XP-82 Twin Mustang Project

Systems

Electrical, Hydraulics, Instrumentation, etc.

Ammo belting

Ammo feed motors by Hughes Aircraft Company, Hollywood, CA

Carb air control assembly

Carb ram air quadrant assemblies

Electrical shelves

Co-pilot electrical panel

Governors

Hydraulic cylinders

Hydraulic components

Left-hand instrument panel

New silk-screened pilot and co-pilot panels with new lights, knobs and switches

Wiring pilot and co-pilot switch panels

Main gear up lock hook assemblies

Placards

The pilot's Cannon plug pedestal is on the left and 
the right-hand cockpit is on the right

Pedestal plugs before and after

Pilot and co-pilot Cannon plug pedestals

The new placards, trim wheels and canopy crank handles 
from our volunteer, Ken Friend

One of two main gear door hydraulic cylinders now installed

Left-hand landing gear retract/extension mechanism

Left-hand pulley tower, rudder balance cable and landing gear 
retract/extension forging and bellcrank installed

Landing gear and flap hydraulic lines and rudder balance cables 
that transition from left to right wheel wells

Main hydraulic control panel and left-hand landing gear mechanism

Main tire temporarily in place to confirm no hydraulic line interference

New elevator and rudder cables

Right-hand retract cylinder and over center spring lock-down

Right-hand wheel well with all of the landing gear mechanism installed; the four upper lines are right-hand to left-hand cockpit engine instrument lines prior to attaching

Left-hand gear door up-lock and the hydraulic lines prior to aligning and attaching. The lower lines are the fuel, oil and manifold pressure lines from the right-hand engine.

Left-hand wheel well, retract cylinder and some of the hydraulics

Wiring bundles on the co-pilot side. These wires transfer from the
pilot's side to the co=pilot's side all of the electrical controls, i.e.:
starters, primers, generators, instrument data, lighting, gear position, fuel pumps, shut-offs, supercharters, magnetos, gauges, inverters, etc.

Right-hand wheel well with the elevator and aileron cross-ship control tubes 
and the 1" fuel cross-feel line installed.

Right-hand (above) and left-hand (below) fuel cross-feed lines and cross-ship control tubes mounted to their idler brackets; landing gear and flap hydraulic lines installed.

The gear door retract cylinder, misc. instrument lines and fuel cross-feed lines 
are all attached with Adel clamps

Left-hand gear wheel well

Right-hand gear wheel well

Cross-ship control rods which link the aileron and elevator from pilot to co-pilot

Hydraulic dump valve is now installed 

We spent a day cutting and drilling all of the permanent phenolic hydraulic anti-vibration tubing blocks to replace the temporary Adel clamps where applicable.

We have installed the two N.O.S. C-4 fuel strainers

Terminal strips in each wheel well with the boost pump resistors 
below and in the background (below).