Controller, Magnetic Compass, General Electric, 2CA10E1, Wiley Post crash. Creator: General Electric Company.

Controller, Magnetic Compass, General Electric, 2CA10E1, Wiley Post crash. Creator: General Electric Company.

2-839-978 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Cylindrical shaped panel mounted instrument, with white luminous figures on black face. Earth induction compass. On 15 August 1935, American aviator Wiley Post was killed when his aircraft crashed on takeoff from a lagoon near Point Barrow in the Territory of Alaska.


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People Information

Creator
  1. General Electric Company: American: Manufacturing company
People Related
  1. Wiley Post: American: aviator

Medium
  1. Aluminum
  2. Coating
  3. Copper alloy
  4. Steel
  5. Wood

Picture Type
  1. Instruments-navigational
  2. Object

Category Hierarchy

Lifestyle & Leisure Transport & Travel

Science & Nature Technology & Innovation


Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 3474x5220
File Size : 53,128kb


Aliases

  1. A19370024000
  1. NASM-NASM2012-01360.txt
  1. 0990010562
  1. 2-839-978
  1. 2839978
  1. A19370024000

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