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
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I cannot. However, I think there have been a few WW I aircraft control sticks that folks have made…they might have some specs.
You could try http://www.thevintageaviator.co.nz/contact, they restore and manufacture WWI aircraft here in NZ.
Or Montrose Air Station. They have built a Camel replica and should know, or be able to check.
https://rafmontrose.org.uk/
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. 
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let me know if you need bail money…
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For visitors. There are staff answering their facebook page…
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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. 
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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. 
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