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  • What is a "forward identification light"?

    From J.D. Baldwin@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 16 03:45:00 2017
    Saw an S-3B today at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo. It had a little red light
    on the nose that wasn't there on the "A" variant, which I flew back
    about 100 years ago. A little dilligent searching turned up a diagram
    with this light labeled "Forward identification light."

    So, what is that, exactly?
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  • From john Szalay @21:1/5 to J.D. Baldwin on Sat Apr 22 09:53:09 2017
    [email protected]d (J.D. Baldwin) wrote in news:ocupbr$a2e $[email protected]:



    Saw an S-3B today at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo. It had a little red light
    on the nose that wasn't there on the "A" variant, which I flew back
    about 100 years ago. A little dilligent searching turned up a diagram
    with this light labeled "Forward identification light."

    So, what is that, exactly?



    Wonder if it could better be called a recognition light, to be used when closing on a tanker..? or on demand from another aircraft.

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