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Tankerace -> RE: Name This...(142) (8/11/2004 1:49:34 AM)
OOpsie.... at that angle the plane looked a LOT smaller than a Lib. [:D]

rogueusmc -> RE: Name This...(142) (8/11/2004 4:24:39 AM)
Looks like ya did good this time Brady...[:D]

DrewMatrix -> RE: Name This...(142) (8/11/2004 6:49:28 AM)
Ground Clearance of belly turret on B-24 [image]local://upfiles/13010/Ig109507733.jpg[/image]

Brady -> RE: Name This...(142) (8/11/2004 7:10:11 AM)
Liberator, it is[:)] RAAF Liberator, Location India, Circa 1945. ......................... "Looks like ya did good this time Brady... " Thanks[:)]

ATCSMike -> RE: Name This...(142) (8/11/2004 9:18:12 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Brady ??? B24 Mike [sm=party-smiley-012.gif]

Belisarius -> RE: Name This...(142) (8/11/2004 12:00:51 PM)
Takeoffs must have been an interesting experience for the belly gunner! [X(]

rogueusmc -> RE: Name This...(142) (8/11/2004 4:47:54 PM)
Take-offs?!?!?! What about the landings?!?!?!

Cap Mandrake -> RE: Name This...(142) (8/11/2004 4:53:13 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: rogueusmc Take-offs?!?!?! What about the landings?!?!?! Useful in bad weather though" Belly Gunner: "Ok...twenty five feet on centerline.....twenty.....fifteen....ten...eight, seven, six ,five, four, down a bit ....." Pilot: "Damn! I HATE when that happens"

Arnir -> RE: Name This...(142) (8/11/2004 4:56:17 PM)
If I'm not mistaken, the B24, unlike the B17, retracted the belly turret inside the aircraft for takeoffs and landings.

DrewMatrix -> RE: Name This...(142) (8/11/2004 5:19:49 PM)
quote: retracted the belly turret Or at least retracted the belly turret gunner!

drw61 -> RE: Name This...(142) (8/11/2004 5:25:21 PM)
I think this is a B-24, the tail is correct, but it looks smaller than I would have guessed. The turret had to retract; the B-24 had a nose wheel so an extended turret would be acting like a tail wheel on takeoffs and landings.

Simon Wagstaff -> RE: Name This...(142) (8/11/2004 6:50:17 PM)
Check http://cybermodeler.com/aircraft/b-24/images/caf_lb-30-04.jpg, the angle of the photo is almost exactly the same.

gunnergoz -> RE: Name This...(142) (8/11/2004 7:39:12 PM)
The B24 ventral (belly) turret did retract for takeoff and landing. The plane was still so tail-heavy that it had a sturdy tailskid anyway. Failures to retract were rare but I seem to recall at least one belly gunner killed upon an emergency landing because he couldn't get out...but that might have been in a B-17 with the ball stuck horizontal (where the gunner can't get out). Postwar studies showed the belly turret gunners were statistically the least likely to be KIA, possibly because it was pretty well armored in the back half that the gunner lay upon, and the big round window the aimed and looked through was "bulletproof" lexan.

I Earl -> RE: Name This...(142) (8/11/2004 7:47:55 PM)
Looks to me like a very early picture of Michael Schumacher, the F1 driver or his grand father.

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