[KC Jones]

KC,

I'm looking for the actual reticle illustrated, what the reflection looked like on the reflector plate, what the pilot would see to aim with. Your material is fascinating, this is the kind of stuff I could spend days just soaking up. The slip ball illustration is perfect too. That's why I love it up near the sight on the P-51.

I think the N9 may have had just the reticle type we are using now. It's the one which is they have illustrated in your The N-9 Reflector Gunsight manual.

What part of Virginia are you living? We're practically neighbors.

Sorry Cat for not responding sooner. Been a hard night's day (old Beatles song). I live in Northern Virginia (not to be confused with the official Commonwealth of Virginia) [at least NOVA thinks they're a seperate state - phooeey !]

Nope, the book don't show any reticles used, just the gunsight devices themselves.

It is a fascinating book that is 632 pages, called "The Great Book Of World War II Airplanes" compiled by Rikyu Watanabe (including 24 Fold-Out Panels Suitable for Framing). Its one big hummer. The chapters on individual airplanes are authored by different folks. I didn't count how many warbirds are in there but with 632 pages, there's a lot.

Sometimes it shows things like the gunsights, drawings of machine guns, superchargers, different ammunitions, all authentic skins in colors, and always a numbered cut-away of the fuselage (which I find interesting in its details). It weighs about 3-4 lbs.

So no, no reticles.

But, did look up the P-38 and find that it used two different gunsights; the N-3 and the L-3. It just shows the device itself tho.

I'll show it here but I got questions for you about the N-9 and K-14. So don't go away.



Okay, with the K-14 the instructions for using are:

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