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03-07-2005, 04:30 PM
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#511 | | the old Sage
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Country:  | lanc remember when I quoted on German nf vets message about the Sm installation and attack ?
He would wait for the lancaster in this cast to stop the corkscrew as he was below looking up and followed the lanc through manuvers till the lanc came out of the screw into a flat pattern and then blasted with his 2cm upward guns between the wing root and inboard engine or between two of the engines on one wing with glimmspur-faint tracer and phosphor shells | 
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03-07-2005, 04:42 PM
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#512 | | Senior Member
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Country: | Thanks Eric and all.
I would agree that bomber Comand did remove venteral guns from Lancs and Halifax in favor of he H2S. Also they would have been very helpful I think. 
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03-07-2005, 04:51 PM
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#513 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | Definitely, why not get the bombers bak for another raid. Incidentally some Hallibags had a ventral .303 late in the war
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03-08-2005, 11:23 AM
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#514 | | Konfused with a 'K'
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Country:  | Instead of a manually aimed gun, why not just have a couple of fixed .303's pointing down at an angle? Surely this would have saved space?
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03-08-2005, 11:34 AM
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#515 | | Senior Member
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| Fixed guns would have been ineffective as the nf could simply stay outside thier arc of fire. But if the flexible mount had been (for eample, just foward of the bombay (i.e under the cockpit), it would have covered most angles. In fact, it would have made more sense to remove the nose turret (of little use on a nightbomber) and fit a rearward-firing chin mount like the one on the Blenheim IV/V.
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03-08-2005, 11:47 AM
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#516 | | Banned
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| BT, the bomb bay ended at the front of the cockpit on the Lanc. Also the turret was above the bomb aimers postion. | |
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03-08-2005, 11:54 AM
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03-08-2005, 12:38 PM
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#518 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | yeah there's no way you'll get a ventral position in the nose of the lanc, there's only just enough space as it is.............
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03-08-2005, 12:45 PM
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#519 | | Senior Member
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Country: | Don't worry BT, you make more sense than the Lanc does normally
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03-08-2005, 12:47 PM
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#520 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | as much as i want to argue that point, i can't......
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03-08-2005, 12:49 PM
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Country: | Sorry Lanc, I was a bit harsh
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03-08-2005, 10:30 PM
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#522 | | Hairy one of Old Judea
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