Radio Compass Indicator, I-82-A, of SCR-280-A & AN/ARN-7 System, Signal Corps US Army Allison F4U-5N Corsair

F4U-5N Corsair

Measures 5

Setting Knob

positioned at the 15 o’clock numeral

It consists of a white plastic planisphere with the northern sky on one side and the southern on the other that shows all the stars in the American and the British Air Almanacs

Radio Compass Indicator, I-82-A, of SCR-280-A & AN/ARN-7 System, Signal Corps US Army Allison F4U-5N CorsairThe Navigator's Radio Compass Indicator, I 82 A, was a component of the SCR 280 A and the AN ARN 7 Radio Compass System. These systems were used in versions of the WWII era Air Corps US Army Douglas C 47 Skytrain transport, according to the US Air Service Command's Airborne Radio Equipment Handbook dated 1943, and in US Army Air Force bombers B 17, B 24, B 25, and B 26. The radio compass, receiving ground signal from a selected transmitter via its