Recent content by Bill Akins

Thanks to all for the helpful info. Yes Buster_Dee, my sight does have the backup sight and it does rotate out of the way.

Google up the Dehavland vampire and see if that is it. It was tested with radials as well as the final jet engine. Could be a P61 black widow american fighter too. Bill Akins.

The B17 before the addition of the B17G models chin turret, had an 8 ft window from the front where no other gun on the B17 could engage an enemy at 12 oclock headon except for the single B17 nose gun. This was why the luftwaffe pilots learned to attack the B17 from head on, they only had to...

Top, give me a shout at [email protected] Semper fi. Bill Akins.

Thanks for writing TopY. I'm an ex marine myself. Love to hear about your aviation archaeology underwater expedition. As soon as my arm heals from recent surgery, I will be diving on a sunken B17 I have located in a lake here in Fl. Bill Akins.

Hello group. I'm Bill Akins a member of the board of directors in The Florida Aviation Historical Society. and director of The Sunken Warbird Recovery Team. I just joined and look forward to being a member here. I posted a request for any info, manuals, schematics, etc for my Sperry K4 lower...

I have a lower ball turret automatic computing gunsight from a B17 bomber in very good condition. I acquired it from a cousin of mine. The plate on the gunsight reads..."Automatic computing sight for turret (lower ball) type K4 Sperry gyroscope company Inc." I removed the...