Wanna pull your hair out?

[nhbenz]

Wanna' pull your hair out?

I've done google searches of every combination of words on this 3" x5" plaque. It all points to an an experimental aircraft put together during WWII. The parts that aren't completely visible (due to my poor photo) are: serial no 29 (what could possibly have a serial # that low!?) and "special devices division" is what the bottom line reads.

 

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[willie d]

Re: Wanna' pull your hair out?

Maybe it came off a aircraft specially made to be used as target practice on a gunnery range? I dunno

 

[Zephyr]

Re: Wanna' pull your hair out?

It could be from a Mk 6 Lockheed Hudson (450 produced, though these were Lend Leased to Britain), or most likely a T-6 Texan (which was used as a training/gunnery plane.)

 

[Angelo]

Re: Wanna' pull your hair out?

NH, in your search did you come across this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAWCTSD

If not, from there you can go to NAWCTSD for a ton of info on the net.

Tony

 

[Rmeav8r]

Re: Wanna' pull your hair out?

I'm would say that it is off a training device rather than an aircraft. An aircraft, particularly a Navy aircraft will have a Bureau number rather/in addition to a serial number. Also, an aircraft training device would most likely been a Link trainer, the type used almost exclusively until the early 60's. If it was a gunnery trainer it could have been any of many types. Below is a gunnery trainer that used a film screen.

 

[EdleBrock]

Re: Wanna' pull your hair out?

These guys might be able to help you:

http://www.militarymuseum.org/NvPosts.html

They reference both "Bureau of Ordnance" and "Bureau of Areonautics Special Devices Division".

Good luck.

Jim

 

[EdleBrock]

Re: Wanna' pull your hair out?

Here's another interesting bit:

http://bss.sfsu.edu/fischer/ir 360/Readings/Skyhook.htm

A Remarkable Inventor

Robert Edison Fulton, Jr., a talented inventor,...

Following the outbreak of World War II in Europe in 1939, Fulton began work on an aerial gunnery trainer. He developed a static device that used films to simulate aerial combat.

Fulton demonstrated his trainer in May 1942 to Cdr. Luis de Florez, who was in the process of establishing a Special Devices Division for the Navy. De Florez endorsed Fulton's trainer and provided developmental funds. Eventually, the Navy ordered 500 trainers at a cost of $6 million. Together with a gunnery manual written by Fulton, the trainer became the Navy's primary simulator for teaching air-to-air marksmanship.(4)

 

[geo4472]

Re: Wanna' pull your hair out?

the mark 6 was a nuclear bomb the mk-6 mod 3 might have been a practice bomb for training

 

[nhbenz]

Re: Wanna' pull your hair out?

Thanks for the input everyone. I appreciate the info, links and contact suggestions.