Aircraft Equipment Directory
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Introduction
This is a list of websites and webpages with information about specific aircraft equipment.
Avionics
Cameras
- American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing: A History of Military Mapping
- American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing: Development of Aerial Camera Stabilization and Its Effect on Photogrammetry and Photo Interpretation
- Camera Wiki: Aerial Camera
Compasses
Engines
Flight Computers
- Luftwaffe Data: Knemeyer Dreieckrechner (Archived)
- Load Adjuster List (Internal link)
Instruments
- AeroAntique
- Aircraft Gunsights
- Cockpit Clocks
- Deutsche Luftwaffe: Gerätekatalog 1
- Funatsu Aviation Instruments Museum
- Relojes Originales de Avion
Ordnance
- Drop Tank List (Internal link)
- World War Two – Air Dropped Ordnance
Propellers
- Not Plane Jane
- Polish Propellers
- Propeller Listing
- Sensenich: Sensenich Support Documentation
- Wooden Propellers
Radios
- A Users Guide to Aircraft Radio Corporation Receivers (Transcribed)
- AAF Radio
- Airborne Radio Equipment Handbook
- Radio Boulevard: Airborne Radio Communications Gear & Airborne Radio Direction Finding-Navigation Equipment
Sextants
To Do
To be Organized
- http://csusap.csu.edu.au/~dspennem/ReportStore/GSAP_AN_N6A_Walkaround.pdf (Find menu page)
- http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?fq=online_media_type%3A%22Images%22&fq=topic%3A%22Avionics%22
- http://www.glennsmuseum.com/bombsights/bombsights.html
- http://www.nordenbombsightsbymoore.com
- http://www.ww2wings.com
- http://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/8266
- http://www.quarryhs.co.uk
- http://users.telenet.be/Emmanuel.Gustin
- http://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA529948
- http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006542034
- http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001526585
- http://www.loc.gov/item/2015460882
- http://www.loc.gov/item/2015490939
- http://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/tr/AD0895891
- http://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/tr/AD0895892
- http://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/tr/AD0895893
- http://www.conradwings.com
- http://www.sliderulemuseum.com/Aerospace.htm
- http://web.archive.org/web/20210812220756/http://www.aeroclocks.com
- http://www.collinsradio.org/archives/1959_Catalog/Collins_1959_Aviation.pdf
- http://www.med-dept.com/medical-kits-contents/kits-of-military-aircraft
- http://archive.org/details/earlyaircraftarm00wood_0
- http://www.osgalleries.org/journal/pdf_files/10.1/V10.1P34.pdf
- http://www.bulletpicker.com/pdf/USNBD%20-%20US%20Bombs%20and%20Fuzes,%20Pyrotechnics.pdf
- http://robroy.dyndns.info/targetkites
- http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ref/NightFighterRadars/index.html
- http://app.aircorpslibrary.com/document/viewer/sept9adigjwal6?p=188
- http://www.fer3.com/arc/imgx/CP-300-U-and-2102-D-Star-Finders.pdf
- http://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Old-Radio-Groups/Radio-Age-Mid-Atlantic/Radio-Age-2005-11.pdf
- http://www.veteran-voices.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/WWII-US-Army-Air-Forces-Rank-Insignia.pdf
- http://www.wwiisurvivalequipment.com
- http://www.hangarthirteen.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/9-1980-Bombs-for-Aircraft.pdf
- British Aircraft Armament: RAF Gun Turrets from 1914 to the Present Day, book
- British Aircraft Armament: RAF Guns and Gunsights from 1914 to the Present Day, book
- The Legendary Norden Bombsight, book
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- http://www.kenmoreairharbor.com/models.html
- Engines
- R-2800: Pratt & Whitney's Dependable Masterpiece, book
- R-4360: Pratt & Whitney's Major Miracle, book
- Vee's for Victory: The Story of the Allison V-1710 Aircraft Engine, 1929-1948, book
