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Stephens collective (the "throttle" for helicopters).
This is the top part that houses switches for fuel cutoff, engine start, landing light, and trim.
 
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Lots of hot glue :-)
The part with the yellow gear wheel is turnable to control engine rpm. Its a PVC pipe on a PVC pipe on a metal pipe...
 
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The potentiometer and the gear wheels.
 
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Here you can see the outer PVC pipe (the one thats turnable for engine control) the inner one and the metal pipe inside that one.
 
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Many cockpit builders have found out that the red switch guards as found on real airplanes are very expensive. Stephen made a small version himself. This switch is the fuel cutoff switch on the collective.
 
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guard opened
 
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closing
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