used in that would lead to is being here in NZ. We are assuming that FN88 is identifying a Frazer-Nash unit. In the PSL book on British Aircraft Armament Vol 1...

Here's more photos. The first two confirm that the faces of the spar in the wet bay were coated, as well as giving a good look at the outside of the wet bay faces of the two shear beams showing that they were too. The third photo is inside the cabin and the freshly primed area along the lower...

No problems chaps always happy to publicise our project, here's a thread I post progress to on a local (NZ) forum. https://rnzaf.proboards.com/thread/23393/ferrymead-news?page=34 If you go back to the page 1 you can have a good long read, plus you'll see some of our other projects. It may...

The illustration from the T.O. 01-75KA-2 is a tad misleading in that it conveys the impression that there are actual tanks per se. The description of a wet wing is best accurate. The inboard walls are the fuselage wall, the frontmost and rearmost walls are the front and rear shear beams of the...

This should clarify things http://avstop.com/ac/apgeneral/chapter5.htm You also need to note that the British used their own system which is generally similar in concept but differs in the threads, angle of the cone etc. It's reference is part of their AGS syste of aircraft hardware. cheers

I'm hoping someone here might know if these units are in fact gun firing solenoids and if so what aircraft they might apply to. All I can tell you is... - they are in New Zealand and came from a deceased estate property where there was literally buckets full of them so that restricts them to...