Sight, drift

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OBJECT TYPE: aircraft/tail
DATE: 1939
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 2000.0248.001

MANUFACTURER: General Electric Co. Ltd. England
MODEL: Mk. IV
LOCATION: England

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General Information

Serial #: 142/39
Part Number: 1
Total Parts: 5
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: brass & steel; rubber eye piece; glass lenses

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 33.0 cm
Width: 13.0 cm
Height: 10.0 cm
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Aviation
Category: Aircraft instruments
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: General Electric
Country: England
State/Province: Unknown
City: Unknown

Context

Country: England
State/Province: Unknown
Period: WWII (1939-1945)/ SN suggests made in 1939
Canada: many Canadian and Canadian-trained air crew served in the RAF or in RCAF squadrons attached to RAF commands
Function: navigator uses to indicate the bearing of a sighted object to measure the degree an aircraft has drifted from desired course when flying in a cross wind in support of dead reckoning navigation/ tail drift sights took sight from an object astern of the aircraft/ provenance of this instrument is unknown
Technical: Unknown
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: lettering stamped on cylinder reads: "[crown]/A.M./REF. No. 6 B/110/142/39"; raised lettering around outside rim of eye piece reads: "KILROY'S PATENT"
Missing: appears complete
Finish: predom. black with metallic gray & silver components; light brown eye piece
Decoration: Tudor crown stamped on cylinder

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General Electric Co. Ltd. England, Sight, drift, 1939, Artifact no. 2000.0248, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/2000.0248.001/

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