Autopilot P-1 Set: Gyro Horizon and Turn & Bank Indicators US Navy AD-4 Skyraider Pre-WW2

Autopilot P-1 Set: Gyro Horizon and Turn & Bank Indicators US Navy AD-4 Skyraider Pre-WW2Here is a pair of components to the Bendix P 1 Autopilot System as used in US Navy aircraft of the 1950's. Included are one Gyro Horizon Indicator and one Turn and Bank Indicator. Each has a US Navy Pensacola service label from the 1960's, and a IRAN (Inspect And Repair as Necessary) label from the 1970's, likely when they were removed from the aircraft. The Bendix P 1 Autopilot system was used in several US Navy aircraft during the 1950's and saw

The receiver function tunes from 200-1750 kHz across 3 bands

The artifact is labeled as a war bring-back as having been extracted from a JU-88

PBY Catalina

1718-2S-A2 for the Air Corps US Army

Once turned and removed

Also see the photo of the P-38A instrument panel from the RAF Lightning 1 Service Manual showing the indicator for the port engine

There were two complete M6 periscopes in brackets on the turret walls

This is an exceptional example of a Cylinder Head Temperature Indicator

2 and the C

and aircraft systems

still rotates the dial

An accelerometer with an identical face appears in the Oct 1950 flight manual of the Boeing B-47 A Stratojet Bomber (see photo)