Better tune up those guessers!

[geneb]

Here's a test part for a project I'm looking into. You're going to have to be one hell of an airplane nerd to identify this. I'll give you a hint - it's for a WWII era fighter.

[img]http://www.geneb.org/images/casting.jpg[/img]



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[mhackney]

Is it a bushing/mounting plate for a pushrod, perhaps for the rudder or stabilizer?

[geneb]

Nope.

NEXT!

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[KAS]

mount for a flight yoke?

[bot]

Antenna mount

[Khalid Khattak]

Don't know about the crafts but i like the neatness of the printed part

[Tonkabot]

It holds a checklist (or something) at either a landscape or upright position.

[Eaglezsoar]

Some sort of gun mount?

[Eric]

Bracket for a cockpit light? Probably UV if so.

[oklok]

Wow nice quality on your picture

[barry99705]

Bracket for a cockpit light? Probably UV if so.

I think you mean IR, and light mounts are way smaller on aircraft.

This looks kinda like an engine bulkhead mount, but that's not quite right either.

[Mac The Knife]

Bracket for a cockpit light? Probably UV if so.

I think you mean IR, and light mounts are way smaller on aircraft.

This looks kinda like an engine bulkhead mount, but that's not quite right either.

I was going to go with a seat mount in a P 51, until I looked closer at the at the picture of the cockpit.

[precisionpete]

I'm going with umbrella holder.

[Eric]

Bracket for a cockpit light? Probably UV if so.

I think you mean IR, and light mounts are way smaller on aircraft.

This looks kinda like an engine bulkhead mount, but that's not quite right either.

No, I meant UV, since WW2 era was specified and most instruments didn't have integral lighting. A dimmable UV light was used to fluoresce the paint on the instruments for night-flying. Radium paint had a dim glow of its own, but it brightened up nicely under UV light. Also, radium paint was used less late in the war (in some air forces, anyway), as there were cheaper paints that would also fluoresce under UV. Most of us have had fun with blacklight and paint at some point in our lives.

[Khalid Khattak]

A motor mount?

[barry99705]

Bracket for a cockpit light? Probably UV if so.

I think you mean IR, and light mounts are way smaller on aircraft.

This looks kinda like an engine bulkhead mount, but that's not quite right either.

No, I meant UV, since WW2 era was specified and most instruments didn't have integral lighting. A dimmable UV light was used to fluoresce the paint on the instruments for night-flying. Radium paint had a dim glow of its own, but it brightened up nicely under UV light. Also, radium paint was used less late in the war (in some air forces, anyway), as there were cheaper paints that would also fluoresce under UV. Most of us have had fun with blacklight and paint at some point in our lives.

Cool! I didn't know that!

[DavidF]

Its Green....

[nitewatchman]

A Cockpit Relief Tube Mount from a P-51E Variant produced by North American between June 26th, 1944 and August 5th, 1945.

[geneb]

I'll give you a hint - it's German.

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[teoman]

Stuka?

[geneb]

[img]http://www.geneb.org/109k/new-build-panel.jpg[/img]

Now, which airplane? (and no fair looking at the image source. )

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[jdurand]

Cigar holder?

Lamp for dash instruments?

That's an older plane than even my father flew, so haven't see the inside of one.

[Tonkabot]

I cheated. There is a clue in the image name, and from there an easy guess to plane model number, and from there google images shows plenty of photos.

It's a holder for something (it seems many figured that out)

Anyway I didn't know they existed back then. does it actively show info like a modern one?

[jdurand]

Radio direction finder readout? You'd need a loop outside the plane with a crank or motor to turn it?

No, that should be built in like the other gauges.

Amelia Earhart with her loop
[img]http://timeandnavigation.si.edu/sites/d ... 1055qm.jpg[/img]

[geneb]

It's a mount for a Revi 16D reflector gunsight.

Tonkabot - Reflector gunsights are very simple devices. All it does is project a collimated image of a target reticle on the glass. Here's an excellent write up on how they work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflector_sight

At some point I'll be printing a gunsight as well.

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