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Close(r), but no sigar.
Het onderdeel steekt, net als een "MAD boom" aan de achterkant van de romp bij de staart naar achter. De foto is in, en de registratie is in Afrika.
long shot, nooit geschoten is altijd mis, I guess:
1. Twee (deux) buizen in een B-17G.
2. B-17G F-BEEA 44-85643, foto toevallig gemaakt in september 1980 te Rotterdam?
3. Instituit Geographique National
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/ollieswebspace/b17 F-BEEA.htm
1- Inderdaad 2 buizen, maar waarvoor???
2- B17 is goed, of het een G betreft weet ik niet, i.e.g. niet de F-BEEA
3- nee
Greetz,
TD
" Another scheme grew out of an Eighth Air Force request for an upward-firing rocket launcher to protect B-17 formations from planes bombing them from above. The development known by the code name SUNFLOWER SEED, was worked out in England, using a special British rocket, and a B-17 so equipped was flown to the United States for study. At the same time technicians at Wright Field evolved a somewhat similar vertical-firing installation using the American M8 rocket; this was tested at both Aberdeen and Eglin Field during the spring of 1944. The rockets behaved as the designers hoped, but the low velocity of the projectiles and the lack of flexibility in aiming them led to the conclusion that neither SUNFLOWER SEED nor its American variant would serve the intended purpose. And by September 1944, with the cessation of overhead bombing attacks against Allied bomber formations, tactical need for such a weapon disappeared. Results generally similar to those obtained with the vertical-firing rocket launchers followed when test data were assembled on a rearward-firing breech-loading 4.5 inch rocket launcher mounted in a B-17 b
long shot, nooit geschoten is altijd mis, I guess:
1. Twee (deux) buizen in een B-17G.
2. B-17G F-BEEA 44-85643, foto toevallig gemaakt in september 1980 te Rotterdam?
3. Instituit Geographique National
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/ollieswebspace/b17 F-BEEA.htm