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Hey,

 

I found this instrument on one of my pics about L-410 - which was mostly commuted between Hungary and Romania, some day Bulgaria.

 

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Do you have any idea what instrument could this be?

Based on words I figured out via google translate maybe a celestial navigation system, on kinda.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

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Could be, but based on these words seem like more something else:

 

KOHTP = guide

"B3N MACCA" = earth weight

AEHb / HoyB (right next to the red light): up: daylight, down: night

Posted

Perhaps some sort of barometric instrument?

 

Actually, the "expert" settings in X-Plane where you could set the constants for earth (such as planetary mass), but in real life... the Soviets were way ahead of their time.

 

From the number of digits, possibly altimeter of some sort which measures the pressure of the atmosphere on mars and divides it by the weight of the earth and blows up seagulls to eat pudding or something... that's as far as I got.

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The daylight/night is probably for brightness.

Earth weight? That's weird.

I wonder...

 

The communists actually had a secret weapon that was hitherto unknown. They could control the weight of the planet from a civilian airliner. Special, huh?

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