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1956
1956 - 0778.PDF
778 FLIGHT WESTLAND WYVERN 1 Compressed-air starter socket under. - 2 Air pipe-line to 3. 3 Starter. 4 Detachable inner cowling panels. 5 Crew safety-strap strongpoint. 6 Drive-shaft to auxiliaries. 7 Auxiliaries gearbox (twogenerators, compressor, hydraulic pumps). 8 Cooling air to auxiliaries. • Cool air intake and extraction, second generator. 10 Engine mounting ring. 11 Intake to oil-cooler (port and st'b'd). 12 Oil-cooler flap actuator (flap on under-surface). 13 Cooling air to underside of cockpit floor. 14 Accelerator-hooks on front spar. 15 Firewall. 16 Engine fire suppression bottle. 17 Jet-pipe fire suppression bottle. IS Wheel-brakes pneumatic bottle. 19 Warm air duct to gun bays. 28 Engine controls. 21 Armour bulkhead. 22 Gravity fuel-fillers. 23 Slinging point. 24 Pilot's cool air. 25 Windscreen warm air. 26 Windscreen wiper. 27 E2A compass. 28 Mk 46 retractable gun-sight. 29 Fuel tank connectors access panel.30 External hood-release. 31 Control column. 32 Rudder pedals. 33 Kick-in steps. 34 Cruciform-braced centre-section. 35 Torpedo (now fuel tank) mounting beam.36 Radio/Radar. 37 Gyrosyn master unit. 38 Two 12v 40 a.h. batteries. 19 Main electrical panels. 40 Oxygen bottles. 41 Camera windows. 42 Camera mounting rails and carrier. 43 Constructional break-line. 44 Pressure-refuelling control box and indicator lights. FUEL. 95 Imp. gal REVISED SCREEN MARTIN-BAKER Mk AND CANOPY EJECTOR SEAT TWO-PtECE COWLING WTTH BUILT-IN WALKWAYS ENGINE AIR INTAKE (REVERSE-FLOW UNIT) CENTRE-SECTION AIR BRAKE ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY PYTHON ASP3 TURBOPROP, DRIVING CONTRA-ROTATING. CONSTANT-SPEED ROTOL AIRSCREWS, 13ft dra DOWTY LEVER-SUSPENSION MAIN UNDERCARRIAGE (DUNLOP TYRES. WHEELS. BRAKES) 150 qal PHENOLIC- AStfSTOS VENTRAL TANK LAMINAF R/P RAIL Standard strike circraft of the Fleet Air Arm, the Wyvern S.4, here depicted for the first time in detail, is the only turboprop aircraft of its class in service, its American counterpart, the Douglas Skyshark, having been abandoned—primarily owing to powerplant difficulties.
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