B-17G Cockpit Auxiliary Window F-105 Thunderchief

B-17G Cockpit Auxiliary Window F-105 ThunderchiefThis is a front left auxiliary cockpit window installed in some G model B 17's, although they could be retrofitted to other models. They could be opened inward to allow a pilot to de ice his main windscreen or, in the worst case, to see forward if the main screen was iced over. The internally facing, botton mounted handle unlocks when flipped up, and then the opened window would be affixed to the internal cockpit ceiling with the snap fit strap.

1960s and 1970s

Here is a  Rapid Response Rate of Climb / Vertical Speed Indicator

The crewman or co-pilot operated a handgrip to adjust the aim of the externally mounted searchlight

and many others

and fighters P-38 Lightning and P-61 Black Widow

This instrument appeared on the P-3 Flight Status Panel in a section called Wind Leading Edge Skin Temp

The selector enables selection of the desired track and provides to-from information

See photo of a similar antenna mounted to the fuselage of a B-24 bomber

NAS Coco Solo housed several Patrol/Patrol Bomber aircraft during its tenure

The horizon sphere rotates freely

Here is an interesting video describing how the K-13 functioned

The case has compartments which suggest that it might have once contained additional lenses