Recent content by Multimetal

Hi all, I was reading the Luftwaffe weapons thread today and a question popped into my mind about gun camera installations. Specifically who carried them, in what planes, and when. Please will someone more knowledgeable help fill in the blanks - GB/UK commonwealth-I've seen some guncam...

I always hear it quoted that the Russians used the P-39 for tank busting and ground attack, but from every Russian source this seems false. I wonder how this bit of misinformation got started and why it's still being perpetuated?

I was just thinking that many of these would make AWESOME "what-if" modelling projects. Who's gonna build the first one? I really like the twin 190's and P-47's myself.

My parents live in Tucson and it's always fun to drive by the boneyard and see what you can spot from the road. The Pima Air and Space Museum also gives tours of the scrapyard, well worth a visit if you ever find yourself in Arizona.

Late to this party but I got an up-close look at a B-58 recently at the Pima air and space museum in Tucson. They have on in good shape on their grounds. Really an impressive aircraft and very cool to get to see one up close.

I've also seen pictures of a field-modded B-17 that had a set of twin .50's cut into the plexiglass nose. It seems like the recoil and vibration would be close to that of a single 20mm so maybe it wasn't deemed effective either.

I know that a few Luftwaffe bombers carried 20mm guns in defensive positions also, specifically the FW 200 had either an MG/FF or later a MG 151/20 mounted at the front of the gondola. I think with the FW 200 the intention was more for suppressing AA fire from ships but it was surely used as a...

WOW! :shock: I don't see how anyone could stay conscious through some of those snap rolls!

This was probably the book that started my lifelong obsession with WW2 aircraft and aviation history! It's a young adult novel set around the BOB and the Blitz, from the perspective of a group of young kids who end up finding and recovering the dorsal MG from a shot-down HE-111. I first read...

Don't know if many others have read this, but my local library had it a year or so ago and I gave it a try. It's a story from the perspective of a man who had been a tail gunner on a Lancaster, and ended up spending the last year of the war in a POW camp. It took me a while to get into but I...

Thanks again everyone for all the information, there is a lot of really interesting reading out there! 250-300 missions is an awful lot for anyone, much less a ground attack pilot, obviously these guys had a great combination of luck and skill going for them. Another question-for group...

Thank you for the replies guys, Mud Puppy that site is an incredible resource-I wish more of it was in English! Interesting to learn in the interview that you linked to that there were female gunners on IL2's, I had never realized that. I knew the stories of Litvak and others but never knew...

Hello all, I've been lurking on these forums for some time now and thought I'd finally make use of the vast knowledge of the contributors to this site-I've been trying to determine for some time if any real-life IL2 pilots made ace, and if so how common was this? I know that IL2's took heavy...