Warbird Information Exchange

Hi All
Don't know if this is the right place to post this, but can anyone identify the part that is missing in the reflector assembly of an N-3A gun sight (see the red rectangle) and where I could buy it?
Cheers,
SC.

I have a N-3 head like that with the same flat, drilled plate on it. Pictures I've seen show a rectangular crash pad mounted there--rubber or leather, I'm not sure. Most often see them in cockpit pictures of AAF P-40s. Can't help you finding one--would like one for my sight too.

Jungmann

Good day,

There is in fact no part missing from your N-3 sighthead. This area of the sighthead was simply used to attach the fixing plate for a gunsight camera.

You can see such a plate in the photo below.

Note: all of this can be found in my (still far from being finished) site : http://www.aircraft-gunsights.com

Laurent

Hi Laurent,
You wouldn't have a manual for a GGS MK IV E? I've got a French Sadier-Carpentier license built one that I would like to bring back to life.

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I believe there is currently a gun camera with prism for sight use on ebay.

I'm curious about the two inspection flashlights used to illuminate..what? here

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Those aren't inspection flashlights but are an early form of cockpit lighting. They contain a fluorescent light tube and you could rotate the outer sleeve in order to vary the output. The light could be moved to also aft as a map light. As I recall there is also a UV filter to illuminate the radium instruments without allowing passing the visible light.

Later versions were smaller more common cockpit lights that had a fluorescent bulb instead of a tube with a similar rotating filter head that did the same thing; allowing variation from full white flood light to UV only for instrument/cockpit illumination.

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Hi Laurent,
I searched the Internet for a long, long time and always ended up with the same results, until I found your website. It's fairly new, isn't it? There's a Japanese website (http://www.gunsight.jp/b/english/data/sight-e-aa.htm) that has a lot of information, but your web site is way better, with lots of details, images and information.

I thought two possible things about the missing part: one was the crash pad and the other was the camera. I discarded the camera because how could 4 screws fit in three. STUPID, THERE IS PLATE for the 4 screws to fit in.

So, thank you very much for the information.
Cheers,
SC.