- The Secret Horsepower Race: Western Front Fighter Engine Development, book
- Catalogs and Stock Lists
- http://www.aircorpslibrary.com/library-documents/general/aso
- Index of Army Aeronautical Equipment with Navy Equivalents[1]
- Graphic Survey of Radio and Radar Equipment Used by the Army Air Forces[2]
- Airborne Radio Equipment Handbook[3]
- Antenna Catalog: Volume IV; Aircraft Antennas[4]
- Signal Communication Equipment Directory: Radio Communication Equipment[5]
- http://app.aircorpslibrary.com/document/viewer/a17pejwis18 (see also [6])
- Ordnance
- http://www.bulletpicker.com/pdf/USNBD-US-Bombs-and-Fuzes-Pyrotechnics.pdf (see also [7])
- http://www.hangarthirteen.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/9-1980-Bombs-for-Aircraft.pdf
- http://www.bulletpicker.com/pdf/OP-1280-1955.pdf
- http://www.bulletpicker.com/pdf/OP-2216-1960.pdf
- http://www.archive.org/details/TM91325200BombsAndBombComponents
- Cross Reference Charts
To be Listed Separately
- http://m-selig.ae.illinois.edu/ads/aircraft.html
- http://www.fuselagecodes.com
- http://www.luftarchiv.de/index.htm?/flugzeugbau/vbkza.htm
- http://www.usafupt.com
- http://www.usaaf-noseart.co.uk
- http://www.alternatewars.com/WW2/NACS_WW2/NACS-WW2_Cover.htm
- http://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA542518
- http://web.archive.org/web/20141025024626/http://www.luftwaffe-experten.org/stammkennzeichen.html
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- Accidents
- Airports
- https://web.archive.org/web/20161110100614/http://www.airfieldsdatabase.com
- http://www.afhra.af.mil/Portals/16/documents/Timelines/World%20War%20II/usaaf_european_airfields.pdf
- http://www.afhra.af.mil/Portals/16/documents/Timelines/World%20War%20II/usaaf_bases_in_united_kingdom.pdf
- http://www.afhra.af.mil/Portals/16/documents/Timelines/Korea/USAFKSites.pdf
- http://www.airfields-freeman.com
- http://www.forgottenairfields.com
- http://www.mil-airfields.de
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210824162301/https://www.airforcebase.net
- http://www.forgottensquadron.com/?page_id=290
- https://web.archive.org/web/20020329073940/http://www.controltowers.co.uk
- http://www.abct.org.uk/airfields/airfield-finder
- http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/view/search?q=USAF+Installations+Master+Plans
- http://www.flugplaetze-der-luftwaffe.de
- http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/EinrichtungenLuftwaffe/Fliegerhorste/Gliederung.htm
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- Clothing
- http://www.flightgear.ch
- Bomber Boys: WWII Flight Jacket Art, book[11]
- Combat Flying Clothing, book
- Combat Flying Equipment, book
- Gear Up!: Flight Clothing & Equipment of USAAF Airmen in WWII, book
- Type A-2 Jacket, Flight Jacket Identification Manual, book
- U.S. Naval Aviation Flying Clothing and Gear, book
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- Definitive Books
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- Documents
- http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.org
- http://www.alternatewars.com/SAC/SAC.htm, http://www.generalstaff.org/CDA/Aircraft.htm
- http://www.aahs-online.org/resources/navy_sac.php
- http://www.escape-maps.com
- http://www.silkmaps.com
- http://www.ww2nar-pac.com/research/targets
- http://www.loc.gov/item/2009582531
- http://www.shortsnorter.org
- http://www.timetableimages.com
- http://www.departedflights.com
- http://www.airlinesafetycards.be/Safety%20cards.htm
- http://www.airticketshistory.com
- http://www.airsicknessbags.com
- http://www.enginehistory.org/References/ManualIndex/ManualIndex.shtml
- https://web.archive.org/web/20140326040930/http://www.psywar.org/leaflets.php
- https://web.archive.org/web/20021225104000/http://members.home.nl/ww2propaganda/index.html
- http://www.skytamer.com/3.1.htm
- Aircraft Record Cards of the United States Air Force: How to Read the Codes, book
- Markings
