Aircraft Equipment Directory
Introduction
This is a list of websites and webpages with information about specific aircraft equipment.
Avionics
Cameras
Compasses
Engines
Flight Computers
- Luftwaffe Data: Knemeyer Dreieckrechner (Archived)
- Load Adjuster List (Internal link)
Instruments
Ordnance
- Drop Tank List (Internal link)
- World War Two – Air Dropped Ordnance
Propellers
Radios
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
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- Ejection Seats
- 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])
- http://www.maritime.org/doc/pdf/op865-aviation-ordnance-equip-catalog-1944.pdf
- 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://www.fuselagecodes.com
- http://www.luftarchiv.de/index.htm?/flugzeugbau/vbkza.htm
- 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
- http://media.defense.gov/2010/May/25/2001330283/-1/-1/0/AFD-100525-035.pdf
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- Accidents
- Aircraft
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- 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.flugplaetze-der-luftwaffe.de
- http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/EinrichtungenLuftwaffe/Fliegerhorste/Gliederung.htm
- http://www.ukairfields.org.uk
- http://www.37trw.af.mil/About/History/USAF-Installation-Master-Plans-1953 (For higher quality version, see [11])
- http://www.owlsnest.eu/apsearch.php
- http://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1FsDs_g_UrdvBAg7ADVIG-rlsMwU&ll=40.201737579387924%2C-82.66025035&z=6
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- Clothing
- http://www.flightgear.ch
- http://www.usafpatches.com
- http://www.usafupt.com
- Bomber Boys: WWII Flight Jacket Art, book[12]
- 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.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
- http://books.google.com/books?id=7ZflMY4AqdUC&pg=PT1
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- Official Histories[a]
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- Specifications
- 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
- http://media.defense.gov/2010/Sep/21/2001330256/-1/-1/0/AFD-100921-044.pdf
- Victory Credits
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- Wrecks[b]
- 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
- http://www.aircrewremembered.com/databasesmaster.html
- http://www.forgottensquadron.com/?page_id=286
- http://www.ww2.dk/lwoffz.html
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- 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
- http://www.ecra.info/start.php?main_cat=11&sub_cat=158&access=view&exp_sub_cat=158
References
Footnotes
- ↑ An official history of the German Air Force in World War II was never produced, but there were several United States Air Force sponsored attempts. For more information see the book No Sense in Dwelling on the Past? by Ryan Shaughnessy and the Von Rhoden Collection.
- ↑ 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.