Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Is is the Raytheon Grumman TCGSTM-3500-0099WG-0000453776/L2345.023OH Too-Close-For-Missiles/Switching-To-Guns mode light on a NZ Aerospace CT-4B Airtrainer? 🤔

Hmmm. I'm not sure why it's not obvious to you all but it's clearly a baby Dalek before it grows its cheese grater outer layer...

'Someone-is-smoking-in-the-dunny'.

High Intensity Anti Collision Strobe Light. Flashes either red (for night time) or white (day time). Was fitted to the Skyhawk, Hercules, Orion and Iroquois. This one looks like it is on the underside of the Herc?

One of those aircraft lights fitted in awkward places that never seemed to work properly. red, no, red, no, red, no, red, no ... flipping a switch made little difference - only the colour but still only worked intermittently, never on the whole time. white, no, white, no, white, no ...

Anti collision light on the Bristol.

Anti-collision beacon C-130H Hercules

C130 anticol light, complete with IR strobes.

I'm going to guess its a 'rad meter' indicating the presence of radiation around the aircraft.

It's obviously a trick question, that's a correctly orientated pic of the shortest lighthouse in NZ & was used by the air force as a navigation marker.

Bristol Freighter Mk 31M NZ5903 Belly Light

Anti collision light from an Orion

This was the original design for the top of Tinky Winky, one of the Teletubbies from the British Children's TV Show. Unfortunately the flashing red light, which was meant to compliment Tinky Winky's red handbag, was too distracting when filming so was replaced with a purple triangle. However, one of the team involved in the original design, went on to join an aircraft company. He saw the potential for the design to be used as an anti-collision light on aircraft. Note: Thanks to Record Executive Craig* the Teletubbies went on to have massive music success with their 1997 hit single, "Teletubbies Say 'Eh-oh!'", which went straight to number one on the UK Singles Chart. *Not Simon Cowall's real name.