Michael Carter
11-21-2006, 08:55 PM
...or Boeing Skunk Works?
The throttle is finally cosmetically finished (except for the forgotten speed brake placquard...tomorrow). I affixed the last of the placquards today after getting a couple of new ink cartridges. I never realized how fast you can go through a full sized ink cartridge printing low res proof copies.
I'm pretty sure that this is the only scratch-build Boeing 727 throttle in existence. I wish that weren't so, but since there are probably less than a handful of serious analog-guage B727 sim builders and pilots in the whole world, I'm afraid it might be true. Most others whom can afford such a purchase of real Boeing surplus modify them pretty much the way I have my throttle set up with sliding pots and swivel joint ball rod ends.
Anyway, it was a lot of work, I learned a lot about the way Boeing builds what it builds and why, and I saved about $1K US in the process. I never knew you could do that with a Dremel!
Now if my Beta Innovations card would show up so I could get this thing off of the maintenance list.
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/263/finished8hi0.jpg
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/9372/finished5mu6.jpg
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/3758/finished4vt4.jpg
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/3854/finished7rw9.jpg
No shell yet, and probably won't ever have one with my space resrictions, but I will be able to build it eventually to the point that you won't be able to tell you are not actually on a Boeing 727 flight deck.
Several years yet but I'm getting there.
The throttle is finally cosmetically finished (except for the forgotten speed brake placquard...tomorrow). I affixed the last of the placquards today after getting a couple of new ink cartridges. I never realized how fast you can go through a full sized ink cartridge printing low res proof copies.
I'm pretty sure that this is the only scratch-build Boeing 727 throttle in existence. I wish that weren't so, but since there are probably less than a handful of serious analog-guage B727 sim builders and pilots in the whole world, I'm afraid it might be true. Most others whom can afford such a purchase of real Boeing surplus modify them pretty much the way I have my throttle set up with sliding pots and swivel joint ball rod ends.
Anyway, it was a lot of work, I learned a lot about the way Boeing builds what it builds and why, and I saved about $1K US in the process. I never knew you could do that with a Dremel!
Now if my Beta Innovations card would show up so I could get this thing off of the maintenance list.
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/263/finished8hi0.jpg
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/9372/finished5mu6.jpg
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/3758/finished4vt4.jpg
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/3854/finished7rw9.jpg
No shell yet, and probably won't ever have one with my space resrictions, but I will be able to build it eventually to the point that you won't be able to tell you are not actually on a Boeing 727 flight deck.
Several years yet but I'm getting there.