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Aircraft Compass - D.12, Bendix Aviation Corporation, USAAF, 1940 Object Reg. No: ST 023135

Compass
Summary:
Type D.12 course-setting aircraft compass (serial no. Z-4511) made by Bendix Aviation Corporation, Eclipse Pioneer Division at Teterboro, New Jersey. Dated 1940 with a luminised grid. This type of compass was used for primary navigation by large USAAF aircraft such as the Boeing B17 Flying Fortress. This example was used by Australian National Airways.
Description:
round course-setting aircraft compass
Acquisition Information:
Donation from Australian National Airways Pty Ltd (ANA), 1949
Discipline: Technology

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Tagged with: compasses, aeronautical instruments
Themes this item is part of: Transport Collection
Primary Classification: AIR TRANSPORT
Secondary Classification: Aircraft
Tertiary Classification: components - navigation instrumentation
Model Name/Number: D.12
Place & Date Made: New Jersey, United States of America, circa 1940
User: Australian National Airways (ANA), Australia, 1940-1949

Comments

Kim Hendrickson Posted on 12 Mar 2011 3:41 PM
My father worked for Bendix for 45 years and worked on the guidance systems and I believe that Bendix was located in Teterboro not Peterboro, New Jersey.
Discovery Centre Posted on 27 Apr 2011 4:21 PM
Museum Victoria Comment
Hi Kim, thanks for picking up that typo, which we've now corrected.

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