Sextant, Aircraft Periscopic, MS28011-5 Vickers F-80 Shooting Star

F-80 Shooting Star

This D-7 was made by Kollsman

Some of the luminescent paint has worn from the letters on the metal labels

This is its first printing

This is a vintage Cold-War-era Outboard Wing Tank Fuel Quantity Indicator

Sextant, Aircraft Periscopic, MS28011-5 Vickers F-80 Shooting StarThis is a Cold War era Periscopic Aircraft Sextant and Case, as used by navigators in aircraft of the US Air Force such as B 36 Peacemaker, B 47 Stratojet, B 50 Superfortress, B 52 Stratofortress, and of the US Navy such as the P2V Neptune and others. The periscopic sextant was used by navigators to fix and track the position of the aircraft in flight, usually by nighttime celestial (star) readings, but also by the position of the sun in daylight. The