Sextant, Aircraft Periscopic, MS28011-5 Vickers F-80 Shooting Star

F-80 Shooting Star

This is a vintage Cold-War-era Outboard Wing Tank Fuel Quantity Indicator

This gyro is a non-tumbling vertical reference which supplies signals in proportion to the roll and pitch of the aircraft

The screws on the panel show a bit of surface rust

This is its first printing

Sextant, Aircraft Periscopic, MS28011-5 Vickers F-80 Shooting StarThis is a Cold War era Periscopic Aircraft Sextant and Case, as used by navigators in aircraft of the US Air Force such as B 36 Peacemaker, B 47 Stratojet, B 50 Superfortress, B 52 Stratofortress, and of the US Navy such as the P2V Neptune and others. The periscopic sextant was used by navigators to fix and track the position of the aircraft in flight, usually by nighttime celestial (star) readings, but also by the position of the sun in daylight. The