P-80A Shooting Star Jet Fighter Original Lockheed Development Documents 1944 Oscar Fighter Here is an Flight Helmet

Here is an Flight Helmet made by Gentex

General Electric Type DJ11 Model 8DJ11PB

The knobs are quite stiff and need some TLC

the altimeter operates as a normal barometric pressure altimeter

used to measure and indicate to the pilot the altitude over the terrain during flight

P-80A Shooting Star Jet Fighter Original Lockheed Development Documents 1944 Oscar Fighter Here is an Flight HelmetThis is a set of original engineering documents from the development of the US Air Force Lockheed P 80 Shooting Star, the first jet propelled fighter of the USAF to see combat. This set of documents came to AeroAntique from the estate of Lockheed aeronautical engineer R. A. Mundhenk who worked on secret skunkworks projects with C. L."Kelly" Johnson. Mundhenk was a Weight Engineer in the Special Projects Group during 1944 while working on the XP 80A