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Here's a challenge for you U.S. WW2 aircraft fans.......

Navy Chief

Navy Chief

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Ok.

My retired Master Chief buddy at the Naval Aviation Museum Tech Library has a aircraft part that he has, so far, been able to accurately identify which type of aircraft it belonged to.

I told him there was a better than good chance that someone on this forum will know! NC

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I went down the F8F rabbit hole, but I'm was trying to guess before the warbird experts post up! Maybe a new game NC? Take a pic from the mx hangar at NNAM with a random part.
 
Victory103 said:
I went down the F8F rabbit hole, but I'm was trying to guess before the warbird experts post up! Maybe a new game NC? Take a pic from the mx hangar at NNAM with a random part.
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Well, when the museum ever opens again! Still closed  NC

On a different subkect, Victory103, there still isn't a fix for the Aerosoft Tomcat AB effect missing in P3DV5, darn it!
 
Navy Chief said:
Ok.

My retired Master Chief buddy at the Naval Aviation Museum Tech Library has a aircraft part that he has, so far, been able to accurately identify which type of aircraft it belonged to.

I told him there was a better than good chance that someone on this forum will know! NC



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Hi all.

I am neither a pilot nor a panel guru, but when I saw this the schematic-sort of representation of the aircraft rang some sort of a bell. So I've had a look through some books but nothing as yet on that one.

However, I notice that this panel has 2 clocks set side-by-side - I'm sure I've never seen that before and can't think why you'd have it. Therefore if there's a question over one of the instruments, I'm wondering if any of them were originally on this piece of panel?? If you look at the overlay (?) piece it says "radio altimeter 'on' and 'range' switches inoperative", but the instrument that would appear above this legend as fitted is clearly not a radio altimeter. Indeed the flaps/wheel indicator really doesn't look like it belongs in the hole to which it been fitted.

The clock on the lower left is a close match for the one illustrated in Eric Brown's "Wings of the navy", p.334 as being from a Royal Navy FAA FGA-1 Phantom. Of course it a simple generic clock so it could have been fitted into any number of aircraft.

I haven't seen a match for any of the other instruments so far.

Hope this helps,

cheers,

SW.
 
The larger clock is a 24-hour clock I don't think I've ever seen in any aircraft's instrument panel - unless that aircraft was going to be airborne a long time. This isn't the entire panel by any means and there's no telling how large the whole assemblage would have been although maybe we could guess by looking at the curve of the top of the panel at the left side of the photo. To me this appears to be from a multi-engine panel, and the 24-hour clock may indicate it could have been in a transport or patrol bomber of some kind.
 
Navy Chief said:
Ok.

My retired Master Chief buddy at the Naval Aviation Museum Tech Library has a aircraft part that he has, so far, been able to accurately identify which type of aircraft it belonged to.
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Not much to go on Chief, but ASI shows 700 mph range? Not knots, which is a little strange. Maybe some type of prototype large airplane in early jet era - P6M, etc
 
I heard back from the Master Chief. He didn't offer any more information on the gauges. So for now, I am guessing we are at a standstill. Thanks all. NC
 
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