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Code 7734
EUR 1000.00
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1700241664Code 7734 Aviation CompassBrass and aluminum aeronautical compass complete with azimuth circle, supplied to US Army Air Force aircraft during the Second World War. Good condition and working. Compass diameter 16.5 cm – 6.5 inches, height 11 cm – 4.3 inches. The compass is made up of a cylindrical brass container, called a mortar, on the bottom of which is fixed a hard metal stem, on which the wind rose is placed, suitably constrained, so that the zero coincides with the magnetic polarity. To reduce friction to a minimum, the mortar is filled with a low freezing point liquid, which also has the purpose of quickly dampening any oscillations of the complex and closed at the top by a sturdy protective glass.
The first actual airplane saw the light of day in 1903, when the Wright brothers managed to fly - and keep in the air for 12 seconds - a kind of glider equipped with a 16 horsepower engine at Kill Devil Hill in North Carolina, USA. But the father of aviation is considered, by a part of the scientific and aeronautical community, to be Alberto Santos-Dumont, who during a flight held on 12 November 1906, managed to autonomously make a heavier-than-air device take off (the Wright brothers had instead used a sort of catapult to take off). The first Italian airplane was built by Aristide Faccioli in 1908.
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Code 7734 Aviation Compass
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