Compass, Aperiodic, US Army Air Force Type D-12 NOS Short Sunderland This specimen of the WWII-era

This specimen of the WWII-era Model 2 Sensitive Altimeter is made by Tanaka for aircraft of the Japanese Navy

which is still in our possession but no worse for wear

These systems were put into use on the Northrup F-89 Scorpion and Lockheed F-94 Starfire Fighter/Interceptors in the 1950's

in the magnetic field of a rotary coil is mounted

they amassed a defensive armored force that numbered over 800 tanks by 1945

Compass, Aperiodic, US Army Air Force Type D-12 NOS Short Sunderland This specimen of the WWII-eraThe US Army Air Force Type D 12 Direct Reading Aperiodic Compass was used at the navigators station across many US WWII aircraft, including heavy bombers B 17, B 24, B 29, medium bombers B 25 and B 26, and transports C 46, C 47, and C 54. Made by Bendix, part number 1832 1 A, it has a serial number prefix of AF 43, indicative of a manufacturing year 1943. This compass is New Old Stock and is in its original box with matching serial numbers, a real