Here is my new clock/track timer. It's out of a Soviet mig fully mechanical no wiring needed
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All you need now is an air speed indicator

Dah, Aviatorski alzo!

I think I've probably seen those in some MIGs on static display at various SoCal Airshows a couple of times since the `60's - well no Migs til the `80's - but don't recall picking one out as such specifically, on their panels.

Which model & era MIG is it out of?

Very cool!
Tom
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Frankly, I think he needs the Attitude Indicator first - judging by his pic above!


Tom
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I should install a pitot tube

And one of those vintage aircraft air driven generators for the other instruments!

Tom, do you know which MIG it came out of??


Tom
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he needs an artificial horizon.... he might be able to fly level then

I couldn't say for sure it was made in the late 60s I'm sure there are quite a few models it could have been used with

Funny you mentioned an Altimeter! I have one I carry in the Porsche. Do you have an aircraft compass? Got one of those too. Broke my air speed indicator in a vertical climb, spin, and stall at 25,000 feet in the 914! OH! Was that the nightmare the other night?L)L!!

Seriously, I do have a WWII compompass installed in the the 914 and have a Altimeter in the Glove Box. Now I NEED THE CLOCK/TIMER!

Love Aviation stuff

Steve hurt
A&P FAA Licensed

Elleeut fly's. I think he has a sopwith camel or was that snoopy?

Last year I saw a 747 clock on ebay. It came from N502UP. I thought it looked familiar so I checked back in my log book and I had flown that very airplane. Like a dummy I didn't buy it. I've seen the MIG clocks sometimes on ebay as well.

UPS eh?

Must have been nice flying cargo instead of passengers. A package can't complain when you drop on to the runway

I like that, looks good!

That's sharp! Its functional and goes very well with the other instruments in the dash.

I love these old military clocks.

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I have several in my collection including a Swiss-made Jaeger LeCoultre Chronograph:

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It was built for the Russian military in the 1930's
(who would have thought they could afford it?)
& you see them in eBay every once in a while:

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This chronograph, in it's original Swiss version, is
sometimes found in elegant & expensive touring cars
in the 1930's, like John Mozart's 1937 Alfa Romeo's
8C 2900B Touring Spyder (a Pebble Concours winner):

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And also some post-war rally cars!

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The OP's piece looks terrific & seems to be a Russian-made
(Wostok) version of a Swiss Jaeger LeCoultre 'Chronoflite'.
It was used in the Mig 15 (Korean War era) & beyond.
You can see an early version on this Mig 15 cockpit:

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It is more common & affordable to purchase that the earlier Swiss made Jaegers:

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Saludos,
Eduardo
Scottsdale, AZ
but currently in NJ



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Hi neighbor!

How did you get a black widow in your shift knob? Asking because I want one with a grasshopper. Sorry, it's off the topic.

I've been collecting WWII bomber gauges for my project....

I thought I already said that!?

"An attitude indicator (AI), also known as gyro horizon or artificial horizon or attitude director indicator (ADI, when it has a Flight Director), is an instrument used in an aircraft to inform the pilot of the orientation of the aircraft relative to Earth's horizon"


Tom
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They used to sell those cast resin knobs with Black Widows, etc. for VWs etc. back in the 1960's & 70's & were sorta common on Meyers Manxs & Dune Buggies too.

You could probably custom mold one with a Grasshopper for yours, & then use a strong adhesive to mount it to a proper metal mounting collar from another old used 914 shift knob at reasonable cost.


Tom
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The spider is real a red back spider a guy in Australia collects them and makes shift knobs . Customredback.com .he might take requests

Rob - that would be cool to mount something from a B-24 in your Dad's car!

You could probably modify an old 914 ashtray with a VDO 2 Gauge Mount over where the dash buffer piece goes onto the ashtray for an easily put back to stock mount for 1-2 gauges from the B24 like your Dad flew.


Tom
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Love it very cool!!!!!

Vysoc

Very cool.. I remember a 66 912 my dad once had that came with a altimeter .. It was factory installed.

Exactly. It would be great to find a yoke as well..

A little off the path, but Stoli Russian Vodka used to campaign a pair of MIG jets painted in Stoli Red for advertising. When we saw the two Stoli MIGS at the Reno Air Races years ago, the two jets looked sharp from a distance. But if you got up close and looked down along the fuselage, their metal body panels looked like they were hammered out individually on an anvil with a sledge hammer. (Maybe they were). The MIG body panels were so bumpy from one to the next that it made our USA jets look like they were machined out of a single billet of steel. I think Ivan's strategy has always been quantity over quality. But I guess the bumps helped the airflow over the MIGS, as they flew beautifully!
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That probably came in handy to re-jet the carbs if you lived or went to high altitude mountain areas often!


Tom
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Actually Curtis, from what an old Korean War F-86 pilot I knew had said (now deceased), it was that lesser build quality wrinkled skin that gave our slicker aerodynamically F-86 Sabre Jets an edge over those MIG-15s - as well as the use of the full unit stabilators (replaced the earlier fixed horizontal stabilizers with elevators) on the later F-86s resolving the dive & high speed maneuverability problem.

Yes, they were more crudely semi-hand made aircraft, at lower cost than any of ours of that era.

I think that the actor Michael Dorn who played Worf on Startrek TNG has/had a later MIG (17 or a trainer IIRC) which he flew, & was at some of the Miramar NAS/MCAS air shows with it back in the 90's.

Cool Pic!
Tom
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Hi Tom, I agree, but the wrinkled skin might act like dimples on a golf ball, but not compared to our slick hardware. I think you could buy used Russian MIGs for very cheap, the cost was to maintain and fly them.

Uuuumm. Drop WHAT on the runway??

An interesting thing about the MIG. You can see a broad white stripe painted on the instrument panel. If the airplane went into a spin, you were to place the control stick over that stripe. And hope for the best.

Well not for the Russians, Chinese & other "Red" countries - they probably still have warehouses full of parts over there, & they were made "rough & ready" to be maintained & repaired on dirt strips with minimal facilities.

Kinda like the AK47 of the air - not so pretty but works most of the time & cheap/easy to repair - compared to our higher tech & tighter tolerances stuff.

Geez, their "lesser allies" were still flying them at the time of the break-up!


Tom
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Hey Tom, isn't part of Ivan's strategy always been quantity over quality, whether it's men or machines?

Masses of T34s stopped Hitler's Blitzkrieg on the Steppes - & before that, they just threw millions of people at them!


Tom
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Those only work when the ball is spinning. If the MiG is spinning, it has other things to worry about...

--DD