Recent content by Paul E.

That is not a belt - it is an ammunition feed chute that connects the ammo box to the machine gun and channels the ammunition belt between the box and the gun. The disintegrating links hold the 50 cal. rounds together to form a belt that slides through the the chute. When to gun is fired the...

I think many of you don't understand is that the drawing shows the wing joint from the front. the round objects you se are .50 cal machine guns and the seemingly tubular things snaking to the right are ammo feed chutes. The angled lines are actually the joint seam, not a front views of the...

The F4F had wings that folded at an angle that caused them to lay flat along the fuselage. The detail in the drawing is showing the hinge design that causes that to happen. Quite an interesting design.

Important news! All spin stabilized projectiles tumble in the target! The reason is that for accuracy, the spin imparted by the rifling is chosen by & large by the desire to hit the target. So to hit a target at 1000 meters the spin rate is chosen based on stability of the projectile in air...

Looks like 38.214 inches to me, which seems right having seen an F4U.

I did was working at The US Army Human Engineering Labs ( then HEL) as a human factors engineer in the 80s when we did the human factors testing of all the candidates. We did a very comprehensive series of tests including man portability. I wrote the evaluation of the ergonomics of the weapon...

Excellent video. Any chance that the same producer made one for the P-38? Paul