Friday 2010-10-22 Dev. update and Discussion

[JtD]

Originally Posted by jocko417

The knob on the shorter one should be mounted on the outside of the lever, the long one has it's knob on the inside and is correct. I think the levers do share the same slot but slide beside one another, with the knob on the short one moved to the outside it won't interfere with the other lever. Good find.

No, it's not. And the pictures from your book do not show an original Hurricane I. And I thought there was a rule on this forum that prohibited the distribution of false information.

The knobs both need to be on the inside, and the levers both need to be in the same slot. The mixture lever (the "shorter one") is in the left half of the slot, the throttle lever (the "longer one") on the right half. The knob on the mixture lever is mounted on the inside in order to protrude behind the throttle lever, so that the mixture is automatically set to "rich" as the throttle is closed. And that is, as I have said already, wrong with the mixture control, as the "weak" and "rich" positions are in the opposite places.

A few more bugs with the Hurricane I cockpit
- it had no rudder bias control in the cockpit.
- it had no supercharger control, but a fuel cut out in its place
- it had a hydraulic pressure gauge
- it had a different safety catch for the hydraulic selector lever
- it had a hydraulic control lever

Furthermore, I don't think windscreen de-icing was on board during BoB, and the rudder pedals look IIish to me. But maybe it is supposed to be an Mk. II cockpit, and Oleg was just telling us that we will also have a Hurricane II in BoB.