Welcome to Rochester Avionic Archives - a large collection of avionic hardware items together with an archive of films, documents, videos, brochures and newspapers.
The oldest item is a Slide Rule from 1894 but the majority of the items are of mid to late 20th century origin. The emphasis is on equipment made or relevant to the Rochester site and the work of Elliott Bros, Marconi and BAE Systems| although there are some items which have gained a place purely because of their interest value. Find out more about the Rochester Avionic Archives >>|
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Latest Addition to our Archives:
British Airways Award
Certificate reads: High Flyers 2001 Delivery Performance British Airways Engineering Supply Chain would like to recognise BAE SYSTEMS ...... read more >>Search all Platforms
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Below is a taster of what we've got archived in our Collection. There's much, much more besides this - please click here to view all the categories
Projected Map
A Map is the best way of assimilating the aircraft’s horizontal situation especially if the route, times and waypoints can be superimposed. An electronic map is presented...
Sticks and Throttles
Pilots control their aircraft with the use of Sticks and Pedals. Typically, a throttle controls the power, a central joystick controls the aircraft attiyude (directly linked...
Stores Management
This covers the programming and ordered release of weapons held on the aircraft. The Collection includes the Tornado Weapon Programming Unit (WPU): This is the main computer...
Test Equipment
Every piece of fielded equipment will require manufacturing and support test equipment and the production of such items is a vital and much overlooked item. The Test Equipment...
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The Collection
The Collection include Displays, Air Data Computers, Inertial Navigation Units, Flight Controls & Instruments, Circuit Modules, Sticks & Throttles & a miscellany of Company memorabilia.
Media Archive
This Media Archive offers newspapers, films and videos.
Document Archive
This is a small archive with no particular relevance to Elliotts but nevertheless it contains some interesting books of a technical nature or on aircraft and flight. Books include a truly fascinating Royal Flying Corps Pilot Cadets handbook from pre WWI. There is an even earlier book by Claude Graham-White and an amazingly futuristic book on Automation by Leon Bagrit.
Picture Archive
This archive contains the collection of Framed Pictures Negatives and 35mm Slides. There are too many Negatives and Slides to list at this stage.