Belle pics

I kept telling myself I would update our tour here at the Outhouse better this year..... Unfortunately real life stuff has pretty much taken over everything..

Us getting into Seattle is a pretty big deal... For various reasons, it has not been feasible for us to go there... Fortunately we were able to make it happen this year!

-witt
 
In the first picture the man appears to be standing in the radio operator's compartment with his head out of the opening where there is normally a window on top of the fuselage aft of the top turret. Does that window slide open or is it just missing altogether? I thought it didn't open because there is normally a Browning .50 cal mounted in the center of it facing upwards. Or does just a portion of it slide open?
 
Landman said:
In the first picture the man appears to be standing in the radio operator's compartment with his head out of the opening where there is normally a window on top of the fuselage aft of the top turret. Does that window slide open or is it just missing altogether? I thought it didn't open because there is normally a Browning .50 cal mounted in the center of it facing upwards. Or does just a portion of it slide open?
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From memory I can't remember if all models were the same, but I know in G's at least the gun folds down, and the whole window slides up on rails.
I know I read later on in the war they just took the gun out of the radio room because there were a lot gunners taking off the tail!
 
Seems to me that the E, F, and early G's had a metal framed plexiglass hatch that would be slid over the opening once the flexible 50 cal. was stowed. Later G's had the 50 cal mounted in a socket in the hatch.
 
Yeah that's what got me thinking. I made a large model of a G when I was a kid and it had the .50 in what appeared to be a socket right in the middle of that window.
 
Here is a good example of how the gun would have been stowed. This is from My Gal Sal so its an example of an earlier model.

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This just sucks, she is on my doorstep and I had to go to Portland to to give my mother and father in law some love for a few days. Oh well. Perhaps next time. Thanks for the info wittpilot. Very cool you are part of this aircraft team.

Jim
 
Hey Whitt?..did the plane stop at all in northern california?....last i had looked on the trip thing,,it had a few socal spots ..but nothing for norcal...aand i never heard anyhing either.
 
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