Anyone ID this control stick grip???
 

I picked this up at a gun show maybe 20 years ago...Seller had no idea what it was...me neither...

Top button has a "B"; side button is unmarked, but is clearly an add-on, as it covers lettering...Trigger is momentary contact...

Possibly military...but not very sophisticated...not enough functions...maybe very old...

I mounted it to this pedestal...It had a plate saying "Too close for missiles...Switching to guns" on it, but it got lost somewhere...

It had enough functions when I was using it. Or one like it.

Camera? Winch? Auto-pilot? :confused:

Piston-driven airplane? Helicopter? Blimp??? :rolleyes:

Im guessing its a joystick out of a early plane made by the naval aircraft factory, they made alot of early pontoon airplanes. JMWAG c

It very closely resembles a T-28C stick. One button for radio, the second for intercom to the other cockpit. Trigger self expainitory.

http://www.woodwaysigns.com/t-28/for_sale.htm

Little known facts: The word blimp comes from the classification of airships. Rigid or limp. Class 'A' rigid, e.g.. the Akron, or class B, limp. B-limp.

Blimps were affectionately called 'Poopy Bags'. Did you know that you can do a roll in a blimp? They are called 'bag overs',

Remember to reduce power at the top of a bag-over or you'll get a hiss-out.

One of my instructors was an old Poopy Bagger.

LOL

FN

I had a very close friend who's father was a gunner on a Navy Patrol Blimp during WWII.

He said that he always had the feeling that the Navy didn't like him, and stuck him on it knowing that they wouldn't have to pay him for very long. He also said that the only reason they put machine guns on it was so that you could try to get even on the way down.