Spotlight Animator, US Navy, Aviator Training Device, NAS Quonset Point BT-14 This F-1A was made by

This F-1A was made by Kollsman

see image of instrument panel from its flight manual

The face is embossed BU AERO US NAVY (i

It covers instruments

5 inches diameter and ~1

Spotlight Animator, US Navy, Aviator Training Device, NAS Quonset Point BT-14 This F-1A was made byHere is an unusual training device, a Spotlight Animator, made by the Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Company (which made gas meters, of all things) for and used by the US Naval Aviation Training Division by the Special Devices Section. According to our friends at Wikipedia: "In April 1941 when then Commander Luis de Florez became head of the new Special Devices Desk in the Engineering Division of the Navys Bureau of Aeronautics (BuAer). De Florez