Sopwith Camel Joystick movement

[MollyMaguire]

Hello All:

I’m still tinkering with my WW1 controls. Appealing to any WW1 RoF / FC (or John Shaw actual builder type) guys:

Can anybody make a rough estimate of how many degrees the stick moves fore-and-aft and side-to-side to ‘full stop’.

THanks

[Hangar200]

I cannot. However, I think there have been a few WW I aircraft control sticks that folks have made…they might have some specs.

[Bearhedge]

You could try http://www.thevintageaviator.co.nz/contact, they restore and manufacture WWI aircraft here in NZ.

[Troll]

Or Montrose Air Station. They have built a Camel replica and should know, or be able to check.
https://rafmontrose.org.uk/

[Hangar200]

They are closed right now (COVID19) but I’m sure they wouldn’t mind if @Troll hopped over, scaled the fence, jumped into the Sopwith cockpit and started banging the control stick back and forth…in the interest of science.

[wheelsup_cavu]

Lol @Hangar200, the old better to ask for forgiveness than permission theory.

Wheels

[MollyMaguire]

let me know if you need bail money…

[Troll]

@Hangar200

closed right now

For visitors. There are staff answering their facebook page…

[Hangar200]

They can do that from home…I say go for it and jump the fence! Meanwhile I’ll begin a Kickstarter for the bail money.

[Bearhedge]

Years ago (I was in my early twenties IIRC) I took a week off uni to go to Portugal with my parents. I saw in a brochure somewhere that there was an aviation museum outside the city, so I took the train there.

I got there and I was literally the only person in the museum, apart from the sleepy looking employee eating his sandwich at the ticket office.

The museum was good, though - but what was a bit bizarre was that the Spitfire they had was practically hidden in a faraway hangar corner, rather than the grand stand you’d kind of expect.

The cockpit was open and the only obstacles between her and the public were a couple of Merlin engine blocks placed a few feet apart.

I looked around and decided that this moment was definitely a gift from above and I shouldn’t waste it. I spent the next 10 minutes sitting in the Spit cockpit in the silent hangar, grinning like an idiot the whole time, before climbing out unnoticed.

[ScoopD]

Shuttleworth Collection is the definitive source of knowledge in UK as well as the best place to fly in to. Free landings, pay for the museum. They have a wonderful free research/reference library called ‘Project Bleriot’ and amongst others fly various Sopwith types including a Camel.
https://www.shuttleworth.org/bleriotarchive/

[Victork2]

And a cracking bird sanctuary as well

[MigBuster]

LOL Alan Partridge!