Liquid compass - aircraft

Bowl-Diameter 5.3" (13.5cm) sealed white metal unit mounted in aluminium gimbals in an aluminium outer casing diameter 7.72 (19.5cm). From ACO catalogue: the two flat needles are double-pivoted and swing between two flat copper plates so that eddy-current damping is obtained. The top pivot carries an air valve which controlled a gyroscope, the gyroscope actually steering the flying bomb.

Object Details

ID: ACO0602
Type: Liquid compass - aircraft
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Unknown
Date made: 1945
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Admiralty Compass Observatory
Measurements: Overall: 205 mm; Diameter: 215 mm
Parts: Liquid compass - aircraft