Accelerometer, G-Meter, AN-5745, Hucknall Aerodrome, Rolls-Royce Flight Test A-30 It has a test label

It has a test label dated Nov 1957

“Radio Set AN/ APN-2 is an airborne radar interrogator / responder of the "Rebecca" type that will enable an aircraft to home on ground radar beacons of the "Eureka" type such as AN/PPN-1 and AN/PPN-2and the heavier beacons

with BU AERO US NAVY embossed in very small letters on the center of its face

with the civilian version used in the Britannia and Comet airliners

as used in the C-47 Dakota Transport with a similar version used in the TBM Avenger Torpedo Bomber

Accelerometer, G-Meter, AN-5745, Hucknall Aerodrome, Rolls-Royce Flight Test A-30 It has a test labelThis instrument seems to have had a very interesting history. This Accelerometer, made by Bendix part number 3413 2D A, has a service tag from the WWII era Rolls Royce Flight Test establishment situated at Hucknall Aerodrome, home of RAF Hucknall north of Nottingham England. The Rolls Royce Flight Test unit tested new engine designs and modifications at Hucknall, including piston and jet powered engines. We might assume that this accelerometer was