[Milsurplus] another neat item... INTERCEPT OFFICERS EQUIPMENT

[Gregory W. Moore]

Ed,
do you have a pix of the Japanese plotter?  It sounds from your 
description like a standard nav plotter used with sectional charts 
today, and is used to lay off courses from true to magnetic.
The other possibility, is it a pantograph?  That configuration was used 
with a driftmeter.
If you have a pix, send it on, will try to figure it out (I am a pilot 
as well as an avid milspec type, and have an interest in the "old" 
methods of nav (celestial, etc) just because they are there..
73 de Greg WA3IVX

ed sharpe wrote:

>another neat item that was in the incoming batch was a INTERCEPT OFFICERS EQUIPMENT  box, they appear to be navigational tools.   need to learn more about this...
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>Also  stashed in the museum we have a Japanese  WWII sort of map plotter rule protractor thing. ( wish I knew more about nav stuff...) 
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>these things are all very interesting to me but I am trying to figure out what display to put them in.
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>I suppose they would fit in a display  with computational devices more so than radar and comm?
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>Ideas?
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>Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC
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