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12-13-2006, 04:18 AM
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Hey don't take me wrong. I'm not knocking it. Good post. Look it's Lancs thread so anyone can take license to doink it up. Now if CC gets mad, then we have to snap back to attention
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12-14-2006, 04:45 AM
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12-14-2006, 06:27 AM
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Country:  | This is from the first page.... I was wondering what people think gunwise we're seeing on that Lancaster tail turret ?
I thought at first the left hand guns were wrapped to protect against the cold, but it doesn't look big enough for that,,,, it looks like a single wider barreled gun ?
Is that possible, would some bright tail gunner have a sawn-off 0.5inch fitted to replace 2 303's on one side ?
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12-14-2006, 10:03 AM
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#188 | | Master of Ewes
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Look it's Lancs thread so anyone can take license to doink it up
| hey now matt i run a very tight thread around here 
and RE the lancaster guns, what you're seeing as a single gun is the two guns but because of the angle of the plane, turret and camera they look more or less in line, i can assure you there're 4x. .303s in that turret.........
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12-14-2006, 10:46 AM
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Country: | Lancs right. Remember the aft turret gun configuration is not vertical alignment. But rather aligned at an inclined plane. Like this \ /
Awsome pic though. One of my favorites. But then again, as Lanc notes. I don't count. 
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12-14-2006, 11:16 AM
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#190 | | Master of Ewes
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and one more thing matt, stop making it sound like you know about the lancaster, you'll put me out of my only job here
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12-14-2006, 11:38 AM
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12-14-2006, 03:45 PM
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#192 | | Master of Ewes
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12-15-2006, 01:57 AM
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12-15-2006, 02:12 AM
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12-15-2006, 06:40 AM
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Take a closer look, you can see the right-hand pair of barrels quite clearly, there's no angle that'd allow these to be viewable yet have one of the left hand barrels obsure it's other pair.
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