Navigation Display
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AN5851-1
A-14 Sextant
Bought in January '06, this Sextant is
almost perfect and fully functioning. A horizon prism permits its use as a
marine sextant. It came complete with its original carrying case.
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Flight
Calculators
Donated to us by Kim Roland of the 100th BG Foundation, these two flight calculators were used by his dad, John Henry Rowland, in the 418th BS, 100th Bomb Group, flying from Thorpe Abbotts in 1944 and completing 29 missions during which time he became a PFF crew AN/APS-15 Radar operator.
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Bubble
Sextant Mk IXA Donated to the display by Tony Brier is this Air Ministry Bubble Sextant Mk IXA. It's beginning to show its age, but the clockwork mechanism still works. |
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Navigational
Computers MkIII This pair of Navigational Computers were also donated by Tony.
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Type
6A Compass
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Navigators
Case Here is Stuarts original Navigators Brief case. The stitching all had to be re-sewn due to age turning the thread to powder.
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Navigators
Manuals Below left is an original Navigators Information File detailing all aspects of a navigators duties from Navigation to emergency procedures. Below right is the A-14 Sextant Manual showing its operation, maintenance and parts breakdown.
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Air
Maps
Stuart has several original maps of France and Holland. Some are quite fragile so colour copies are used for display at events, keeping the originals safe to re-copy.
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Navigation Display Here is a display of all the equipment at an event at the National Railway Museum, Shildon.
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