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Some interesting control wheels. Note the control wheel from D.B. Coopers 727.......

I have one from a C-130 mounted on the wall. Pretty neat.....

http://www.angelfire.com/il2/aphs/wheels/wheels.html

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great collection!!!

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

i had 1 from a b-26 marauder........ sold it to a guy in france who's father in law flew em with free french air forces during ww 2

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

warning.......the control wheel decorative centers of many aircraft are being reproduced like evey thing else at an alarming rate. buyer beware!!!

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

Beter known as: CENTER CAPS

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I could use a Convair center cap for my C-131 wheel (the T-29...actually a VT-29 was one of my dad's favorite aircraft.
I bought at a scrap yard next to Davis-Monthan in the early 90s for about $50.

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It is always interesting to see the variety in something as basic as an aircraft control wheel.I flew maybe 8000 hours in 15 or so different examples of the Beech 18.This included a 3NM,SNB-5P/TC-45J,UC-45J,C-45G,C-45H,D-18S,E-18S,G-18S and an ex-Air America C-45G or H that was coverted to a kit version of the Volpar VTB-18 tri-gear turboprop.

The point of this is to state that out of the various versions,the control wheel was mounted as depicted on only two civilian D-18S airplanes.The rest had it mounted in an inverted position to that depicted.I preferred the "inverted" position,probably because that was what I was used to using.

Larry...All due respect my man, but your posts will be a lot easier to read with the usual spaces between the .'s and ,'s.

Mudge the pedant

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Hi all,

that is a very impressive collection to say the least. The neat one is definitely the "D.B. Cooper" aircraft control wheel. As a side note to that particular one, in my "former life" as a Maintenance Inspector for the airline who flew that particular aircraft, I can say I have a connection to that particular one, because, as the aircraft was know within the airline as fleet number #2467, I saw it during it's maintenance cycles. F.Y.I, the number #2467 as it was known by the airline is as follows:

2 = Aircraft Type...in this case a 727
4 = Aircraft Model...in this case a 727-100
67 = Last numbers of the "N" registration number

By the time the old 727-100's were retired from service with the airline I was with, they were just "shot"..... the life span of the plane was WAY past it's original engineered life expectancy. Additionally, the older aircraft were such, that before Jet-A because as expensive as it is, that the "3 Man Cockpit" and 3 engine configuration was, as well as maintenance cost, but prohibatively costly from a Flight Crew standpoint.

FYI anyway...I figured a bit of triva would be neat with this post,

Paul

The Cooper case is bizarre. I'll have to read one of the books on it....

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Thanks for the tip,Mudge.I'm always open to constructive criticism and not much of a typist.

We've got a C-54 control wheel as the steering wheel in a Model A coupe we are building. Our bonneville car is getting an S-22 control wheel.