The Ships and Aircraft of the United States Fleet, Fahey, War Edition 1941 F8F

The Ships and Aircraft of the United States Fleet, Fahey, War Edition 1941 F8FThis 64 page soft cover book describes the ships and aircraft in use by the United States Navy as of 1941. The book contains brief descriptions of all capital ships and major aircraft in use by the US Navy at that time. This is an original document and not a reprint. It is in very good condition, all pages are intact. The name of the original owner, a USN seaman, is written and stamped on the inside cover. Measures ~9 inches by ~6 inches.

as indicated in the small window at the 3:00 position

parallel white wires

and displays the direction on a compass card mounted at a 45 degree angle

The A-9A regulator had one dial with two gauges

"REF 6AA/624" (which may be an RCAF part number) and "CAT

The adjustment screw at 6 o'clock position moves a white indexing bracket along the perimeter (shown between 0

and of the US Navy such as the P2V Neptune and others

The appearance of red diagonal lines indicates that the wheels are not in the locked position either up or down

and some of the paint is chipped on the top surface

which was connected to the antenna base with flexible shaft cables

as well as the metal laminate on the blade's leading edge

likely from a two-seat MiG-15 UTI trainer made by the Shenyang Aircraft Factory and designated in China as the JJ-2 (from Wikipedia)