MrSmoothie
Airman
- 68
- Jan 21, 2019
Can anybody confirm the diameter of the early type cooling jacket (slots instead of holes) on the .30 cal Brownings mounted in the wings of the AVG's Hawk 81's? I found the attached drawing -- when scaled for the 1/8th scale model I'm working on, the resulting 0.25" diameter barrels look large as compared to photos. This made me wonder if aircraft MG's may have had a different cooling jacket of smaller diameter. It might just be an optical illusion.