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1956
1956 - 0361.PDF
30 March 1956 999 1 Varley 24v 2SA/H lightweight battery. 2 Booster pump ground-test socket and switch. 3 Flexibly mounted instrument panel carrying blind-flying instruments, fuel contents, engine and trans- mission oil temps., engine and rotor tachometers, boost, cyl. head temp., warning lights for fire, generator failure and fuel pump. 4 Parking-brake handle and cable. 5 Clutch override control. 6 Dual collective-pitch/throttle levers. 7 Dual cyclic-pitch control-columns (port carries four-directional trim switch). 8 Dual tail-rotor-pitch rudder con- trols (with heel-deflecting safety block). • Radio. P.T.R. 61 (Mk 11), A.62 (Mk 10). 10 Electric trimming actuators (cyclic- lateral and cyclic fore-and-aft). 11 Fuel and oil on/off cock. 12 Rotor-brake handle with safety cord across No. 13 items. 13 Cartridge starter toggle, Ki-gass primer and on/off cock. 14 EXA magnetic compass. 15 Door jettison handles. 1e Collective and cyclic-pitch control linkages. 17 Main-rotor control spider and spindle. IS Rotor shaft enclosing blade pitching- moment compensator. 19 Drag-hinge friction dampers. 20 Pitch-change drop arms. 21 Lifting eye. 22 Blade-spacing snubbers. 23 Ground-set tracking tab. 24 Brass mass-balanced leading edge. 25 Centrifugal clutch directly mounted on crankshaft. 26 Intermediate drive-shaft, primary to secondary gearbox. 27 Rotor-drive ring gear. 28 Rotor tachometer generator. 2s Engine and gearbox mounting beam. 30 Engine cooling duct. 31 Oil cooler. 32 Oil cooler airflow. 33 Oil drains collector tank (from fan). 34 Double-belt driving fan. 35 Rotor brake. • M Expanded-metal panels. 37 Tail-rotor shaft flexible coupling. 38 Step. 3? Picketing ring. 40 Navigation lights. 41 Oleo-leg filler. 42 Boom bolted to primary tubular structure at five points. 43 Tail-rotor shaft bearings and inspec- tion panels. 44 External boom-stiffeners. 45 Angle gearbox oil filler. 44 Tail-rotor pitch cables. 47 "See-saw"-hinged tail rotor. 48 Captain's seat (port seat reversible in A.O.P. Mk 10). 4? Pressure head. 50 Whip aerial. 32ft dia MAIN ROTOR (MAX. R.P.M. 336). BLADE SECTION NAC-. 23017. STEEL- TUBE SPAR. WOOD RIBS. FABRIC COVERED The D.H. Gipsy Major 201 engine of 200 b.h.p. will power three types of Skeeter; the Mk 6 civil version, the Mk 10 A.O.P. and the Mk 11 R.A.F. trainer (in military types the engine is known as Gipsy Major 130). This cutaway drawing is representative of the Mk 11. LIGHTWEIGHT DOORS. WITH SLIDING WINDOWS SECONDARY REDUCTION GEARBOX CRASHPROOF FUEL TANK. 23 Imp. gal. 100030 oct. PALMER TYRES. WHEELS AND (PARKING) BRAKES FORCED-DRAUGHT COOLING FAN
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