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PostPosted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:47 am 
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What is this black box located on the floor between the rudder pedals? (circled in red) TIA

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Pilot Destruct Charge, but it's a secret...




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Its the fuel pump suppressor


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PostPosted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 2:33 am 
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Pilot Destruct Charge, but it's a secret...

That wasn't a very good guess JDK :roll: :). Back to your Hurricane referance books I think. :wink:

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 7:53 am 
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A red circle. :wink:

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 8:56 am 
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You have all been very helpful, thanks. And yet, I still don't know what it is. :shock:


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Judging by what looks like a Co-axial cable going into the box, it is certainly a modern piece of equipment. Might be transponder, GPS, radio etc.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:34 pm 
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It really is the fuel pump suppressor! Part number 5C/870 for what its worth!!

Not modern at all, and an original fit part.

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Bruce wrote:
It really is the fuel pump suppressor! Part number 5C/870 for what its worth!!

Not modern at all, and an original fit part.

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Hi C VIECH......As Bruce stated.....it is an original fit electrical system fuel pump suppressor. Nothing modern about it at all. Looks like Spifire MK V BL628's cockpit.

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Thank you very much gents, much appreciated!


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So....what....That's it? a nice photo of a black box in a read circle on the floor of a Spit, and no photo of the aircraft, what a teaser..... :axe:

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'oh, there's curtains in the windows, and it's all red and white...it sort of looks like a big Tylenol....' :lol:

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gary1954 wrote:
So....what....That's it? a nice photo of a black box in a read circle on the floor of a Spit, and no photo of the aircraft, what a teaser..... :axe:


Sorry Gary, don't mean to be a tease! That is a photo I found on the net and I don't even know which airframe it is.

Now, to muddy up the waters a bit more. An Internet friend of mine happens to work closely with the Aircraft Restoration Company at Duxford. He took the question to them and they have categorically stated that it is not original wartime equipment. Hard to argue with folks who restore Spitfires for a living! This same gentleman also posed the question to an ex-Spitfire combat pilot who also confirmed that it was never in any Mark of Spitfire he flew. However, I don't know which Marks that may have been.


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Its a fuel Pump suppressor like Bruce and JoeSmith have stated.


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