Crash Relic: Pitot Tube, Luftwaffe Bf 109 P-3 Orion Mounted within the ball turret

Mounted within the ball turret at the right foot of the ball turret gunner (see photo)

the gyromagnetic compass so that the heading of the aircraft can be read continously on the course dial under the heading pointer

The knob rotates and the card turns as it should

This is the body of a Navigational Compass as used in aircraft of France

It is a large instrument

Crash Relic: Pitot Tube, Luftwaffe Bf 109 P-3 Orion Mounted within the ball turretHere is a WWII era aircraft Pitot Tube crash relic, as used in aircraft of the German Luftwaffe such as the Bf 109 Fighter, and recovered from a crash site in Poland. Typically mounted on the wing of the aircraft, the pitot tube was employed by pitot statically driven instruments to perform their function, e. g., airspeed indicator, vertical velocity rate of climb indicators, and altimeters by measuring the differential pressure across two orifices as