What on earth is this…..?

Bump.

SOMEONE must kno! Oh, it may not be a Spitfire widget. Therefore the expertise percentage plunges to 10% and the interest to nil :rolleyes:

thanks for the funnies guys but seriously the chap wants to know what it is…. Really

Malcolm. If it’s not, it ought to be. 😀

If we told you we’d have to shoot you – oh what the hell we’ll tell you.

Its a ultra cosmic classified instrument to measure the enthusiasm level of the advanced air show attendee. At the first sight of the attendee’s favourite aircraft the instrument glows red and sends a signal to the organizers who immediately alert the nearest tee shirt vendor to offer the enthusiast their cut rate special embossed tee shirt.

It is called the Tee Shirt Vendometer.

😉

My best guess is that it’s either a spectroflurometer, filter flurometer, or associate instrument 😉

Moggy

An “Astro Navigator”.

Peter

Curiosity got me googling and although I didn’t find your mystery device I did establish that the company has been known as Optical Technology Devices, Inc. since 1944. Here is their website:

http://www.photonicsonline.com/storefronts/opticaltechnology.html

PS: If you click the link that says “Visit our Website” you will get a really helpful animation that tells us that they are now known as Farrand Optical Components and Instruments … and that’s all.

It looks like it might be the piece of the “Hubble” telescope they forgot to bolt on, that because it was missing, made the Hubble take those fuzzy pictures, – but I could be wrong, and maybe then it could just be a bombsight?

But I would have to agree with James,
that calling it a bombsight is the sort of thing someone would say who doesnt know what it is

where as I am calling it part of “Hubble” because I am absolutely sure I have no idea what it is – smiles

regards

Mark P

(incidently, I went to a Australian Government Emergency Complex in Victoria and found a piece of “SkyLab” mounted in the garden as a display, so this piece might turn out to be part of Skylab rather than Hubble – smiles)

Beats me.

I don’t think it’s a bombsight – it’s the sort of thing someone whould say who doesn’t know what it is (‘course, I can be proven wrong… 😀 )

Could be something for synthetic gunnery, navigation or bomb training?

dunno i received it through email as attachments wanting to know if it was a bombsight?

Sun compass??

G’day 😉