- http://www.gmodelart.com/2020/04/plane-colors-and-camouflage-wwii-us.html
- http://www.aircorpsart.com/blog/WWII-color-codes
- http://web.archive.org/web/20030715154304/http://www.armyairforces.com/tails.asp
- http://web.archive.org/web/20031202231130/http://www.armyairforces.com/tails-24.asp
- http://web.archive.org/web/20030608043534/http://www.armyairforces.com/tails-29.asp
- http://www.303rdbg.com/8af-markings.html
- http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/naval-aviation-history/aircraft-markings.html
- http://www.cybermodeler.com/color/usn_preww2.shtml
- http://hazy.home.xs4all.nl/Planes/T3165%20Mission%20Belle/Books%20and%20Magazines/Battle%20Colors%201%20-%20Insignia%20and%20Aircraft%20Markings%20of%20the%20Eighth%20Air%20Force%20in%20World%20War%20II.pdf
- http://www.emmasplanes.com/index.php/paints
- http://www.ipmsstockholm.se/home/interior-colours-of-us-aircraft-1941-45-part-i
- http://arcus-hobby.store/blogs/historical-reference/aircraft-colors-and-camouflage-of-the-us-army-air-force
- http://www.cybermodeler.com/resource6.shtml
- https://web.archive.org/web/20181224143727/jpr-guide.tripod.com/index.html
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- Units
- http://media.defense.gov/2010/Dec/02/2001329899/-1/-1/0/AFD-101202-002.pdf
- http://www.usafunithistory.com
- http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/naval-aviation-history/dictionary-of-american-naval-aviation-squadrons-volume-1.html
- http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/naval-aviation-history/dictionary-of-american-naval-aviation-squadrons-volume-2.html
- http://media.defense.gov/2010/Sep/21/2001330257/-1/-1/0/combat_wings.pdf
- Victory Credits
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- Wrecks[a]
- http://www.aircraftwrecks.com
- http://www.aircraftarchaeology.com
- http://www.aviationarchaeology.com
- http://web.archive.org/web/20071009114627/http://www.coloradoaviationarchaeology.org or http://web.archive.org/web/20120308203352/http://www.coloradoaviationarchaeology.com
- http://web.archive.org/web/20100529112609/http://www.lostflights.org
- http://www.mewreckchasers.com
- http://web.archive.org/web/20190411051328/http://www.okwreckchasing.org
- http://www.pacificwrecks.com
- http://www.projectrecover.org
- http://www.thexhunters.com
- http://www.tighar.org
- http://web.archive.org/web/20131102082444/http://www.warbirdcrash.com
- http://www.wreckchasing.com
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To be Potentially Added
- http://issuu.com/vintageeaa/docs/va-vol-38-no-3-march-2010 (see page 26)
- http://designation-systems.net/usmilav/electronics.html
- http://www.radionerds.com/index.php/Chesson-Downs
- http://www.amazon.com/dp/3941437305
- http://www.amazon.com/dp/0955426839
- http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/101744513
- http://www.enginehistory.org/References/UKNA/2Engines1921-39AIR.htm
- http://www.enginehistory.org/reference.shtml
- http://www.rolls-royce.com/~/media/Files/R/Rolls-Royce/documents/about/heritage-trust-book-list-dec-2018.pdf
- http://web.archive.org/web/20200125083739/http://www.wiki.luftwaffedata.co.uk
- http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de
- People
- Navigation Systems
Non-Aviation References
- http://www.usww2uniforms.com
- http://www.med-dept.com
- https://web.archive.org/web/20201128105721/http://www.usarmydatadepot.com
- http://www.qmgrs.com
- http://www.archive.org/details/herberbookercollection
- http://www.radionerds.com
- http://www.bulletpicker.com
- http://members.cartridgecollectors.org/pages/home.php
- http://www.inert-ord.net
- http://www.angelfire.com/md2/patches/index.html
- http://wing.chez-alice.fr
- http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002138447
References
Footnotes
- ↑ The pages 241–243 in the bibliography of the book Hidden Warbirds II by Nicholas A. Veronico were a partial inspiration for this section as well as the source of many of the entries in it.