Recorder, Air Distance

An air-driven gauge counted the miles an airplane had flown, like an odometer for the sky.

Date

ca. 1922

Maker

Pioneer Instrument Co.

Place

United States of America

Materials

Aluminum Alloy, Non-Magnetic Metal Alloy, Plastic, Paint, Grease Pencil

Dimensions

3-D: 9.5 × 9.5 × 7.6cm (3 3/4 × 3 3/4 × 3 in.)

Museum

National Air and Space Museum

Credit line

Transferred from the Department of Commerce

75 mm dia,75 mm l; season miles and trip miles; air-drive

The museum's own record (Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum)

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