Simshed sneak one in....

PhilipsCDRW · Post by **PhilipsCDRW** » 22 Jan 2007, 15:00

JimCooper wrote:
PhilipsCDRW wrote:This book, I think it was called "Flight Tests" or something similar, had some black-and-white photographs of the civilian 125 panel, showing things like the pressurisation panel and weather radar IIRC. I could get it over here and scan the pictures if they'd be remotely useful!
If Simshed are going to produce a HS125 then we'll need as much info as possible as Brian and I only have Dominie stuff!! Your offer is very much welcomed.

Regards

Jim

I'm very sorry Jim, this book isn't as I remember it; it only has a shots of the exterior and one of the cabin. I'll scan them anyway if you need external views?

JimCooper · Post by **JimCooper** » 22 Jan 2007, 16:28

PhilipsCDRW wrote:
JimCooper wrote:
PhilipsCDRW wrote:This book, I think it was called "Flight Tests" or something similar, had some black-and-white photographs of the civilian 125 panel, showing things like the pressurisation panel and weather radar IIRC. I could get it over here and scan the pictures if they'd be remotely useful!
If Simshed are going to produce a HS125 then we'll need as much info as possible as Brian and I only have Dominie stuff!! Your offer is very much welcomed.

Regards

Jim
I'm very sorry Jim, this book isn't as I remember it; it only has a shots of the exterior and one of the cabin. I'll scan them anyway if you need external views?

Yes please, Very interested...many thanks

Regards

Jim

PhilipsCDRW · Post by **PhilipsCDRW** » 22 Jan 2007, 19:47

And it's a BAe 125/700, with the Garrett engines... oh dear, it gets further away from what I originally thought it was all the time!

I've scanned the complete article; it does include a textual description of the flightdeck on page 4. APU control was in the doorframe, for some odd reason...

[edit]Hmm, these pics are too big to comfortably display in {img} tags.

http://people.bath.ac.uk/jsd23/pics/dh125_1.JPG
http://people.bath.ac.uk/jsd23/pics/dh125_2.JPG
http://people.bath.ac.uk/jsd23/pics/dh125_3.JPG
http://people.bath.ac.uk/jsd23/pics/dh125_4.JPG
http://people.bath.ac.uk/jsd23/pics/dh125_5.jpg
http://people.bath.ac.uk/jsd23/pics/dh125_6.JPG

This is a shot of the panel of a Falcon 10. All the panels in the book looked vaguely like this; i.e. with cutting-edge (for 1982) CRT weather radars, chunky analogue HSIs, very non-digital radios etc... I thought it might be helpful to get the 'feel' of civil jet flightdecks in the early 80s.
http://people.bath.ac.uk/jsd23/pics/dh125_7.JPG

The book is "The Book of Flight Tests" by Alan Bransome. It should be called "The Which? Guide to Aircraft (under 10tonnes) 1983 Edition" in my opinion - he flies over 40 'general aviation' aircraft, from the C152 through the Robin R3140 and the Navajo to the BAe 125/700...

jonesey2k · Post by **jonesey2k** » 22 Jan 2007, 20:03

I wouldnt say no to an 800

PhilipsCDRW · Post by **PhilipsCDRW** » 22 Jan 2007, 20:15

I'll be happy with whatever I can get, Dominie/DH.125-wise - it's a lovely aeroplane, by all accounts (although the Viper-engined versions use as much fuel while taxying as the Garrett-engines ones use to cruise at 400kts...

) - but I have a hankering for something with the early-80s flight deck... I've grown up in the age of solid-state digital displays; to go back 25 years to the time where there were no electronic displays and all the instruments were incredibly complex electro-mechanical devices - this has a lot of fascination to me!