Automatic Pilot E-6 Turn and Pitch Control Panel Type A-8 Sally Bomber Flipping the toggle marked "Contactor"

Flipping the toggle marked "Contactor" to "In" connects the aircraft radio to the contactor

as used across many different aircraft of the Japanese Army

dive bombers A-35 Vengeance and A-36 Apache

P5M Mariner

The illuminating lamp is present under the center top screw

Automatic Pilot E-6 Turn and Pitch Control Panel Type A-8 Sally Bomber Flipping the toggle marked "Contactor"This is a very rare example of the Turn and Pitch Control Panel Type A 8 of the E 6 Automatic Pilot System as used in the US Air Force Cold War era Convair B 36 Peacemaker Strategic Bomber and the Boeing B 50 Superfortress Bomber (essentially an upgraded B 29). See two pages from the B 36 flight manual and one from the B 50 flight manual with images of this panel. This panel appeared in the main center console between the aircraft commander (pilot)