Bug found with SOW:BoB Hurricane cockpit

[jocko417]

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Undercarriage indicator should look like this:

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Note: not all are the same but I would expect the instrument face to say 12 VOLT, not WAIT.

A quick run through the first few pages of google image search seems to indicate that he is right. Here's another example that seems to prove it.

[zapatista]

from what i can see oleg's version says "WAIT" not WATT, one possible speculation is that maybe an earlier/later version of the same dial has a warning/reminder about the delay in moving gear up and down after activating the control ?

hopefully some experten here will have more factual knowledge on this

either way, i'd call that a very minor decorative issue, but well spotted

[KOM.Nausicaa]

Actually I think it's a double mistake. "WATT" is wrong, and it's wrongly written too, as "WAIT". It should be "VOLT".

[Skoshi Tiger]

There seems to be a bit of variation in dials used.

This is another undicarrage indicator that is advertised as an "original" Hurricane undercarrage indicator.



http://www.spitfirespares.com/Spitfi...truments2.html

You will notice that the arc at the top of the dial is not broken in the instrument modeled in the Hurricane, this would indicate to me that the indicator is of a different version to both types shown.

Cheers!

[Flying Pencil]

Could be another variant, but what it also glaringly obvious is lack of lamp illumination.

I think it very unlikely, at the moment of engaging the 111, the pilot decides to drop his gear.
The RED indicator should be glowing even slightly.

I think it is simply not working when this image was taken.

[jocko417]

Yes, as I said there were different varieties used, the one Skoshi posted appears to be a later version, but still in the style used by Hawker. I've seen similar ones with an extra light for the tail wheel as installed in later Hawker products like the Typhoon, Tempest, and Sea Fury.

My intent was not to say the instrument itself was wrong, just the label - I've never seen one marked "WAIT" so I assumed it was a typo. Any examples I've seen of the early indicator as used on the Mk.I Hurricane should say "12 VOLTS" at the bottom.

[Qpassa]

It should be corrected

[JtD]

None of the images posted so far resembles the indicator as shown in the Hurricane Mk.I pilot notes. The resolution of the cockpit photos is not good enough to say what the lines should say, but there's definitely just one line of text at the bottom.

[Dano]

Ignore...