Spotlight Animator, US Navy, Aviator Training Device, NAS Quonset Point BT-14 Here is the Induction Compass

Here is the Induction Compass (Directional) Indicator for the Sperry Gyrosyn Compass system used in a number of Cold-War-era US Military aircraft such as the B-52 Stratofortress

5 inches diameter and ~1

Meausures ~2 inches diameter and ~5 inches long

Measures ~4

Spotlight Animator, US Navy, Aviator Training Device, NAS Quonset Point BT-14 Here is the Induction CompassHere is an unusual training device, a Spotlight Animator, made by the Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Company (which made gas meters, of all things) for and used by the US Naval Aviation Training Division by the Special Devices Section. According to our friends at Wikipedia: "In April 1941 when then Commander Luis de Florez became head of the new Special Devices Desk in the Engineering Division of the Navys Bureau of Aeronautics (BuAer). De Florez