Author Topic: Pictures with my new camera (Read 439 times)

Golfer · « **Reply #15 on:** July 15, 2007, 02:44:11 AM »

The upside down insturment is an accelerometer...a "G" meter. Tells you how many +/- G's you're pulling and also has a mechanical needle that stays put on the highest/lowest mark until manually reset.

The radial Pitts is a Model 12. It's designed to be used with a 400hp Vedeneyev engine. Pretty much cream of the crop as Pitts' designs go. I've got a poster of a Model 14 but I have never even seen one completed if it even made it that far.

If you look real close at the tails of each Model 12 you can see it says as much in small block lettering.

AKIron · « **Reply #16 on:** July 15, 2007, 10:20:15 AM »

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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Why is that one guage upside down?

So you can read it when you're flying upside down, duh.

Nice pics.

Kermit de frog · « **Reply #17 on:** July 15, 2007, 11:53:52 AM »

Is it upside down on purpose so as to not confuse it with another gauge?

CyranoAH · « **Reply #18 on:** July 15, 2007, 11:58:44 AM »

Most G gauges don't go all the way to -10G, so normally Sukhois mount one upwards and one downwards.

Sukhois are the only aerobatic airplanes that can go +-10G without a thorough inspection afterwards.

You have to tighten the bolts on the Vendeneyev M14PF after every couple of flights, but that's another story

Daniel